Blended Family Parenting

What does it mean to be a good parent? Are you a good parent when your child is compliant, but a bad parent when they're not? What if they're perfect at age three and challenging at 13? And what if your child has additional needs? This is an audiobook about parenting styles and what it takes to be a great parent. We know about tiger parents, helicopter parents, free-range parents, but have you heard of Tesla parents, leaf-blower parents and iPhone 6 parents? We can parent in so many ways, but is there a style that actually works?

If you're in a stepfamily, you may not be able to pause this book. It tracks the experiences of several real step-couples as they navigate the multiple issues and relationships in a stepfamily. Research validated strategies are clearly offered that, when incorporated, greatly reduce stepfamily conflicts.

Often children can find it difficult to go to sleep. It's much more fun to play with friends and family. Their busy minds find it difficult to unwind, and sleep can become problematic. The story has been crafted to include specific sleep time suggestions. The narration and pace of the story are designed to slow your child's rhythm down and bring them to gentle, restful sleep. The audiobook run time is around 30 minutes, and it will become a part of your child's bedtime routine.

This book is meant to be the ultimate guide to step-parenting, from understanding your role, building relationships with your stepchildren, navigating through legal complexities, to finding support networks. This is the guide, then, for you. Professional insights meshed with firsthand experiences give you a worldview on step-parenting. It will lead you through everyday strategies to deal with your stepchildren right down to how best to cope with potentially challenging issues like co-parenting with the biological parent.

Falling for my off-limits, incredibly gorgeous best friend's father. Meet Ethan Lambert, a successful billionaire CEO, and a former Navy SEAL. Despite the significant age gap... I'm 25, and he's 42. I find myself entangled in his world. I'm Olivia Martin, a thriving interior designer. When Ethan rescued me from a mugger, his demeanor infuriated me. Later, I discovered he was my new client. I’m forced to design his penthouse, so I can't avoid him. His gaze, his touch… I'm captivated. And let's not forget, he's my best friend's father. He's forbidden, off-limits, and extremely tempting. ...

Ryan and Jess blended their families after losing their spouses to cancer in 2010. This has led to an unexpected and often hilarious journey. Blended with Grit and Grace invites you to walk alongside them and learn what it's like to have eight kids under one roof. With wit and wisdom, Jess offers fresh perspectives on managing different parenting styles, developing family traditions, and meeting the special needs of your family.

The Back-Up Mom is an invaluable, candid guide to step-parenting from the personal experience of a mom who has been there, learned precious lessons and is ready to share her wisdom with you. A stepparent’s journey is never easy. Author Laura K. Wagner reaches out to other stepparents to let them know they are not alone in their journey. Laura intertwines valuable advice with a personal narrative that lets you know you’re not alone in your journey to become an effective stepparent.

When I started out on this journey, it all seemed pretty simple: I thought that love would be enough to see me through. I had no idea what it would take to create a fully blended family - just how many factors and emotions would be involved or how deep it would all go. How to Build a Family is the nurturing handbook I wish I'd been given. In it you'll find my experiences, as well as those of other blended families (because every family is unique), along with advice and tips from the experts who have guided me.

This audiobook will guide you through how to parent children that are not your own, offering practical advice, empathetic insights, and proven strategies to navigate the complexities of blended families with confidence and compassion.

Parents today need a different approach on discipline. The modern-day child is more sensitive, less patient, and constantly wearing us down. The world is different today, requiring parents to master a unique care-giving style to keep them one step ahead of their children. Love, Limits, & Lessons: Expanded Edition offers solid common sense solutions for raising capable and cooperative kids in today’s fast-paced world. Designed with the quick-reference approach in mind, this audiobook will allow you to turn immediately to the situations you find yourself faced with most often.

In this book for couples forming blended family units, practising psychotherapist and coach Katherine Walker explores all the issues that couples face when combining their families. From how to maintain the couple's own loving relationship, to handling teenage tantrums, this is an easy-to-follow guide that answers every key question, and offers practical solutions.

The story has been crafted to include specific sleep-time suggestions; the narration and pace of the story is designed to slow your child's rhythm down and bring them to gentle, restful sleep. The audiobook run time is around 30 minutes, and it can be played from any device and will become a part of your child's bedtime routine.

Every new stepmom finds themselves struggling with these same thoughts. Life is meant to be tough, and joining a new family and assuming the role of "mom" is one of the toughest things imaginable. But I've got good news: All your problems are temporary! If you have an action plan and know what you're doing, you can seamlessly make the transition to stepmom. This book will give you that action plan.

Morgan and Devon Gregson Bennett are an interracial creative power couple living happily enough in Brooklyn until a freak accident leaves a little girl orphaned in Los Angeles. Setting aside reservations about the price motherhood will exact on their marriage and careers, Morgan and Devon agree to adopt Vabeh, a bi-racial ethnic-hair-products heiress. Vabeh touches down in New York, wearing last season’s fur and on a mission to quickly distinguish herself from the other bold-faced names at her new school, the tony School for Spoiled Kids.

It’s so important for parents to stay aware of their mental health and work to improve it if necessary. One of the most impactful things a new parent can do in this process is to implement regular positive affirmations. Everyone can benefit from having a positive affirmation routine, no matter their mental health situation. Having positive and strong mental health is so important as a parent, since your mental state impacts your family and everyone around you. This one-hour audiobook will be an essential piece of helping you accomplish this.

Divorce is hard on kids. It can be really confusing when their parents stop living together. They may feel like they're the reason their family is breaking up, and that can lead to a lot of guilt and anxiety. They may also feel scared, alone, or angry.

"Unified Hearts: Proven Strategies for Cultivating Lasting Marital Harmony in Blended Families" delves deeply into the art and science of nurturing a successful blended family. This insightful book unpacks the complexity of merging families, offering a rich tapestry of strategies, from effective communication and conflict resolution to emotional support and financial management.

The Humorist: Adventures in Adulting & Horror Movies captures the moments both silly and sincere that define the process of coming-of-age, weaving in unexpected analogies to the history of horror cinema that speak to our universal need for human connection through cultural objects, the gift of fear, and the healing power of laughter.

Most people want a loving, long-term relationship more than anything else in life. If you choose to work through this book with your partner, it will result in your knowing each other better. You’ll discover more delightful and interesting aspects to fuel your lives together. You’ll find it possible to enjoy differences that make you both more interesting and exciting. The inevitable (unacceptable) differences you’ll come across can’t be avoided. But the “unacceptableness” can be negotiated.

In Stepmother, Bass explores the complex emotional, material, and spiritual terrain we share with our stepchildren, and with their other parents. Bringing together insights from sociology, history, clinical studies, and literature, she unpacks practical questions to help listeners explore the deeper issues: What is my definition of home? How does this relationship affect all the other relationships in this family? And how do I deal with the emotional triangles of stepfamily life?