Service provides:

• a 3 hour workshop that helps participants understand the roles of the natural and step-parent, common issues in blended families, and children’s responses to the breakups of prior relationships

Topics include:

• step-parenting tips and help to develop strategies for a more positive and healthy home together
• what is a blended family and how step-families develop
• how to create parenting plans and discipline in blended families
• the different parenting styles that can appear in blended families
• the role of the natural parent
• the role of the step-parents
• the dynamics of parenting step-children and supporting the relationship between step-children and step-parents
• creating effective parenting strategies and giving positive feedback
• communicating with your children and step-children
• building and maintaining healthy relationships with children and step-children