How to help your kids cope with your ex's remarriage

You have remarried and your kids have successfully coped up with the arrangements. Their finally getting along with your new spouse and their step-siblings. However, what happens when your ex-spouse decide to remarry? How can you be of help for your own kids and their coping up with their soon to be new blended family?

1. Your kids probably already know about your ex-spouse's relationship and the marriage announcement may not come as a surprise for them. Knowing this, you can be of help for them by reassuring them that your love and your ex-spouse's love for them will remain the same.
2. Help your kids cope up by making sure you remain positive about your ex-spouse's remarriage and soon to be new spouse. Never say anything negative about your ex-spouse's new partner specially infront of your children.
3. Co-parenting with your new spouse and your ex-spouse should remain, never hide any information from your ex-spouse specially everything about your kids. The most important thing to understand here is understanding how your kids feel and how they are coping up with two blended families.

If you think that you cannot handle the whole lot of things that you will encounter when your ex-spouse remarries, try to reach out and ask for help. The Blended and Step FamilyResource Center is one of the top destination for blended familyadvice and coaching. Dealing with how your kids feel and how they react to your ex's remarriage can be a lot to handle, by this you should be able to assist and lighten the load of your kids when it comes to adjustments.