FamilyLife Blended® con Ron L. Deal

When you’re parenting a grieving child, you have some special challenges to overcome.

In her book, Stepparenting the Grieving Child, author Diane Fromme says when a child loses a parent they no longer get to witness their parent’s inadequacies instead they tend to idolize that parent which makes bonding for even the most loving, supportive stepparent harder. That’s not all. A grieving child sometimes is fearful that someone else may die. Now this isn’t to say bonding won’t occur just that the stepparent and living parent should temper their expectations and take things in stride.