Step Family Relationship

Raising kids is hard and confusing, especially with the amount of pressure put on parents these days. Parents are expected to stay on top of their kids’ cognitive and emotional development, all while working from 9 to 5 each day. Add the numerous stresses of having to deal with real-world demands outside the home and you have a recipe for burnout.

New York Times best-selling relationship expert Maggie Scarf shares in-depth stories of seven remarried couples - revealing the unique challenges they face as they strive to achieve lasting intimacy and familial harmony. Through cautionary tales and stories of hope, Scarf offers guidance for handling everything from children who reject the new family dynamic to the thorny issue of money. Loaded with practical wisdom and searing accounts, The Remarriage Blueprint is a definitive road map to a happy, thriving, integrated household.

Organized children are raised, not born. That’s the philosophy behind this confidence-building, sanity-saving book. Fostering organized thinking in your child will help with concrete concerns (think a tidier bedroom!) and build critical life skills like learning to plan and grasping the big picture. Dr. Korb’s 5 Steps to Raising an Organized Child apply to all ages. So, whether you have an infant or a teenager, it’s never too late (or too early!) to foster organization in him or her and harmony in your whole family.

While there are plenty of resources available to establish healthy sleeping patterns for babies and toddlers, there's very little guidance for parents who want to help their preschool and elementary school children (ages 3-10) sleep well. However, parents can be effective sleep coaches for their children once they know what to do. Become Your Child's Sleep Coach meets that need by giving you a simple plan to coach your children to be wonderful sleepers, as well as methods to deal with bed wetting, sleep walking, night terrors, and other sleep issues.

If your kids aren’t learning about sex from you, what are they learning about sex, and who is teaching them? Having "the talk" with your child does not have to be a terrifying and awkward event. Armed with The Sex-Wise Parent, Dr. Janet Rosenzweig’s groundbreaking book, you may find you never have to have "the talk". Dr. Rosenzweig shows you how you can help protect your children from sexual abuse, trauma, and bullying through your everyday interaction with them.

What’s missing in your stepfamily? If you’re in a stepfamily, you may feel as if something is missing. You can’t put it into words yet, but you know it’s a problem. Maybe you’re new to this. Maybe not. Still, everything from badly-behaved exes to parenting rifts causes squabbling that disrupts the harmony in your home. The Stepmom’s Book of Boundaries helps you thrive despite rocky relationships, schedule snafus, and more.

Turn In-Law Anxiety into Genuine Connection—For the Sake of Your Family’s Future You raised your child with love, but now they’ve joined another family. What happens next? Will your relationship with their in-laws feel natural—or like an ongoing, silent negotiation? For many parents and grandparents, introducing new in-laws brings unspoken expectations, cultural clashes, and a quiet fear of being sidelined. Misunderstandings grow, family gatherings feel forced, and your child feels caught in the middle. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Art of Co-Parents-In-Law Harmony ...

Even if you're just earning an allowance now, you can leap into a prosperous financial future—No Wall Street experience required. Are you a teenager overwhelmed by financial jargon? Or a parent eager to instill good money habits in your child but don't know where to start? Financial wisdom isn't taught in schools , leaving many young adults unequipped for the real world. Statistics show more than 74% of teenagers lack practical knowledge about managing money. As unsettling as it sounds, there's hope.

Are you and your little one on the brink of embarking on the thrilling journey of preschool? As a parent, the prospect of this milestone can be both exhilarating and nerve-wracking. Fear not! Allow me to introduce the ultimate guide to infuse the preschool experience with joy and growth. Presenting Ready, Set, Preschool: A Parent-Child Guide for the Big Step Ahead.

With some expert guidance and God's help, you can have tremendous influence in your stepchild's life and grow in your faith along the way. Seasoned stepmom Laurie Polich Short understands and empathizes with the difficult job you face. Drawing on extensive research, biblical teaching, and her own real-life experience (including an insightful chapter cowritten with her stepson, Jordan), Laurie provides practical and spiritual advice to help you fully embrace and succeed in your role as stepparent.

