Welcome back to the Everything Always podcast! Today, we have a guest on the show that will have all you step-parents nodding in agreement – Ashley Coleman. Ashley is the content manager and writer for stepmomming.com and has a ton of great insights about the step-parenting experience. Ashley has two step-daughters, no kids of her […]
Dating Someone with Children: The Do’s and Don’ts
Summer and Mike here for another fun episode of the Everything Always podcast! Today, we’ve a special guest on the show – Mike’s best friend, college roommate, and our officiant – Kyle McGregor. Kyle was in a relationship with someone who had an 8-year-old, and the relationship ended eight years later when the (not-so-little) girl […]
When She Has Kids and He Does Not – A Mother’s Perspective
Summer here for another episode of the Everything Always podcast! Welcome back! Today, I’ve got my dear friend, Kelsey Holohan, on the show to discuss blending families when one partner doesn’t have any kids. Kelsey has three kids and her soon-to-be husband doesn’t, so this brings up some interesting advantages – and challenges. She’s […]
Everything Always Episode 10: Effectively Dealing with Profound Life Changes
It’s another perfect day for the Everything Always podcast with Mike and Summer! Today we’re going to talk about something we all go through: Change! Although things are always changing, we’ve got some bigger-than-normal changes happening in our life right now that make this the perfect topic for today’s episode. So, how do we deal? […]
Everything Always: Our Daughters Share What It’s Like Being In a Blended Family
Hello everyone! Mike and Summer here, and welcome back to the Everything Always podcast! Today, we got our daughters together to talk about their blended family experience. Before the show, they gave us some topics they wanted to talk about so we parents could learn from their perspective. Our kids went through their own set […]
Blended Family House Rules
Welcome to the Everything Always podcast! Summer here, and today we’ve got a special guest on the show. Samantha Waltz is the author of a book I recently read called “Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience”. It calls on her experience as a stepparent, family therapist, and teacher of classes and workshops on parenting and […]