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Blended Families & Young Children: Utmost Advice for Step Parenting Problems

Blended Families & Young Children: Utmost Advice for Step Parenting Problems

When couples bring children from prior relationships into their new family unit, they’ve officially embarked on the blended family journey. As wonderful as it is to bring everyone together. It can prove to be quite challenging for step parenting issues as well as for children.  Moms, specifically, experience blended family life from a unique perspective. Raising young children in a blended family unit is more challenging than we’d like to admit. But an honest conversation about some challenges of step parenting and tips on how to overcome them is just what we need to keep moving forward. Read on more rules for step parenting about how to handle the unique challenges of raising young children in a blended family. 1. It All Starts With a Healthy Relationship With Your Partner …

For Father’s Day Be Prepared to Travel Safely

For Father’s Day Be Prepared to Travel Safely

Even as young men dads are pre-programmed to be organized and adaptable. Is it any wonder the Boy Scout motto is “Be Prepared” to travel for father’s day? Our fathers deserve great reverence and respect and there is no better day to demonstrate those feelings than on Father’s Day, which falls on June 20th this year. Children look to their fathers to help them find their wings and fly. While instinctively it is mothers who try to keep their children free from harm, it is the dads who say – it’s okay to get a little bit dirty. And there is nothing more wonderful than boys who always look up to their daddy. A father’s bond with his children instills a sense of adventure, while even just the sound of …

A New Parent’s Guide to Avoiding Back Pain

A New Parent’s Guide to Avoiding Back Pain

Caring for a new baby is hard: between feeding and choosing the diapers for new baby’s, there’s little time for parents to rest. Everyone’s getting older, as well. The average age of new mothers in the U.S. is now 26 years (up from 23 in 1994). And the average age of new mothers in some other developed countries reaches up to 30 years and beyond. New fathers in the U.S. are even older, with a median age of 31 years. While a few years might not seem like a big deal, those years contribute to the normal wear and tear of the body. Especially the spine making back pain a very real and very common ailment for new parents in populations around the world. Keep reading to learn how new …

5 Ways to Make Time For Yourself as a Working Mom

5 Ways to Make Time For Yourself as a Working Mom

They say that moms are superheroes and one can’t deny that being a fact. Consider the moms who are slaying at being moms as well as career-women—they deserve amazing recognition for what they do. And good caring mom must have these qualities. However, it’s easy for you to burn out if you’re working hard at a job you love and coming back to your children and making sure they’re happy and healthy. In everything you do, it’s important that as a working mom, you don’t forget about you. How can you make time for you as working mom, despite everything that needs to be done? Here are some tips to make it easy to remember the things you need: So, stay with us. I think that BarBend’s article on Going …

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