Stepmonster

Stepmonster
Wednesday Martin (Author)
(133)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

An honest and groundbreaking guide to understanding the complicated emotions that develop between stepmothers and children.

 

When faced with often overwhelming challenges, what woman with stepchildren is unfamiliar with that “stepmonster” feeling? Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. To guide women new to this role—and empower those who are struggling with it—Wednesday Martin draws upon her own experience as a stepmother. She's frank about the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, she considers the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, and she counteracts the cultural notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the problems that often develop. Along the way, she interviews other stepmothers and stepchildren and offers up fascinating insights from literature, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology that explain the little-understood realities of this unique parent-child relationship and—in an unexpected twist—shows why the myth of the Wicked Stepmother is the single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are and how they feel.

 

• Rank: #39714 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-05-04
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Format: Kindle eBook

Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
Wednesday Martin (Author)
(105)

Download: $13.75 (as of 06/02/2013 15:24 PST)

Stepparenting & Blended Families

An honest and groundbreaking guide to understanding the complicated emotions that develop between stepmothers and children.

 

When faced with often overwhelming challenges, what woman with stepchildren is unfamiliar with that “stepmonster” feeling? Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. To guide women new to this role—and empower those who are struggling with it—Wednesday Martin draws upon her own experience as a stepmother. She's frank about the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, she considers the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, and she counteracts the cultural notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the problems that often develop. Along the way, she interviews other stepmothers and stepchildren and offers up fascinating insights from literature, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology that explain the little-understood realities of this unique parent-child relationship and—in an unexpected twist—shows why the myth of the Wicked Stepmother is the single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are and how they feel.

 

• Rank: #39926 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-05-04
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Love Him, Love His Kids

Love Him, Love His Kids
Stan Wenck (Author), Connie J. Hansen (Author)
(35)

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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

The Courage To Be A Stepmom

The Courage To Be A Stepmom
Sue Patton Thoele (Author)
(47)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

This practical and comforting guide addresses stepmothers' commonly felt emotions such as guilt, shame, grief, frustration, fear, and anger plus offers hands-on advice for dealing with your step kids and their father.

Paperback book published by Council Oak Books in 2003.

• Rank: #37774 in eBooks
• Published on: 2010-11-04
• Released on: 2010-11-04
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

A Career Girl's Guide to Becoming a Stepmom

A Career Girl's Guide to Becoming a Stepmom
Jacquelyn B. Fletcher (Author)
(15)

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Stepparenting & Blended Families

You have an exciting, fulfilling job. You've fallen in love with the man of your dreams—and met his three kids! Now what? Jacquelyn B. Fletcher shows how any professional woman turned wife and instant stepmother can build on the skills she employs at work—organization, team-building, goal-setting, and planning—to succeed at home in her new role as stepmom. Drawing on the latest research, her own experiences, and those of other real-life stepmothers, Fletcher offers advice, hope, encouragement, and much-needed answers to common conundrums, including:

• Why don't I have control over my own schedule?
• What kind of relationship do I want with my stepkids?
• What if I want to have a baby of my own?
• How do we create a budget that feels fair if I make more money than my husband does?

A Career Girl's Guide to Becoming a Stepmom is essential reading for the professional woman who has it all—and then suddenly has more than she expected.

• Rank: #62432 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-10-13
• Released on: 2009-10-13
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1