The 312 Best Things About Being a Stepmom: For those days when you can only come up with one or two on your own.

The 312 Best Things About Being a Stepmom: For those days when you can only come up with one or two on your own.
Cynthia L. Copeland (Author)
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Forget Cinderella and the hundreds of other fairy tales about wicked stepmothers. Here is the truth—a warm, bright, positive, yet frankly honest and realistic celebration of the most challenging role any woman will face. Think of it as the joy of stepmomming, and the perfect Mother’s Day gift of encouragement and support. Written and illustrated by Cynthia L. Copeland, a stepmother to three boys and author of the bestselling Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me, THE 312 BEST THINGS ABOUT BEING A STEPMOM is packed with humor, wisdom, empathy, quotes, and testimonials from dozens of stepmothers who have shared their experiences with the author.

So, if being a stepmother seems so often to be a storm cloud, this is the silver lining. For example: People can’t figure out how old you are by the ages of your stepchildren. Or, When they hug you, you know it’s genuine, not out of habit. You didn’t have to agonize over whether to name your stepson after his grandfather, his rich uncle, or your favorite poet. If you ever go ahead and have kids of your own, you’ve had practice. And if you are already a parent: The trip to the warehouse club is finally worth the gas money. Your step-teens will see to it that your younger kids are up on the latest cool music, video games, and cargo pants. Family counsel now has enough people for a house and a senate. And, With so many more participants, there’s a chance that you won’t always get creamed at Scrabble!

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• Published on: 2006-04-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.83" h x 5.28" w x 1.00" l, .60 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 420 pages

Stepmotherhood: How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked, Revised Edition

Stepmotherhood: How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked, Revised Edition
Cherie Burns (Author)
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If you’re one of the more than 15 million stepmothers in the country, you know the particular trials—and joys—of stepfamily dynamics today. You wonder if you’re doing the right thing and, as a stepmother, many of your specific questions are unique. In this second edition of Stepmotherhood: How to Survive Without
Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked, journalist and stepmother Cherie Burns brings together countless insights and sound advice, based on the latest research and interviews with experts in the field (including dozens of other stepmoms), to answer questions such as:

• How do you manage discipline when parents and stepparents disagree?
• How can you help stepsiblings get along?
• How do you handle birthdays, holidays, and weddings?
• What’s the best way to get along with your stepchild’s mother?
• When should you seek a therapist’s help?

Burns’s wise and empathetic suggestions go beyond struggle, stigma, and compromise, showing how sensitive, informed stepmothers can take charge—and pride—in their role, becoming more effective and fulfilled.

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• Published on: 2001-09-25
• Released on: 2001-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.87" h x 5.43" w x .59" l, .44 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

101 Tips for the Smart Stepmom: Expert Advice From One Stepmom to Another

101 Tips for the Smart Stepmom: Expert Advice From One Stepmom to Another
Laura Petherbridge (Author)

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Proven Advice from a Successful Stepmom

Today's woman who finds herself dating, engaged, or married to a man with kids often feels alone, misunderstood, and weary. In this down-to-earth book, Laura Petherbridge offers real answers from someone who's walked in her shoes--and now has good relationships with her grown stepchildren.

This topically arranged resource includes tips on parenting, coping with the children's mom, finances, and celebrating special occasions. The reader will learn how to better understand her blended family, navigate the drama, and gain the respect of her stepkids. The bite-sized tips are perfect for the busy stepmom, offering solutions she can immediately implement--and see change begin.

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My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family

My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family
Anne Burt (Editor)
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"[Includes] a take on just about every version of a newly extended family....Stellar."—Boston Globe

Eye-opening essays by esteemed writers about the rich and complicated lives of American stepfamilies: with the U.S. divorce rate hovering around 50 percent, most people recognize remarriage as a now-familiar occurrence. And remarriage often means stepfathers, -mothers, -brothers, and -sisters, and the formation of a new type of blended family. Jacquelyn Mitchard, Barbara Kingsolver, Roxana Robinson, Susan Cheever, and others share experiences of being stepdaughters, stepmothers, or ex-wives. Andrew Solomon writes about his relationship with his stepmother. Kate Christensen celebrates the stepfather who brought guidance to her life. There are essays from writers in the same family, each with a different take on his or her postnuclear situation: Phyllis Rose discusses her second husband's qualities as a stepfather, while her son, Ted Rose, writes about his tumultuous relationship with his stepbrother from his own father's remarriage. These poignant, heartfelt, sometimes biting tales remind us of the outdated myth of the perfect nuclear family while shedding light on what it means to forge relationships with stepfamily members.

• Rank: #258640 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.11" h x 6.18" w x .71" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents

How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents
Joseph A. Califano Jr. (Author)

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The highly acclaimed comprehensive guide to getting your child through the formative pre-teen, teen, and college years drug-free—now completely revised and updated.

Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high school, and excessive drinking is common at most colleges. But the good news is that a child who gets to age twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol or prescription drugs is virtually certain never to do so.

Drawing on more than two decades of research at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia), founder Joseph A. Califano, Jr., presents a clear, common-sense guide to helping kids stay drug-free. All parents dream of a healthy, productive, and fulfilling future for their children; Califano shows which specific actions work and what parents can do to teach, protect, and empower their children to have the greatest chance of making that future come true. Teenagers who learn about the risks of drugs from their parents are twice as likely never to try them, and this book provides the tools parents need to prepare their children for those crucial decision-making moments.

