Comments for Young Parents Guide

Comment on how do you include step parents on a family tree? by rockchick

rockchick — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:57:58 +0000

Well technically you’d draw a line from that man to his 2nd spouse’s name and a line from HER to her child (even though he adopted him (putting that adopted name in parentheses). It seems that those computer genealogy programs can’t add this set-up in, so I say add it by hand after printing.
You might get an idea by going to the library and looking at some old genealogy charts for ideas.

Comment on how do you include step parents on a family tree? by Ted Pack

Ted Pack — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:57:58 +0000

Most of us don’t do family trees per se. We have either pedigree charts, which look like the ones dog and horse breeders use (one individual to the left, his/her 2 parents next, the 4 grandparents, the 8 great grandparents), or Family Group Sheets. FGSs show the man, woman and all of their children. If you have a man who had children by two wives and three casual affairs, you’d have 5 FGSs for him.

Comment on how do you include step parents on a family tree? by GenevievesMom

GenevievesMom — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:57:58 +0000

You don’t "include step parents" per se. Instead, you attach spouses of parents as separate marriages. Then you include children for each marriage. When the program calculates relationship, it will read children with only one common parent as half-sibs, and the children of a new spouse with no blood relationship to other parent as your step brothers/sisters.

Comment on how do you include step parents on a family tree? by Mind Bender

Mind Bender — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:57:58 +0000

What are commonly referred to as step parents are actually multiple spouses of the same person. How it is represented (or IF it is represented) depends on what kind of tree you have.

If it is an ancestor tree, then the "step-parents" are not included at all because there is no relationship to the person at the bottom of the tree. Only direct blood relatives are included.

If it were a descendant tree, then depending on whether the source of the tree was on your husband’s father side or mother’s side makes a difference. If the descendant tree stared with an ancestor on your husband’s father’s side, then your husband’s father is shown with two wives. The children he has with each wife is shown descending from the wife. Note that here, the second husband of his mother is not shows because they have no relation to the decendancy on the father’s side.

Likewise, if the decendant tree was on your husband’s mother’s side, then his mother would show two spouses, and children from each spouse would be shown decending from the appropriate spouse. In this case, his father’s second wife would not appear in the tree.

Remember, a descendant tree shows descendants (working past to present) from a single individual from the past and only their descendants and the descendant’s spouses to show parentage. An ancestor tree starts with a person and works backwards in time only showing direct blood ancestors and their spouse related to the line.

Aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. are only shown on descendant trees. Also, your husband only has one ancestor tree starting with him. BUT, can be part of multiple descendant trees that end with him. Two (one for each parent), four (one for each grandparent), eight (one for each great grandparent), etc.

Comment on do u think parenting magazines are stupid? by olschoolmom

olschoolmom — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:15:20 +0000

LOL, ya their job is to sell magazines. I doubt a one of those writers has children.

Comment on do u think parenting magazines are stupid? by western b

western b — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:15:20 +0000

Sure they’re stupid…but then so is every other magazine on the shelf! (aside from maybe national geographic lol)

Comment on do u think parenting magazines are stupid? by proudpreemieparents

proudpreemieparents — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:15:20 +0000

This is America and unfortunately Americans are stupid….there needs to be warning labels on everything so people don’t get hurt or sued by the maufacturer. Magazines need to write stuff like that so people don’t get hurt.

No, you can’t compare fireworks to cupcakes, but if the child is too young for a sparkler, wouldn’t making cupcakes be a fun alternative for them??

Comment on do u think parenting magazines are stupid? by HC

HC — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:15:20 +0000

there are people out there that would write that crap just to get your money

Comment on do u think parenting magazines are stupid? by kittie

kittie — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:15:20 +0000

Yeah they are dumb, i use to read them, then i had my son and realized all i read was crappers, so i threw them out as well as the ones that come in the mail.

Comment on do u think parenting magazines are stupid? by Casey

Casey — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:15:20 +0000

Yes and no. I hate the Family Table. Just because a family doesn’t eat dinner together doesn’t mean they don’t spend time together. Those really annoy me. As for parenting magazines they get over dramatic. I’m not going to keep my children in a bubble. I think some of the recipies are great and maybe even the bedtime tips. As for their entertaining ideas, thats another story.