Quotes About Stepchildren

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

When a coach comes in and takes over a new program, he's adopting 125 new stepchildren. Some of them love the place but a lot of them love the coaches, they came for a different offense, they came for a defense, and every coach is different. All have some similarities but all are different.

My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.

But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.

I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in their twenties, move back home.

Sporty, terrifying, babies and posh, yes. What are we?' 'Desdemona? Red-headed stepchildren. Who don't fit anywhere else.

It's tempting for stepmothers at the breaking point to lower their expectations to where they disengage emotionally from their stepchildren. That's where trouble can set in, because it directly affects the marriage, which in the early years is the weakest link in a new stepfamily. Because in any marriage, when emotional distance sets in, it's hard for partners to turn back to each other and back to the marriage.