Learn to avoid feeling defensive, competitive, and alienated. Develop healthy relationships in the first year. Exercise discipline effectively, deal with the extended family, and create new stepfamily traditions.
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A seasoned stepparent and clinical psychologist offers stepparents a viable new alternative: taking control of their new position in the stepfamily and building a solid "family plan." Readers develop a personalized plan for blended family cohesion, and learn how to avoid feeling defensive, competitive, and alienated, build healthy relationships in the crucial first year, discipline the children, deal with the extended family, create new stepfamily traditions, and keep the marriage alive.
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Suzen Ziegahn, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist specializing in stepparenting issues. She lives with her stepfamily in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
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This review is from: The Stepparent's Survival Guide: A Workbook for Creating a Happy Blended Family (Paperback)
The concept of this book is all very well, and I think the idea of creating a stepfamily plan is quite a good one, but the execution is uninspiring: the writing style is boring, the layout presents you with big chunks of dense text and overall the tone isn't at all engaging.Worst of all, though, the author tells stepparents once again that they "have to put the children first" and accept being second for their partner. Come on, there is reliable, recent research that shows that this is the best possible recipe for another divorce! An approach that is proven to be far more effective for conserving remarriages and ultimately more stable for the children is for the couple to focus on becoming a strong team and to parent from that team. Remarriage experts agree that guilting stepparents into accepting "second place" is not the way to make a successful stepfamily. Susan Wisdom's "Stepcoupling" is a far better, more engaging and more helpful book for struggling stepfamilies.
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stepfamily plan, stepfamily vision, more respect for parents, stepfamily traditions, other bioparent, work with stepfamilies, new parenting style, stepfamily working, stepfamily members, stepfamily type, stepfamily history, respect from the children, parenting team, the bioparent, myth apply, stepfamily will, many stepparents, other stepfamilies, stepfamily journal, stepfamily where, stepfamily situation, many stepfamilies, previous family Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Case History, The Stepparent's Survival Guide, Quick Stage, Summary Step, Assert Your Role New!
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Welcome to The Stepparent's Survival Guide! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stepfamily plan, stepfamily vision, more respect for parents, stepfamily traditions, other bioparent, work with stepfamilies, new parenting style, stepfamily working, stepfamily members, stepfamily type, stepfamily history, respect from the children, parenting team, the bioparent, myth apply, stepfamily will, many stepparents, other stepfamilies, stepfamily journal, stepfamily where, stepfamily situation, many stepfamilies, previous family Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Case History, The Stepparent's Survival Guide, Quick Stage, Summary Step, Assert Your Role New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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