Advice for Stepgrandparents
Stepgrandparents are created through marrying someone who is or becomes a grandparent or through a child's marriage to someone with children. In both cases, the blended families that are created come with their own special issues. Stepfamilies sometimes struggle with children's resentment of a remarriage, favoritism and other volatile issues. This advice, taken from experts and from stepgrandparents themselves, should prove helpful.
Blended families often include stepgrandparents. The stepgrandparent role is one that presents special challenges. Some become stepgrandparents when one of their children marries someone with children. Some become stepgrandparents by marrying someone with grandchildren. Each route has some special difficulties.
Another route to becoming a stepgrandparent is to marry someone with grandchildren. In a variation of this, you marry someone with children and later your mate becomes a grandparent and you become a stepgrandparent. In either scenario, your partner’s divorce and remarriage can impact your stepgrandparenting role.
Having a child who becomes a stepparent is definitely the most common way of becoming a stepgrandparent. Although there are millions of happy, functional blended families, stepfamily relationships can be complicated for several reasons.
Guest stepgrandparents respond to frequently asked questions about avoiding favoritism between biological grandchildren and stepgrandchildren, choosing grandparent names, finding ways to bond with stepgrandchildren and other stepfamily issues.
