Life with Ian: The Teen Years The Journey of an Autistic Boy Through the Eyes of his Step-Dad

Life with Ian: The Teen Years The Journey of an Autistic Boy Through the Eyes of his Step-Dad
Rodney Kobayakawa (Author)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Read the journey of an autistic boy through his teenage years through the eyes of his step-dad. See how he overcame challenges and dealt with change. “Life with Ian” provides some insight as to what worked and didn't work with him. Some of these techniques may work for some families facing the same obstacles. Enjoy the short stories that attempt to show how Ian thinks. Only he really knows.
This is a collection of short stories of life experiences I have had with Ian from age 12 through age 18, his teen years. This was my first direct experience with autism and the interesting behavior that it presents, especially when it concerns parenting. As a step-dad to Ian, I had to fill in a gap that was left wide open by his biological "Father" as Ian now calls his Dad. I am his Dad now and he will tell you that. His teenager years have been full of challenges and I am glad to have played a part in his life. I have helped him learn to eat better, behave better, and improve his life to his potential. I have written this book will hopefully help others with similar situations. Ian cannot be cured of his disabilities. What we can do is to give him a life, an independent life that he can direct on his own. Ian has made great strides over the years, mostly due to his mother's wisdom in doing early intervention. Having a great support system in place provided her with the tools needed to help Ian. Her parents, brother, oldest son, aunties, uncles, "hanai" relatives and friends, along with his teachers and professional support staff, all formed the Village that raised Ian. My part was small in the big picture. However, my viewpoint as an outsider could give others some insight as a way to try some things that may help in their particular case. What works for me may not work for you.
In summary, this is a book on Ian from his step-dad's viewpoint. It is humorous at times and sad at the same time. I hope this will inspire others to not give up. Just keep trying and experimenting to make it work for you. The road may be long and winding but as long as you are moving forward you are making progress.

Some of the subjects covered are:
Grooming
Odd behaviors
Choice of Food
Auditory Delay
Being “Stuck”
Balloons, Trains, and Fireworks
Anger Management
Staring at Girls
Puberty
Personal Space
Reverse Psychology
Social Stories
Killer Bees
Money
The Hands
The Human Alarm Clock
Taking a Bath
Clothes
Making Choices
Privacy
Giving Praise
The Schedule
Doing Chores
Washing Clothes
Doing Dishes
Talking Too Fast
The Rule is…
Regression
Voting
The Theory of the Full Bucket
Who is the Boss?
Guardianship
Father versus Dad
Being Mad at Ian
Planning for Ian to Move Out

Please leave a review, good or bad as I will use the feedback to improve this book and make revisions. Life with Ian: The Teen Years

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• Published on: 2013-10-25
• Released on: 2013-10-25
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Life with Ian: The Teen Years

Life with Ian: The Teen Years
Rodney Kobayakawa (Author)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Read the journey of an autistic boy through his teenage years through the eyes of his step-dad. See how he overcame challenges and dealt with change. Life with Ian provides some insight as to what worked and didn't work with him. Some of these techniques may work for some families facing the same obstacles. Enjoy the short stories that attempts to show how Ian thinks. Only he really knows.

• Rank: #186547 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-10-25
• Released on: 2013-10-25
• Format: Kindle eBook

How To Screw Up Your Kids (Divorce and Stepparenting)

How To Screw Up Your Kids (Divorce and Stepparenting)
Pamela Fagan Hutchins (Author)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

USA Best Book Winner in Parenting/Divorce!

Blended Families, Blendered Style

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.

EEE See why Hutchins is called an "up and coming powerhouse writer" and "the Erma Bombeck of her generation."

Pamela Fagan Hutchins is an employment attorney and workplace investigator by day who writes award-winning and best-selling romantic mystery/suspense(Saving Grace, Leaving Annalise) and hilarious nonfiction (How to Screw Up Your Kids, What Kind of Loser Indie Publishes?, and others) by night. She is passionate about great writing, her good looking husband-five offspring-four dogs-one duck-four goats-one heifer family, and smart authorpreneurship. She also leaps medium-tall buildings in a single bound, if she gets a good running start.

EEE The reviews are in, and they're good. Very, very good.

