Stepfamilies
Living in a Blended Family by
Skylight
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LIVING IN A BLENDED FAMILY Is a 12 page, hand sized support booklet for children that talks about the common thoughts, feelings and issues living in a blended family can cause and gives ideas about ways to manage them. It also talks about how to ask for extra help if you need it. Based on recent NZ research and using child specialist expertise, this colourful booklet is one of Skylight's new children's support booklet series. The series offer key support information for older children in an engaging format, helping them to be able to think about sensitive and difficult issues that can impact their lives. FOR MULTIPLE ORDER DISCOUNTS (5 or more copies) PHONE 0800 299 100.
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Blended Family Success: Practical Solutions to Step Family Challenges by
Adele Cornish (NZ)
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25.00
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This practical guide shares insights and well-tested advice relating to the typical struggles of blended families. It provides skills and strategies to try and reassure readers that a positive blended family life can be achieved and so rewarding for all.
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Shared Parenting: Raising Your Children Cooperatively After Separation by
Jill Burrett and Michael Green (Australia)
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This book shows how shared parenting can work after separation and how both parents can maintain meaningful relationships with their children. The authors provide sample parenting plans – both complex and simple – for various types of separated families. The practical tools they offer work in every party’s best interests – especially the children’s. They also cite supporting research that indicates how important it is for children to continue meaningful relationships after family breakdown. Myths and misconceptions are dealt with, together with practical advice on how parents can get past their hurt and anger and focus on approaches that will benefit their children. The authors also tackle the nuts and bolts of weekly routines and include useful suggestions on timetabling and communication between households.
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Do You Sing Twinkle? A Story About Remarriage and New Family by
Sandra Levins, illustrated by Bryan Langdo (USA)
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Living apart from a parent can be a hard adjustment for kids, and if that parent remarries and has stepchildren, things can get really confusing. Told from a young boy’s point of view, Do You Sing Twinkle? sensitively addresses many feelings and questions that children may have while adjusting to remarriage and a blended family after their parents’ divorce. An extensive note to parents by psychologist Jane Annunziata is included to help parents learn easy ways to stay connected with their kids and to talk to their children about common but difficult emotions that can come with divorce, remarriage or blended families. For ages 4–8.
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Ginny Morris and Dad’s New Girlfriend by
Mary Collins Gallagher, illustrated by Whitney Martin (USA)
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Ginny Morris’s parents are divorced, which is bad enough, but now her Dad has a girlfriend! Who is this strange man who’s become a clean freak and smiles all the time? Will her Dad still be the same dad? Will he still have time for her? Does this ruin any chance her parents will get back together? Does her Mom care that Dad has a girlfriend? Is it OK if Ginny likes his girlfriend? Ginny sorts through her feelings with the help of her best friend, her journal and, finally, some heart-to-heart talks with Mom and Dad themselves. Fun black and white illustrations. Suited to ages 8–12.
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This Is Me and My Two Families: An Awareness Scrapbook/Journal for Children Living in Stepfamilies by
Marla D Evans (USA)
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This unique awareness scrapbook/journal is designed for children in stepfamilies to work on with their parents, stepparents, foster or adoptive parents, grandparents or step grandparents, or other concerned adults. Working together, children and adults can learn about their new family situations through drawing, pasting, writing and filling in blanks. This book can also be used by therapists, counsellors and teachers to help children and their various families resolve conflicts and open up new ways of understanding and relating. For ages 4–12.
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Stepfamily Life: Why it is different - and how to make it work by
Margaret Newman
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The challenges that members of a stepfamily usually encounter are explored in this book because stepfamily life is different, and so different solutions are needed to get it ‘on track’ – and, more importantly, to help it survive. In this reassuring and straightforward book, Margaret Newman considers a wide range of stepfamily scenarios and gives practical suggestions as to what to do in each case to overcome any difficulties. The reader is helped to better understand the dynamics and how to rationally approach each family issue that arises. Using case studies and the experience of working with a broad range of stepfamily situations, the author shows how, despite the obstacles, a positive stepfamily life can be achieved.
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