Parental “ownership”, having multitudes of role models and a little feminist rant – what struggling as a stepmother taught me about mothering.
Parenting
Stepparents have an enormous role to play in the parenting of their stepchildren – should they so wish. In this series we look at the ways in which you can have an influence, and all the child-specific stepfamily quirks.
Is there a right way and a wrong way to refer to your half or step siblings? How using particular terminology implies positive and negative emotions.
Change starts at home. Some ideas of how stepmothers can start, or continue to, raise anti-racist children and combat racial bias within their families.