A big problem that children in blended families struggle with is that there isn’t much communication between the biological parents with the teachers of the children. When the teacher touches basis with one parent and would think that the parent would tell the other but they might not be communicating because of problem between them. The article from the Oregonian, Back to School for Blended Families 101: Parents, stepparents will be tested by Heidi Williams, talks about how parents struggle to keep tabs on everything that is happening at school with their children. Another issues that the article talked about was how if both parents were remarried that there was a lack of communication between the two parents about the child. “The parents
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In my personal opinion, I feel that many parents don’t communicate because of the reasons that they split up in the first place, but parents need to realize that their children are more important than their problems. I live in a blended family with my mom being remarried and my dad was remarried until this year when him and his life split up. My mom always struggled to communicate with my dad because they never got along, which is why they never got married. My mom got over her differences and communicated with him so that I could still see him every month but he never got over it. The reason that I know that he never got over it is because every time I would invite him to come to my mother’s house for a birthday party or my high school graduation he wouldn’t come. Through my life and many others that I have talked to I know that socializing isn’t an issue with blended families. Blended families can be a good thing for the elderly because then they have more family to look after them. Also blended families are very common in society, but there are a lot of issues arising because of problems that come up. One that parents struggle with is making sure that their children don’t feel that they aren’t getting enough attention from the biological
In my personal opinion, I feel that many parents don’t communicate because of the reasons that they split up in the first place, but parents need to realize that their children are more important than their problems. I live in a blended family with my mom being remarried and my dad was remarried until this year when him and his life split up. My mom always struggled to communicate with my dad because they never got along, which is why they never got married. My mom got over her differences and communicated with him so that I could still see him every month but he never got over it. The reason that I know that he never got over it is because every time I would invite him to come to my mother’s house for a birthday party or my high school graduation he wouldn’t come. Through my life and many others that I have talked to I know that socializing isn’t an issue with blended families. Blended families can be a good thing for the elderly because then they have more family to look after them. Also blended families are very common in society, but there are a lot of issues arising because of problems that come up. One that parents struggle with is making sure that their children don’t feel that they aren’t getting enough attention from the biological