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- From: tbachman@hamline.edu. (Toni Bachmann)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: stepparenting
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.214632.12538@uc.msc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:46:32 GMT
- References: <C1H8K7.BJq@boi.hp.com> <7672@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> <1993Jan27.194914.15578@chpc.utexas.edu>
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- Organization: Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. [The Little U]
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- In article <1993Jan27.194914.15578@chpc.utexas.edu> jbyrd@chpc.utexas.edu (Jan Byrd) writes:
- >
- > and one of the many things he did
- >right was he didn't REQUIRE his stepchildren to call him "Dad", much as
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- I am a step-mother to three boys (who live with us) when we got them, they
- were 3, 4, 6 years old - we had a long drive to pick them up (4 hours)
- and about 1/2 way home they asked me if they could call me mom - that is
- the ultimate "acceptance" in my book - I also knew them quite well by the
- time we got custody.
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- Toni
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