The Stepfamily Survival Guide

Offers practical solutions to common challenges, including how to alleviate stepfamily stress, apply a united front in discipline styles, and approach co-parenting with grace.

Guides readers to help cope with the physical and emotional changes from becoming part of a stepfamily, including dealing with stepsiblings, shifting from one family to another, and privacy issues.

Guides readers to help cope with the physical and emotional changes from becoming part of a stepfamily, including dealing with stepsiblings, shifting from one family to another, and privacy issues.

A clinical psychologist helps stepparents come to terms with their new role and take steps to create a cohesive blended family.

This is a practical guide for step-parents to help them in the difficult process of forging relationships with another person's children. It offers sensible and practical advice for dealing with conflicts and the inevitable jealousies which arise in this complex relationship (especially when preceded by divorce).

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships is designed to be useful both to stepfamily members themselves and to a wide variety of practitioners, as well as to educators, judges, mediators, lawyers and medical personnel.

You want the truth, not a sitcom of illusion. You want authenticity, not just perception. You want to know...Can stepfamilies be done right? Can God really bring beauty from ashes for your "blended" family? "Yes!" say stepmother and stepson, Joann and Seth Webster. In spite of past experience, you can walk with divine confidence, past failures and mixed expectations, to find hope for your future together. Joann and Seth Webster take you where few would ever tread, back into their painful years as a newly blended family when life revolved around "The Divorce," the "Other Parents" and the co-dependant behavior of teenaged brother who reenacted destructive roles that felt familiar. You will also discover what every stepfamily must survive in order to thrive: *Choosing the best course for discipline *Determining a role for the stepparentIs there an "easy" way to do visitation? *Dealing with the "ghosts" in each member's past *Living through the three cycles of stepfamily life *Adjusting expectations for becoming a "real family"

The picture on the front cover has a story behind it. In 1991, I ordered them through a catalog. Without even skipping a beat I separated the kids by family. Why I did this, I dont have a clue. Perhaps, its natural to cling to who belongs to whom.