Good Morning, Midnight

Good Morning, Midnight
by Reginald Hill (Author), Shaun Dooley (Narrator)
(17)

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Blended Family Advice: A step-by-step guide to help blended and step families become strong and successful

Blended Family Advice: A step-by-step guide to help blended and step families become strong and successful
MA LPC Shirley Cress Dudley (Author)
(3)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Blended Family Advice is a step-by-step guide to help blended and step families navigate the rough areas in their marriages and families.

The book focuses on three main areas: marriage, kids, and the outside world- composed of ex-spouses, parents and others. Here are some of the chapter topics:
The Center of the Blended Family: You and Your Spouse
Developing Great Communication Skills
Financial Discussions
Parenting
Creating a Sense of Unity in your Newly Blended Family
How to treat Stepsiblings and Stepparents
Visits to the “other” parent’s house
Maintaining a Positive Relationship with your Ex-Spouse
Expectations: Managing Your Expectations and the Expectations of Others
Keys to a Successful Marriage

Blended Family Advice also includes bonus reports on Successful Blended Family Holidays, Financial Planner for the Blended Family, House Hunting for the Blended Family and a Grandparents Guide to the Blended Family.

Blended families and step families will find this book to be a comprehensive resource and one that every stepfamily and blended family will need in their home.

• Rank: #82378 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-10-26
• Released on: 2009-10-26
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Blended Family: Achieving Peace and Harmony in the Christian Home

The Blended Family: Achieving Peace and Harmony in the Christian Home
Edward Douglas (Author), Sharon Douglas (Author)
(3)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Love between two people that once seemed heavenly becomes extremely complicated when two households are joined in marriage. When a number of strangers of various stages in life suddenly come together to be a family, unexpected issues concerning discipline, finances, outside influences, and privacy surface. Roles become confusing. In the Blended Family, Edward and Sharon Douglas address the complex nature of the stepfamily. Believing that the answers to all concerns can be discovered in the Word of God, they offer biblical solutions to achieve and maintain harmonious relationships within the family. God has a perfect plan for marriage and places an awesome responsibility on parents to raise His children. The Douglases have found that applying the Word of God to marriage, as well as loving all children as Jesus did, leads to a happier and more fulfilling family life.

• Rank: #492918 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Happily Remarried: Making Decisions Together * Blending Families Successfully * Building a Love That Will Last

Happily Remarried: Making Decisions Together * Blending Families Successfully * Building a Love That Will Last
David Frisbie (Author), Lisa Frisbie (Author)
(17)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Nearly 60 percent of remarriages end in divorce. What can people do to beat the odds?

David and Lisa Frisbie share the fruits of more than 20 years of speaking, teaching, and counseling. Having talked to hundreds of couples, the authors use many real-life examples and speak with hope and humor about the challenges. They point to four key strategies to help bring long-term unity:

• forgive everyone, including yourself
• regard remarriage as permanent and irreversible
• use conflict to get better acquainted
• form a spiritual connection centered on serving God

With further step-by-step marriage-saving advice about forming a new family unit and helpful discussion questions, Happily Remarried makes a great how-to recipe for a successful, happy remarriage.

• Rank: #61469 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.33" h x 5.47" w x .54" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

10 Ways to Improve Relationships With Your Step-Teenagers (The Accidental Parent)

10 Ways to Improve Relationships With Your Step-Teenagers (The Accidental Parent)
Angela Whitlock (Author)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Struggling to get on with your step teenagers? Whatever you try is met with silence?

Watching your natural child grow into a teenager has a whole host of challenges; relationships alter and parents need to adapt, adopt and change from managing their children's lives to coaching them, in order to keep them communicating. But step-parenting, presents itself with a whole new set of encounters, and not always through choice. Perhaps you’ve met the partner of your dreams and suddenly you find yourself having to handle more than one relationship; with those of your newly found step children.

What Angela shares with you as a parent, step parent and also as a teen coach, is that you are not alone and many of the people involved feel that it is an emotional roller coaster.

This simple and short easy to read book gives you ten ideas to improve your relationship with your step children. It's written by Angela Whitlock who is an authority on change and shares with you more than theory with techniques that are tried and tested for success on real teenagers.

• Rank: #286954 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-05-09
• Released on: 2013-05-09
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

We're Not Blended - We're Pureed

We're Not Blended - We're Pureed
Diana Lesire Brandmeyer (Author), Marty C. Lintvedt (Author)
(14)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Can two families learn to cohabitate?
In peace?
Ever?
Are you terrified that you've turned into a version of the fairy-tale wicked stepparent?

Do you paste on a smile and pretend your family is a vision of 1950s Main Street America while at home the battle lines are etched in the driveway and signed with the kid's initials?

Don't dismay. God is with you. Discover how others have dealt with the difficult issues of blending two families. Find real-world advice to help you when your own words fail.

This engaging readable book is held together with humor, liberally peppered with information, commentary, and includes clinically sound information and proven communication tools.

Both authors provide practical methods for dealing with tough subjects. Short captivating chapters are perfect for those rare moments that parents have to themselves. Readers will enjoy stories and testimonies as they prepare their own families for success.

