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Parenting Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the parenting facet of life. Parenting-Blog: Step-Parenting News Step parenting course charts new path: February 6, 2008 by Radhika Panjwani
Wicked cliché's from fairy tales don't help. And worse still, they have few resources to help them find their way. Step parenting is common in the social fabric of our society today, yet, two out of three families fail to deliver success in that role. Yvonne Bricks, a speech-language pathologist, with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board (DPCSB) plans to change all that. Bricks, a certified coach with the Stepfamily Foundation, is the first counsellor offering two five-week lecture series on step-parenting at the Humber College and at the Eglinton Community Centre in Toronto this month. “The course is about the importance of being a proper step-parent so that they can experience success in their relationships,” Bricks said. “The basic premise is that a step family doesn't run the same way as a normal family, there are lot of different rules and regulations to follow.” Brick said her course will be of help to adults who get remarried or re-involved in a relationship. She said a lot of Canadians have not acknowledged or accepted that there is in fact difficulty with the step family relationship. “You've a breakdown of the family and the relationship and yet another divorce,” she said. “If you listen and take note on some of my seminars, you'll know the rules on how to conduct yourselves properly and make it work.” The expert said she gathered much of the materials she plans to cover at the seminar from the works of her guru and step-parenting expert - Jeannette Lofas and author of “Step-parenting". In most cases, a lack of communication is the most common reason for the breakdown of a step-family. “I find that the step-parents don't share their agendas with each other or their children,” she said. “As a result, nobody knows what to expect and anticipate and that causes a feeling of insecurity. And when children are feeling insecure, they act-up and become difficult and impossible.” Bricks remarried when her son was eight-years-old. Her own experiences being part of a step-family help her to empathize with others in similar situation. She said before they decided to get married, she and her future husband discussed the many of the ground rules of parenting they would adopt and they collaborated together in making it work. The result is that her son, who's now 30, shares an excellent relationship with his step-father. “It's all well to say 'I'm in love', but I recommend couples sit down and discuss the financial and behavioural issues of parenting,” she said. The fee for the five-week course at Humber College is $290.44. For more information, call Bricks at 416-992-9558. Parenting Blog Comment:
Step parenting exists as a concept in mind only, just because the family does. And the family as a concept makes you -the male - believe that your 'real' kids are really yours, and no one else's are they! How can you be sure about that? OK, you trust your wife. But who doesn't tell lies? Do you always tell every single thing in your mind and your life to her? Ha ha ha... if you do, she will divorce you the very next day! And you will do the same if she shows you all the private corners of her mind and her life. I know many a father who brings up someone else's offsprings taking them to be his own! It's all there in the mind only. Kids are kids whether they have come through you or through someone else! In the words of Kahlil Gibran: 'They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.' 'They come through you but not from you.' 'And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.' Parenting blog asks you an honest question: Don't these words drop the very problem of step parenting before it even raises its head? Parenting blog suggests you an honest answer too: Just love... ...your fellow human beings sharing the same batch as yours on this planet earth!
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