How To Screw Up Your Kids: Blended Families, Blendered Style

How To Screw Up Your Kids: Blended Families, Blendered Style
Pamela Fagan Hutchins (Author)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

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 Winner, 2012 Houston Writers Guild Narrative Nonfiction Manuscript Contest. 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.

• Rank: #433410 in Books
• Published on: 2012-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 298 pages

7 Steps to Bonding with Your Stepchild

7 Steps to Bonding with Your Stepchild
Suzen J. Ziegahn (Author)
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Stepparenting & Blended Families

Practical, realistic, and upbeat advice--from sharing a bathroom to initiating conversations--for people who "inherit" children along with a new spouse. The success or failure of a stepparent to bond with stepchildren can make or break a new marriage. But this book has a refreshing message--it is possible to achieve longlasting, rewarding relationships with your new children.

Most stepparents feel caught in a bind because in order to connect with their stepchild, they have to reach out--but not too much, too little, or too deliberately. And relationships with stepchildren are inherently different from those with biological children who love their parent unconditionally. But these 7 basic steps will give you the essentials, from deciding what kind of stepparent you want to be to realizing that love comes later.

• Rank: #384453 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .59" w x 5.51" l, .20 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

• Parenting and Relationships
• Family Relationships
• Stepparenting and Blended Families