• Rank: #732575 in Books
• Published on: 2011-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.91" h x .59" w x 5.39" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Beyond the Brady Bunch: Hope and Help for Blended Families

Beyond the Brady Bunch: Hope and Help for Blended Families
Debbie Alsdorf (Author), Ray Alsdorf (Author)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
Lori Holden (Author), Crystal Hass (Contributor)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Open adoption has become more popular in the United States as domestic closed adoptions have become more difficult to arrange, and as restrictions on international adoptions continue to be drawn. The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption is a guide for those involved in adoption – domestic, international and foster, as well as those who come to parenting via assisted reproduction – as it helps readers create and sustain a positive and workable open adoption arrangement that puts the child at the center.

• Rank: #142977 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-03-28
• Released on: 2013-05-03
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Smart Stepfamily Small Group Resource DVD, The: An 8 Session Guide to a Healthy Stepfamily

Smart Stepfamily Small Group Resource DVD, The: An 8 Session Guide to a Healthy Stepfamily
Ron L. Deal (Author)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Ron L. Deal, president of Successful Stepfamilies and one of the nation's leading experts on Christian stepfamilies, gives couples keys to building a healthy stepfamily. The eight sessions--ideal for small groups or seminars--offer useable solutions for everyday living, practical tips for raising stepkids, and ways to strengthen the couple's marriage. Deal's personable presentation combines instruction and encouragement that affirms both husbands and wives and their intent to build strong families. The video presentation supports Deal's popular book The Smart Stepfamily. Along with the DVD, a downloadable Participant/Leader Guide is available.

• Rank: #92837 in Books
• Published on: 2010-03-01
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: DVD

The Evil Stepmother Speaks: A Guide for Stepfamilies Who Want to Love and Laugh

The Evil Stepmother Speaks: A Guide for Stepfamilies Who Want to Love and Laugh
Barbara Goldberg (Author)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

How to Screw Up Your Kids and How to Screw Up Your Marriage

How to Screw Up Your Kids and How to Screw Up Your Marriage
Pamela Fagan Hutchins (Author)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Get both award-winning books on Stepparenting and Stepcoupling together: How to Screw Up Your Kids and How to Screw Up Your Marriage

1. How to Screw Up Your Kids: Blended Families, Blendered Style

Award-Winner in the 'Parenting/Family: Divorce' category of The 2012 USA Best Book Awards

Married couples with children divorce 40% of the time. In less than three years after that divorce, chances are both mom and dad are remarried, and probably each to someone who has kids of their own. The single most explosive and divisive issue in those marriages? Stepparenting.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all lived in a bubble gum and sugar plum world where, without a ripple on Lake Placid, kids embraced stepparents and appreciated their contributions? Where stepsiblings didn't compete for attention and argue over favorites and fairness? Well, we don't.

So what we need when stepparenting is a good plan. A plan for blending, or blendering if you will, the disparate stepchildren and their parents into a chunky smoothie of stepfamily goodness. How To Screw Up Your Kids helps the parents everyone predicts will fail prove all the naysayers wrong. Through the use of practical human relations principles and the author's achingly honest and often hilarious stories, readers will learn to envision and instill a unique set of family values and culture into their new household, and by God, have fun doing it.

2. How to Screw Up Your Marriage: Do-Over Tips For First-Time Failures

Let's face it. People keep getting married. Yet over 40% of first marriages end in divorce and up to 67% of second do, too, with statistics becoming predictably more dismal as the number of trips to the altar rack up. It seems like, for many of us, the longing to be half of a couple so in love they make other people want to puke is too strong to ignore.

The problem is, we've all grown up to expect that fairytale endings happen by accident, that if we wish upon a star, or let down our golden hair, then, blammo, we'll get our happily ever after. In other words, we're lazy and feel entitled to have the one thing we want most in the world—the one thing we should work hardest to create and nurture—without doing squat to make our dreams reality. We fall in love, we marry, we pout, we nag, we sulk, and we sabotage.

How to Screw Up Your Marriage interrupts the pity party with a no-nonsense formula for couplehood success, written by a human relations expert who is herself in a wonderfully nauseating marriage with a passel of his and hers kids.

Both books are also available in paperback.

• Rank: #274587 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-04-17
• Released on: 2013-04-17
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Love Him, Love His Kids

Love Him, Love His Kids
Stan Wenck (Author), Connie J. Hansen (Author)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

He loves her. She loves him. But his kids hate her.
Or bait her. Or ignore her altogether. She's the stepmother, and sometimes she feels as if she's never played a more thankless role. It doesn't have to be that way. With this book, the stepmother will find the advice she needs to win over even the most resistant children. This honest, practical guide written by a therapist and stepmother who's been there shows stepmothers the best ways to handle the most challenging situations, including how to:

• Get off on the right foot from "hello"
• Build a relationship with each child
• Share Daddy with his children
• Define boundaries as a couple
• Negotiate issues with Dad as well as the kids
• Deal with their "real" mom
• Survive holidays, birthdays, and school vacations
• Create family rituals

With this book, millions of stepmothers find the strategies they need to safeguard their new marriage and establish a happy, peaceful new blended family.

• Rank: #54387 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-07-18
• Released on: 2009-07-18
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1