70+ Blended Family Quotes

Enjoy this array of blended family quotes:

• Blended families are a beautiful mix of diverse people who each serve an important role in our lives. At times, it can be challenging to appreciate everyone’s unique beauty. -Deana Kellar La Rosa

• There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. -C. JoyBell

• All mothers are warriors who have given life…and all stepmothers are warriors who can change a life. -The Pondering Nook

• When you and your spouse are able to work together to come up with creative ways to encourage your blended family, it will show the children that you are a team, and it will strengthen the relationship between the two of you, as well. -Elizabeth Bryant

• In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul. -Lisa T. Shepherd

• They say that no matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings you revert back to childhood. -Karen White

• The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. -Og Madino

• A patchwork family needs extra effort and care, and even then there is no guarantee of happily ever after. -Ariel Gore

• The blended family isn’t just an ordinary family times two. It’s a special kind of family with special needs. -Maxine Marsolini

• Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. –Jane Howard

• Do not easily give up or lose your patience when they do not show any enthusiasm or when they show a negative attitude toward all your efforts to get to know them better. -Matthew Massimo

• Remember that you are not a terrible person, no matter what your teenager says! You are the good person with good intentions deep down, so don’t ever forget it! -Lynn Peterson

• You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them? -Desmond Tutu

• One of the most powerful things you can do to make your blended family victorious is to learn how to release unrealistic expectations. -Kellye Laughery

• Kids feed off the inbalance and take advantage of a “slack” parent and the “strict” parent get backlash of trying to enforce basic consequences and boundaries etc. It’s probably the most damaging effect of blended families; the parenting stress aggravates relationship stress and you get a perfect storm and the family structure disintegrates. -Karen Duckworth

• The first key to balancing your busy life and creating a peaceful environment for your blended family to thrive in lies in defining your family values – first as a couple, then as a family. -Kellye Laughery

• … my advice to the newly blended family would be to spend some time alone with not only your biological kids but also the stepkids. Take time to make each child feel special. -Anita Dunn

• It is a challenge unlike any other to make the effort to love our step-kids like they are your own and to maybe not receive that love back. -Rose Quinn

• The dynamics of a traditional family don’t even come close to the complications that stepfamilies face. -Gayla Grace

• Stop thinking that things are going to be perfect. It’s not going to happen. The kids will not get along all the time, the house will not always be quiet, you will not always hear ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ It isn’t realistic. What is realistic is taking a stock of how incredibly lucky you are to have more children to love and guide. -Kellee Mulkerin-Ford

• When it feels as if you can’t do right by the other parent, do right by your step-child instead. You’ll never fail with best interest at heart. -Jessica James

• It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it. –Peter Buffett

• Take good care of your marriage. Showing your kids and step-kids what a happy, healthy partnership looks like is an invaluable gift. -Jenna Korf

• The stepmom is lone family member who is greatly affected by decisions in which she often has no say. Having a partner who understands this and takes her feelings into consideration often make the difference between a happy relationship and a strained one. -Jenna Korf

• Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love. It means showing up when they need it most. It means having each other’s backs. It means choosing to love each other even on those days when you struggle to like each other. Dave Willis

• While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt

• To mend a heart you didn’t break is a part of loving a child you didn’t make. -The Pondering Nook

• Don’t talk about the shortcomings of the other mom or dad. Rather, point out in a positive way why you parent differently than they do. Not that she or he is doing it wrong, but what you hope to teach them even though you don’t agree with them. -Lynn Peterson

• You will never regret taking the high road. -Stepmomming.com

• “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” –Marge Kennedy

• Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. –Brad Henry

• One of the most important things that parents need do while planning a blended family, is to sit down and discuss their parenting methods very openly and honestly with each other. -Mary Johnson

• My stepdad may not have given me life, but he sure has made my life better. – Gerado Campbell

• “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained.” –Winston Churchill

• When you are building a blended family, it is like traveling in stormy seas. There will be inevitable resentment and resistance to the changes but taking baby steps are what a couple need if they want to create a lasting union. -Lilli Morgan

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. -Oprah Winfrey

• When you’re a stepmom, you’re damned if you do, you’re damned if you don’t. It’s hard to figure out when to step back. -Jamie Scrimgeour

• It’s so important for children to have extended family, because they learn. “Wow, somebody besides Mom and Dad loves me and thinks I’m wonderful.” That’s how they learn to start reaching out into the world. -Dr. Phil

• Families are like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. -Unknown

• Being a better stepmom doesn’t come from a book about step-parenting—it comes from developing confidence and becoming secure in who you are. It comes from taking control of your own life and developing healthy relationships with the people around you. -Jamie Scrimgeour

• I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. -Anais Nin

• Our family sure hit some bumpy roads on this path of life. It took us a while to get where we are today…I’m sure glad we all took the effort to walk together. -Christy Borgeld

