Through realistic and trusted advice, this innovative new guide brings the celebration back to the holidays for blended families. Answering a myriad of questions unique to blended families, this comprehensive resource offers suggestions on how to determine who hosts milestone birthday parties, bar and bat mitzvahs, and Quinceaneras; coordinate who attends sporting events and concerts; and how to respectfully attend a former relative’s funeral. A resource guide listing websites and books completes this new manners manual, which guides blended families from the first recitals and holidays apart to sporting events and graduations with fewer arguments and more respect.
"Full of excellent, practical advice, this is recommended for all public libraries." Library Journal
About the Author
Jann Blackstone-Ford is a certified divorce and stepfamily mediator and has contributed to The Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, and Working Mother. She is the founder and director of Bonus Families, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the peaceful coexistence between separated or divorced parents and their new families. She is the coauthor of Ex-Etiquette for Parents and Ex-Etiquette for Weddings and the author of The Custody Solution Sourcebook, Midlife Motherhood, and My Parents Are Divorced, Too. Sharyl Jupe is a regular columnist for the Bonus Families website and the coauthor of Ex-Etiquette for Parents and Ex-Etiquette for Weddings. Together they raise two children they share through marriage.
Product Details
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1 edition (October 1, 2007)