Step Parenting

Learn more about Stepchildren Speak: 10 Grown-up Stepchildren Teach us how to Build Healthy Stepfamilies
Stepchildren Speak: 10 Grown-up Stepchildren Teach us how to Build Healthy Stepfamilies
by Susan Philips

We've heard from the parents and stepparents. We've heard from the child psychologists and family counselors. Now let the children speak. Here are the wise words of ten children who grew up in stepfamilies. They are young enough to remember the experience well and old enough to have learned from it. They not only offer their poignant stories, but they add advice specifically marked for parents, stepparents, and even stepchildren. They come from different races, economic levels and from various parts of the country, but all of their stories reverberate with truth and a desire to help others. The author, a parent and stepparent herself, knew the right questions to ask and knew how to help them translate their sometimes painful experience into lessons from which all of us can learn.
   
$14.95

Learn more about Making Adult Stepfamilies Work: Strategies for the Whole Family When a Parent Marries Later in Life
Making Adult Stepfamilies Work: Strategies for the Whole Family When a Parent Marries Later in Life
by Jean Lipman-Blumen, Grace Gabe

If you are among the growing number of families in which adults with grown children have remarried later in life, you are probably familiar with the conflicts and complicated emotional dynamics that can result. Parents expect that remarrying will be easier because the children are grown up. But the reality is that these remarriages can cause painful struggles between parents and their adult children. Based on in-depth research by a psychiatrist and a sociologist, Step Wars trains a revealing lens on the sources of these conflicts and teaches the skills required to manage them. Topics include: * Your Children and Mine: Can They Ever Become Ours? * What Will Happen to the "Family Home"? * Who Should Inherit My Property? Managing Financial Conflict Between Generations * Health and Illness: Thank Heaven the Caretaker Is on Duty * The Grandchildren: Pawns or Bridges?
   
$14.95

Learn more about Step-Parenting 101
Step-Parenting 101
by Kevin Leman

When children from two different families are brought together through a remarriage, they are plunged into a birth-order blender. Then both parents must figure out how to bring order to a life that is often chaotic and, at the very least, extremely challenging. Based on the book How to Live in a Step-Family Without Getting Stepped On, this simple and practical guide to step parenting by bestselling author and family counselor Dr. Kevin Leman will help you work as a team in disciplining, loving, and understanding you children as you develop a successfully blended family. Whether you are just starting out or have been battling to unify two families for years, Step parenting 101 can help you become winning stepparents and create a deeply loving and rewarding life together.
   
$9.99

Learn more about Working with Groups on Family Issues
Working with Groups on Family Issues
by Sandy Stewart Christian

Whether you're a clinical therapist or volunteer group leader, Working with Groups on Family Issues gives you tools for teaching people how to cope with today's family relationships, including divorce, single parenting, stepfamilies, gay and lesbian partners, working partners, and more. Twenty-five 30-60 minute structured exercises combine the knowledge of 24 marriage and family experts with practical learning activities to help you move individuals, couples, children, and families toward positive change, regardless of your expertise in addressing family issues.
   
$29.95

Learn more about Understanding Stepfamilies: Their Structure and Dynamics
Understanding Stepfamilies: Their Structure and Dynamics
by Craig A. Everett

Understanding Stepfamilies takes a large step toward achieving integration of the many variables presented in understanding the stepfamily system. The book examines the dynamics and resources within these complex family systems. It helps clinicians and researchers understand the underlying structural patterns and dynamics of stepfamilies, promoting more successful, positive treatment outcomes. Chapters in Understanding Stepfamilies offer clinicians and researchers an international perspective, including contributions from the U.S., Canada, Israel, and The Netherlands. Readers learn of unique theoretical approaches to understanding stepfamily typologies and behaviors and specific clinical models for assessment and intervention, as well as more empirically-based findings regarding parent-child interactions.
   
$34.00

Learn more about Active Parenting for Stepfamilies
Active Parenting for Stepfamilies
by Michael H. Popkin

For stepfamilies, getting married is the easy part! This encouraging guide will help couples work together to raise children in the challenging stepfamily environment. They will also learn how to use powerful communication and negotiation skills to strengthen marriage and family. Written for parents and stepparents to use together, this book combines the knowledge of Active Parenting author Michael Popkin and stepfamily expert Elizabeth Einstein.
   
$14.95

Learn more about Blended Not Shaken: Life in Our Stepfamilies : Issues and Resolutions
Blended Not Shaken: Life in Our Stepfamilies : Issues and Resolutions
by Sherrie L. Todd

Candid approach to common issues that cause the estimated 40,000,000 step-families in America to suffer a failure rate of 63%. The book chronicals day to day personal experiences of trial and error, effort and triumph, offering solutions with practicality
   
$14.50

Learn more about Build a High-nurturance Stepfamily
Build a High-nurturance Stepfamily
by Peter K. Gerlach

Without credible Census data to support them, many lay stepfamily authors claim that over half of American re/marriages fail legally. Whatever the re/divorce rate, millions of co-parents (stepparents and bioparents) and resident and visiting minor kids live with significant frustration, hurt, confusion, guilt, and resentment for many years. Few courting co-parents know they face five major hazards that will hinder their family dreams from coming true: (1) unseen psychological wounds; (2) unawareness and ignorance; (3) blocked grief; (4) courtship neediness and idealism; and (5) little accessible, informed help.
   
$26.99

Learn more about Step-By Step-Parenting: A Guide to Successful Living With a Blended Family
Step-By Step-Parenting: A Guide to Successful Living With a Blended Family
by James D. Eckler

Revised and updated, this book speaks to families created out of second marriages, offering advice and inspiration on everything from games stepchildren play to the rights of the stepparent.
   
$14.99

Learn more about Raising Children in Blended Families
Raising Children in Blended Families
by Maxine Marsolini

Maxine has a blended family herself and has added many stories from her counseling background to illustrate each chapter. The book is divided into two major sections: "What the Children Have to Say" and "What the Experts Have to Say." Each chapter in the "What the Children Have to Say" section contains 'Joy Builders', 'Thoughts for Today', 'Let's Look at This Family', 'Things We Can Do Now' and 'If I Could Tell My Parents Something It Would Be' . . . . No subject is too hard to cover, serious abuse, hatred, anger and the example spare no details. I found the suggestions to be excellent. The second section when the Experts speak is written by well known names like Patricia Rushford and H. Norman Wright. It would be helpful to any blended family with children from preschool to adulthood. I recommend this title. (Jan Arkills The Lamplighter )
   
$11.99
 
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