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