"Funny and helpful." Shirley Dudley, author of Blended Family Advice

"Informative and witty." Joana James, author of Finding Romeo

"I use it with my clients." Ann Orchard, Counselor and therapist

EEE Stepparenting means you're stepcoupling, too.

Be sure to read this with its companion book, How to Screw Up Your Marriage: Do-Over Tips for First-Time Failures.

Both books are also available in paperback and audio.

Scroll up and grab your copy today.

• Rank: #135393 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-04-29
• Released on: 2012-04-29
• Format: Kindle eBook

Parenting: One Chance To Do It Right

Parenting: One Chance To Do It Right
E. Allen Griffith (Author)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

World conditions are worsening, the church is weakening, our culture seems to be collapsing, and the family is being undermined in a multitude of ways. Is it possible for parents to rear godly children in such an atmosphere? Yes, it is and it is absolutely necessary. Rearing godly children, however, can only be done through careful attention to God's teaching on parenting. God's Word is timeless truth that is worthy of our total trust. Many things have changed over the generations since the Bible was given to us, but children are still children. We can be sure that God's Word is perfectly up-to-date on how children are to be reared and trained. Parenting: One Chance To Do It Right offers a message of hope and encouragement to dads and moms who are concerned about the future of their children for time and eternity. Too many parents look back wishing they had done things differently when they reared their children. For many, but by God's grace, it is too late because there is only one chance to do it right. For added assistance, the topics of single parenting, stepfathers and the current concerns about A.D.D./A.D.H.D. are also addressed.

• Rank: #283694 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-10-us.html
• Released on: 2013-10-us.html
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The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole
Lori Holden (Author), Crystal Hass (Contributor)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Prior to 1990, fewer than 5% of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, 90% or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them! The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering.

There are many resources on why to do open adoption, but what about how? Open adoption isn't just something parents do when they exchange photos, send emails, share a visit. It's a lifestyle that may feel intrusive at times, be difficult or inconvenient at other times. Tensions can arise even in the best of circumstances. But knowing how to handle these situations and how to continue to make arrangements work for the child involved is paramount. This book offers readers the tools and the insight to do just that. It covers common open-adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.

Through their own stories and those of other families of open adoption, Lori and Crystal review the secrets to success, the pitfalls and challenges, the joys and triumphs. By putting the adopted child at the center, families can come to enjoy the benefits of open adoption and mitigate the challenges that may arise.

More than a how-to, this book shares a mindset, a heartset, that can be learned and internalized, so parents can choose to act out of love and honesty throughout their child’s growing up years, helping that child to grow up whole.

• Rank: #425633 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.26" w x .91" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 228 pages

Skirts At War: Beyond Divorced Mom/Stepmom Conflict

Skirts At War: Beyond Divorced Mom/Stepmom Conflict
Jennifer Newcomb Marine (Author), Jenna Korf (Author), Mario Korf (Author)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Many divorced moms and stepmoms feel doomed to a lifetime of power struggles when the other household is indifferent or openly hostile. Skirts at War is a reassuring and playful hands-on guide to thriving as a stepparent, remarried mom or single parent, even if the other side won't meet you halfway. Learn how to master the most common challenges vexing divorce-connected families today:



Instincts - why they're working against you and what to do instead

Support - how to sidestep well-meaning, but sabotaging advice and tune into truth-telling wisdom

Men - how fathers see our interconnected roles, in the words of a man in the middle himself

Expectations - why your "reasonable" assumptions set you up for disappointment and resentment

Self-Worth - why old issues from your past are easily triggered and how to desensitize them

Boundaries - how to transfer responsibilities to the right shoulders and stop overdoing



Divided into three user-friendly sections for quick reference: Problems, Power Tools and Making Progress, it also includes:

* over 100 comments from community members, eager to share their hard-won insights

* 20 interactive quizzes, assessments and how-tos

* 60 journal questions designed to easily move you forward

* over 100 affirming mantras to ground and center you

* a chapter by Mario Korf written directly to divorced fathers

* how to join our online community for free PDFs and exclusive material, connect with new friends reading the book and create your own private blog or journal

• Rank: #27615 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-10-01
• Format: Kindle eBook