{"id":974,"date":"2017-06-01T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/?p=974"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:04:06","slug":"becoming-a-stepparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/becoming-a-stepparent\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Stepparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming a parent by marrying someone with kids or blending families can be a fulfilling and rewarding experience. If you&#8217;ve never had kids, you&#8217;ll get the opportunity to help to shape her or his character and share your life with a younger person. If you have kids, you&#8217;ll offer them more opportunities to establish a special bond that only siblings can have and to build relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Your new family members may get along without a hitch, in some cases, but other times you can expect difficulties along the way. Figuring out your role as a parent, may lead to confusion or even conflict between your partner and you, your partner&#8217;s ex-husband or ex-wife and their kids.<\/p>\n<p>There is no foolproof formula for creating the \u201cperfect&#8221; family, because every family has its own dynamics, it&#8217;s important to approach this new situation with understanding for the feelings of those involved and patience.<\/p>\n<p>From time to time, all parents face difficulties. When you&#8217;re a stepparent, those obstacles are compounded by the fact that you are not the birth parent and this can open up power struggles within the kids, your partner, your partner&#8217;s ex, or even your family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/wp\/..\/sites\/fksg\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-21-at-14.48.43.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The initial role of a stepparent is that you are another caring adult in a child&#8217;s life, similar to a mentor or loving family member. You might wonder what you&#8217;re doing wrong, if your kids or your new stepchild doesn&#8217;t warm up to you as quickly as you&#8217;d like, and you may desire closer bond right away, be patient, relationships need time to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Try not to rush into things and start out slow. Kids can tell when adults are being insincere or fake, so let things develop naturally. You can develop a more meaningful, deeper relationship with your stepchildren, over time, which necessarily doesn&#8217;t have to resemble the one they share with their birth parents.<\/p>\n<p>The transition into step parenting may affect other factors, like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How old the kids are?<\/strong> When it comes to forming and adjusting new relationships, generally speaking, younger kids have an easier time than older kids.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How long you&#8217;ve known them?<\/strong> Usually, the better relationship, the longer you know the kids, in most cases having a history together makes the transition a little smoother.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How long you dated the parent before marriage?<\/strong> If you don&#8217;t rush into the relationship with the adult, kids have a good sense are you in this for the long haul.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How well the parent you marry gets along with the ex-spouse?<\/strong> Open communication and minimal conflict between ex-partners can make a big difference regarding how easily kids accept you as their stepparent. When adults keep negative comments out of earshot, is much easier for kids to transition to new living arrangements.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How much time the kids spend with you?<\/strong> Trying to bond with kids every other weekend, can be difficult way to make friends with your new step kids, if they want quality time with a birth parent they don&#8217;t see as often as they&#8217;d like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember to put their needs first: If your step kids want time with their birth parent, they should get it. When times get tough, however, putting kids&#8217; needs first can help you make good decisions and smooth the path to a better relationship in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming a parent by marrying someone with kids or blending families can be a fulfilling and rewarding experience. If you&#8217;ve never had kids, you&#8217;ll get the opportunity to help to shape her or his character and share your life with a younger person. If you have kids, you&#8217;ll offer them more opportunities to establish a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/becoming-a-stepparent\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Becoming a Stepparent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[425,426,560,842,847],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-families","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-step-kids","tag-stepparent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}