You don't want to spend months worrying if you are doing things "right", while your child struggles to understand what you're trying to teach. Stephany Hicks knows the ins and outs of toilet training, and tried every approach under the sun when she was raising her own three children. Now, she's compiled all you need to know in order to take your child out of diapers and into the next stage of their development as easily and quickly as possible.

Fourteen years ago, Mike Milligan learned he would become a grandfather for the first time. He was surprised to find that there was little or no information available on what it means to be a grandfather, how to make the most of the experience, and how to be the best grandfather possible. Sure, there were shelves of books dedicated to grandmothers - all with cuddly covers depicting spring bouquets or gentle little lambs. But there was not a single book that spoke to him, a 64-year-old grandfather-to-be. It struck him that there were countless other grandfathers out there experiencing this same feeling of neglect.

The simple yet life-changing 10-step process this audiobook outlines will help you to make the best choices for your children to ensure their long-term health, take actions that will protect your children during this time, communicate productively with your co-parent, and release the past so you can create a love-filled future with your children.

Sleep Training for Babies: Here’s the perfect solution if you want to enjoy quality sleep every night and help your newborn develop healthy sleeping habits. Is your baby constantly waking up throughout the night? Contrary to popular belief, this doesn’t have to be your new reality! Not only will you be able to get more quality sleep, but your children will develop a good sleeping routine. This audiobook will help you understand the science behind quality sleep and sleep training. It offers practical tips and tricks that are easy to apply and maintain!

This practical and efficient guide for parents of teenagers provides tried-and-true parenting concepts that are sure to help create a peaceful and happy relationship with your teens, and pave their way into a meaningful adulthood. Raising a teenager in the era of fake news, social media dominance, and social unrest is quite a challenge. Not knowing how to help your teenager avoid common mistakes, deal with new problems, and navigate the stormy waters of our modern society is common - especially since most of us parents have been raised in a different society 10 or 15 years ago.

With rock-solid faith, a stronger parent-child bond, love, and shared values, you and your teen will be better prepared to face the trials of life and develop a much stronger defense against any destructive threats that come against your teen. No matter what your faith background is, you are qualified to put on your spiritual parenting battle armor for a more empowered and resilient family. If you’re ready to experience this powerful parent-teen connection, this audiobook is for you!

A stepmother constantly sees to others' needs - those of her spouse, her kids, his kids, their kids. She also has to work so hard to maintain her marriage or deal with the emotional turmoil that can follow divorce and marrying again, that she may neglect her own needs. It's no wonder, then, that stepmothers often ask: Who's taking care of me? This is where Sue Patton Thoele steps in, offering practical advice and emotional support in a new edition of her book, The Courage to Be a Stepmom.

Radical Parenting brings together the revolutionary ideas in psychotherapist Brad Blanton's other books - Radical Honesty, Practicing Radical Honesty, and Honest to God (with Neale Donald Walsch). The honesty and openness of the author himself about his own children is combined with the wisdom gleaned from years of work with people suffering from how they were raised. This book does no less than create an entirely new blueprint for parenting.

In There's No Such Thing as 'Naughty', mum to two young children, journalist and children's mental health advocate Kate Silverton shares her groundbreaking new approach to parenting under-fives that will make life much easier for parents and an awful lot more fun. Kate's simple and unique strategies, easy-to-follow techniques and scripts will equip you to manage those tricky everyday challenges with ease - and help to ensure you enjoy the strongest bond possible with your child, both now and in the years ahead.

Your child can win the bedwetting battle! Each night, millions of children go to bed hoping that this will be the night they wake up dry. If your child is one of them, you know how frustrating and painful this problem can be. Did I do something to cause this problem? You wonder. How long until my child outgrows bedwetting? Will he (or she) ever be able to go to a sleepover without worrying about being found out?