Category: Step-Dad’s Handbook

I’ve been a step dad for close to a quarter century now.  (Sounds like a long time, doesn’t it, as opposed to “24 years”?)  One of the most valuable aspects of being a husband and father in in a blended family is “relationship”. Merriam-Webster defines “relationship” this way: “the relation connecting or binding participants in…

My wife and I have been married for over 20 years. When we got married, with one “I do”, I became the parent of two boys and a dog…instant family. The boys were 17 and 6 years old. I had listened to some James Dobson’s Focus On the Family broadcasts on raising kids and thought…

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