Conflict resolution strategies are hard to master outside the dynamics of a blended family. When two single parents marry and attempt to merge two independent, habit-infested families -- watch out!Whether it's marriage conflicts, relationship issues or family stress, once you read this e-book, you'll have a powerful tool to dramatically reduce conflict & increase fulfillment in your family.

It's the most daunting task many parents will ever face: bringing two growing families together into one brand new marriage. But even though statistics show that most remarriages are at high risk--especially when there are kids involved--more and more people are learning how to make them work and more and more kids are coming out of them with their psyches and souls intact. This honest and hopeful book looks at those successes--and at some failures--to show what they have in common: ten es...

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Maximize Your Success in the Life-Altering Job of Step-Parenting. **** No matter who you are, and how much experience you’ve had with kids, becoming a step-parent, or “blending†families is difficult work. The book presents 8 Strategies, in the form of action steps, to maximize anyone’s chances of success. Written in a non-apologetic voice, the authors present strong and specific direction for handling common problems. Vignettes of 30 real-life family situations support the strategies su...

Are you a single parent?Feeling lost and alone, with children to take care of?PICKING UP THE PIECES is written by a Malaysian single mother of three. Ten long years as a single parent led Jocelyn Ooi to observe and record her insights in this book, filled with personal anecdotes, life lessons and simple advice for every possible situation a modern Asian single parent may face in today’s fast-paced world. From learning how to accept yourself, connecting with your children an...

Healthier relationships and personal boundaries are just one word away with this inspirational guide on embracing the power of “no”Whether in love, work, family, or the world, the need to say no is sometimes imperative. And rather than accepting another transgression or being bullied, learning to set healthy boundaries is essential for our health and well-being.The Need to Say Noincludes helpful advice on how to say no without fear—and without injury to ei...

When you are in a relationship with a critical partner—someone who constantly blames you and holds you to unrealistic standards—you may feel picked apart, unworthy, and unhappy. You may start to wonder if you’ll ever be good enough for your partner. This guide can help you repair your relationship by getting to the root of why your partner criticizes you so that you both can build a more loving and supportive partnership.Based in schema therapy, The Critical Partner can he...

The break up of the family will almost certainly mean the end of every day contact between a father and his child, even where he has cared for his baby since birth. For some dads, this will be too much for them to bear. Others will learn to survive without their children.I Want to See My Kids! is a complete overview of a system that professes to protect the family – father, mother and child - but often fails in every respect.It is a moving account of fathers who face the ex...

Are you parenting with love—or repeating the past without realizing it?Your words become your child’s inner voice. Your reactions shape their emotional world. But what if your past is influencing your parenting in ways you don’t even recognize?This groundbreaking book will help you understand, heal, and transform your parenting—so you don’t pass on the emotional wounds you once carried. Whether you struggle with los...

Starting a relationship with a new person is always an adventure, and that adventure comes with extra thrills when your significant other is also a parent. Not only do you have to incorporate one new person into your life; you have to welcome that personÆs children too. This guide will teach new and future stepparents how to:Meet and build relationships with potential stepchildrenHandle situations involving the other biological parentInvolve stepchildren i...

Family Art Therapy is designed to help the reader incorporate clinical art therapy intervention techniques into family therapy practice. Expressive modalities are often used in work with families, particularly visual art forms, and there is already considerable evidence and literature that point to a positive link between the two. This text is unique in that it draws together, for the first time in a single volume, an overview of the evolution of the theories and techniques from t...

Many books address how to live with the death of a loved one. Why Whisper, faces the more arduous task of living with yourself. Suicide seizes more than one life. It takes some life from everyone around it. When Joanne Mazzottas 32 year old son Danny took his own life, part of her died with him. In this gripping account of one mothers journey alongside grief, Joanne bares her soul and her skeletons to bring us an honest and insightful look at addiction, loss, hope, suicide, and the endurin...