In this revised and updated edition, Califano tackles some of the newest obstacles standing between our kids and a drug-free life—from social media sites and cell phone apps to the explosion in prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse and the increased dangers and addictive power of marijuana. He reveals what teens can’t or won’t tell their parents about their thoughts on drugs and alcohol, and combines the latest research with his discussions with thousands of parents and teens about the challenges that widespread access to drugs and alcohol present, and how parents can instill in their teens the will and skills to choose not to use. Califano’s insightful and lively guide is as readable as it is informative.

• Rank: #1434213 in Books
• Published on: 2014-09-09
• Released on: 2014-09-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

The Big Magic Tow Truck

The Big Magic Tow Truck
Pamela J Tomlinson (Author)

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The Big Magic Tow Truck is about a Magic Tow Truck that stops to help a woman and her two boys when their car breaks down. The Magic Tow Truck driver showed the boys acceptance right from the start and this meant a lot to the boys. They wanted the Tow Truck driver to be their father. They all became a family and did fun things together and the boys felt as if they have found the father figure they have been looking for. The boys wanted someone that would accept them for who they are and this is something the tow truck driver did with all his heart.

• Rank: #458539 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 46 pages

Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies

Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies
Grace Gabe (Author), Jean Lipman-Blumen (Author)
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More and more people over age sixty-five are remarrying each year, and few families are prepared for the avalanche of feelings that comes when adult children learn that a parent is getting remarried. Psychiatrist Grace Gabe and award winning author Jean Lipman-Blumen provide a practical guide with advice and understanding for every family facing this increasingly common, complex situation. Using case studies from a variety of perspectives, chapters address concerns frequently faced, including:

* Who Should Inherit My Property? Managing Financial Conflict Between the Generations
* Health and Illness: Thank Heaven the Caretaker Is On Duty
*The Grandchildren: Innocent Pawns (or Occasional Bridges) in Stepfamily Conflicts

Written for both the couple getting married as well as their adult children, Step Wars is the only book in the market that focuses on the blending of adult families.

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• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Family Rules

Family Rules
Jeannette Lofas (Author)
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One of the most popular books ever on the 21st Century Family. Now that more than 60% of American families are divorced, repartnered or single-parent households, the rules managing this new form of family are different for the family to be secure or successful. This doesn't just happen, it must be learned.

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• Published on: 2013-12-15
• Released on: 2013-12-15
• Format: Kindle eBook

Letters To My Daughters: Poetic Affirmations Of Love from A Father

Letters To My Daughters: Poetic Affirmations Of Love from A Father
Avery Washington (Author)
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The author has written this book not only to dedicate it to his daughters, but to inspire, empower and encourage daughters around the world of all ages'. This book is a great tool to catapult daughters into a life of empowerment, inspiration, and strength to become successful at all their present and future endeavors. This book should be read and discussed in many different forums around the world. In his book Letters To My Daughters: Poetic Affirmations of Love From A Father, Avery Washington affirms his adoration and appreciation for his daughters in an incredibly endearing and empowering way. His poems flow from the heart of a protective father to the soul of a young girl who is learning herself and finding her way in the world. His poem, "God's Creation," reminds the reader of who she is and let's her know that she can use her intelligence and beauty to become all God created her to be. "Self Love" is a poignant reminder to all women that the power of love emanates from within and is a gift from God. In "You Are Never Alone," Avery applauds single mothers and charges them to press on and press in. He encourages them keep their heads up in order to be the foundation their children need and recognizes motherhood for the gift that it is. These poems are filled with words of inspiration, wisdom and power. His ability to transcend the page and go deep inside the heart of the reader is astonishing. The world is full of broken women and Avery Washington's desire to minister healing and wholeness through the written word is evidenced throughout this book.

Author, Avery Washington’s book, Letters to My Daughters comes at a time where it seems obsolete that father’s are instrumental in their daughters’ lives. It is so refreshing to read a collection of poetry dedicated to celebrating our young girls who will one day appreciate that love of their father.

The author so profoundly reminds us that the first love a girl has is that of her father. We believe his purpose for writing this book holds to the fact that young women go through various dilemmas as a result of an absentee father.

The love that the author poured into his poetry, on behalf of his daughters, is very inspiring in a society where young girls search for acceptance in all the wrong places.

This book of poems is a true gem because the author infuses life lessons, support, encouragement, love, and God to show us that it is essential that a father be present in his daughters’ existence.

Author, Avery Washington could have just easily spoken these very words to his daughters’ on a more personal note. We celebrate that he shared the love he has for his daughters’ through poetic versus whereby, other father’s will be encouraged to become the first love in their daughters’ lives.

Letters to My Daughters is written to strengthen the bond of the father/daughter relationship where it will become the norm for a young girl or young lady to truly know her father.

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• Published on: 2013-12-30
• Released on: 2013-12-30
• Format: Kindle eBook

The Package Deal: My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom

The Package Deal: My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom
Izzy Rose (Author)
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Meet Izzy Rose–a hilarious and chic new stepmom trying to come to terms with the package deal. A single “middle-class socialite” living in San Francisco, Izzy loved her career as a successful, Emmy Award-winning TV producer and she was fine with the fact that she was unmarried and kid-less at thirty-five. But, then she fell in love with an irresistible Southern man named Hank and her Izzy-centric lifestyle turned upside down.

In short order, Izzy finds herself saying I DO to becoming a wife and “instant mom” to Hank’s two sons and packing her bags for a new life in Austin, Texas. There, Izzy struggles to hold on to a bit of her professional identity while reinventing the stepmother role in her sassy, stylish, but also loving and vulnerable way. Honest and daring, The Package Deal is a toast to the richness of her new life and a tribute to any woman whose ever fallen in love and then asked, What exactly did I get myself into?

• Rank: #227909 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-05
• Released on: 2009-05-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .70" h x 5.20" w x 8.00" l, .49 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages