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Creating Good-Enough Holidays with Step-teens
by Peter Gerlach
". . . . As your holiday experiences accumulate over the years, the awkwardness of having a stepfamily will begin to fade. Make creating "good-enough" holidays your goal together instead of trying to re-create that "perfect' holiday you once shared with your former biofamily (or wished you did). . . ."
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Stepfamilies and Holidays
by Judy Osborne
"Holidays are like stepfamilies - a little fantasy, a little pretending, some panic and the new reality that we create. The public notion is that the holiday season is peaceful, loving and joyous. And if it's not peaceful, loving and joyous, we end up thinking, 'There must be something wrong with me.'
"Because stepfamilies are formed after a loss - usually a divorce or a death - no matter what else the holiday means to the new family, someone has lost the way it used to be. And one can't avoid the fact that one has either half as many family members to celebrate with - or twice as many. . . ." Full Text >>>
One Stepmother's Reflections on the Holidays
by Mary Hayes, Ph.D.Many stepmothers find the holiday season to be the most stressful time of their year. The holiday season is just around the corner, whether or not we're ready for it.
Mary Hayes, a sociology professor and stepmother of adult children, writes in this essay, "....A few years ago following our first holiday season together as a new merging unit, I had jokingly said that the following year I planned to leave town before Thanksgiving and that I would return after the new year began...." Full Text >>>
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