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The Stepfamily Survival Guide
by Natalie Nichols Gillespie
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Books You Can Use: The Stepfamily Survival Guide
This
well-written book,
The Stepfamily Survival Guide, by Natalie Nichols Gillespie is
jam-packed with whitty anecdotes and practical advice. The author draws on
her own experiences in a stepfamily with five children. Relating to
stepchildren and learning how to love even those who don’t want to be
loved are strong components of the book. The book offers advice on
handling discipline, former spouses and co-parenting. She draws on a
Christian perspective and encourages stepparents to be positive and
encouraging to stepchildren and take the high road, even with ex-spouses
who are belligerent or hostile. Discussion questions at the end of each
chapter help stepparents explore their own feelings and reflect on how
their own stepfamily operates. She encourages her readers to take a strong
introspective gaze into their own thoughts and feelings, leading them to
reflect on how they can improve their stepfamily relationships. This is a
great book for new stepfamilies just forming and even seasoned
stepparents.
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The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family
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Books
You Can Use: The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family
Ron Deal's book is loaded with great advice.
Placing your marriage as a top-priority is a key tenet with Deal, and he
advises stepfamilies to understand that parents and stepparents have
different roles to live out. Placing your
marriage as a top-priority, is a key tenet with Deal, and he advises
stepfamilies to understand that parents and stepparents have different
roles to live out and not to force people into old nuclear family roles
who are not comfortable in them. The section on common pitfalls has advice
on loss and grief, the already looming holidays, family meetings and
finances. A chapter with questions posed by real stepfamilies features
advice from a variety of family counselors.
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Stepchildren Speak: Ten Grown-Up Stepchildren Teach Us How to Build
Healthy Stepfamilies
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Books You Can
Use: Stepchildren Speak
If
you’ve ever wondered what stepchildren truly think about their experiences
growing up in a stepfamily, then you need to check out Stepchildren Speak:
Ten Grown-Up Stepchildren Teach Us How to Build Healthy Stepfamilies.
Author Susan Phillips profiles ten people in their late twenties and early
thirties who grew up in stepfamilies. The interviewees describe how it
feels to juggle in between households and to navigate homes with different
values. This book does not spare any punches – it looks at stepfamilies
with honesty – in both their bad and good aspects. In some cases the
interviewees describe selfish and even abusive behavior from their
guardians. In others they talk about positive relationships with siblings
and parental figures, the merits of learning how to accept other people’s
differences, and talents they discovered because of the influence of a
stepparent. Drawing on their own experiences, the interviewees offer
advice to stepparents and stepchildren.
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Blending Families |
Stepwise: A Guide to Family Mergers |
The Blended Family Sourcebook |
Stepfamily Life Can Be Hell But It Doesn't Have
to Be. Seven Steps |
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Lesbian Stepfamilies: An
Ethnography of Love |
The Combined Family: A Guide to Creating
Successful Step-Relationships |
Merging Families: A Step-by-Step Guide for
Blended Families |
Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage & Parenting in the
First Decade |
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God Breathes on Blended Families |
God Breathes on Blended Families Workbook |
The Truth About Stepfamilies: Real American
Stepfamilies Speak Out |
Becoming Family: How to Build a Stepfamily That Really Works |
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Stepfamilies: Myths and
Realities |
Blended Families: Creating Harmony As You Build a New Home Life |
Family Rules: Helping Stepfamilies and Single Parents Build New Homes |
Let's Talk About It: Stepfamilies |
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Positive Discipline for Your Stepfamily: Nurturing Harmony, Joy and
Respect in Your New Family (Positive Discipline Series) |
Do Your Own California Adoption: Nolo's Guide for Stepparents and Domestic
Partners |
Yours, Mine and Ours: How Families Change When Remarried Parents Have a
Child Together |
How to Win as a Stepfamily |
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Stepfamily Realities: How to Overcome Difficulties and Have a Happy Family |
The Combined Family: A Guide to Creating Successful Step-Relationships |
Striving for Peace: Managing Conflict in Non-Custodial Homes |
Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage & Parenting in the First Decade |
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