• If the kids are complaining about their mom, stick up for her when you can. I promise this will get back to her! -Lynn Peterson

• My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. -Nicholas Sparks

• Being a step mom may not be the role you thought you’d play in life, but it is definitely a role for which you have been chosen. -The Pondering Nook

• The truth is that the way our ex’s, our partner’s ex’s or even the step kids see us isn’t always about us. It’s about them and their struggles, insecurities, fears or limitations. You don’t have to allow their judgement to become their truth. -Daniell Koepke

•  Whether you’re a stepmom who loves her stepkids as her own or you’re struggling to co-exist with them, you’ve experiences challenges that most people will never understand- and you have an inner strength that most people couldn’t imagine. -Jenna Korf

• A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. -George Moore

• One of the greatest challenges for a stepmom is letting go of her ego. Caring for a child even when you may get no credit for doing so is the ultimate test of character. -The Pondering Nook

• Parenthood requires love, not DNA. -Unknown

• This may not apply to every situation but being a step mom comes with dealing with an ex and that isn’t always easy. I’ve really had to learn to let go of hurtful words and dramatic situations. -Rose Quinn                                                            

• When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -Franklin D Roosevelt

• Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become. -Brooke Hampton

• We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family. –Coco

• Biomoms and stepmoms need not compete! When was the last time  you saw someone try to beat a team member in a relay race? -The Good Step Mothers

• Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. -Marjorie Pay Hinckley

• Taking care of yourself is part of taking care of your kids. -Lenny Lemons

• I can see how a mother could feel jealous or threatened by a stepmom with intentions to create a new family from her old one. -Traci Morena

• When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you. –Guy Lafleur

• Lookin’ back all I can say about the things he for me is I hope I’m at least half the dad that he didn’t have to be. -Brad Paisley

• A child cannot have too many people who love them and want to help them succeed. -Unknown

• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. -Jerry Seinfeld

• Being a stepmom is worthy of celebration. It is a difficult role that often means twice the stress without additional benefits. Yes, it’s stressful to be a biological parent, too. But I’ve yet to meet a mom who would switch roles with me. -Stacie Nielsen Bortel

• You don’t need everyone to love you, just a few good people. -Charity Barnum, The Greatest Showman

• Let motherhood be more about what you do with your children instead of what you do for them. -Mamie L. Pack

• Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what. -Unknown

• Don’t talk about the shortcomings of the other mom or dad. Rather, point out in a positive way why you parent differently than they do. Not that she or he is doing it wrong, but what you hope to teach them even though you don’t agree with them. -Lynn Peterson Glinda

• Families don’t have to start together to end together. -Stepping Through Australia

• Family is like a life jacket in the stormy sea of life. -J.K Rowling

• At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. -Mark V. Olsen

• Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours. -Unknown

• He never treated me like I was a package deal-something or someone he would have to accept if he wanted my mom in his life. I wasn’t a burden in his eyes, I was a bonus. -Ashley Stock

• The only steps in this house are the stairsteps and the only half in this house is the half and half creamer. -Al Hodson

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family… in another city. -George Burns
  

• Praise the bio (or stepmom) in front of the kids. Don’t lie, but find positive things to say and stay away from saying anything negative. -Lynn Peterson

• The bond that links family is not always the one of blood but of choice, of respect and joy in each other’s life. -Stepping through Australia

• It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. -Ann Landers

• The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched. -Justin Ricklefs

• Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always being a part of you. -Carol Ann Albright Eastman

• That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable. -Deb Caletti
  

• To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family grief, and joys. We live outside the touch of time. -Clara Ortega

• How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -Winnie The Pooh

• “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. -Jonathan Safran Foer

• Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. -Linda Wooten

• Raising kids is like a walk in the park…Jurassic Park.

• I may not always be with you
  But when we’re far apart
  Remember you will be with me
  Right inside my heart. -Marc Wambolt

• Motherhood is a choice you make everyday to put someone else’s happiness and well being ahead of your own. To teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing, even when you’re not sure what the right thing is. And to forgive yourself, over and over again for doing everything “wrong”. -Donna Ball

• If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Herman Hesse

• Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along too late, but your siblings know you when you are in the most inchoate form. -Jeffrey Kluger

• Parenting is 50% feeling like your head might explode, and 50% feeling like your heart might. -Chaos and Quiet

• The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. -Dodie Smith

• It’s not flesh and blood, but the heart that makes us father and son. -Johann Schiller

• Family is not an important thing, it’s everything. -Michael J. Fox

• Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a child’s lifeexperience. -Azriel Johnson

• Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. -Lilo and Stitch

• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. -Mother Theresa
• If you’re struggling with a stepchild relationship that’s on a downward spiral, don’t give up. God redeems relationships every day. -Gayla Grace

• There are always steps you can take towards unity in a blended family. And you will make it, one step at a time. -Donna Houpe

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