Product Description

A million new stepfamilies form each year, and none of these blended families makes the adjustment unscathed. Most encounter many difficulties, from deep-seated emotional trauma to the minor skirmishes that every family faces every day. They'll find solid, tested advice here on how to overcome the problems and accentuate the rewards of their new relationships.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1063144 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-20
• Released on: 1997-08-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Amazon.com Review
Ask a stepparent about the most difficult challenge of stepfamily life, and you'll likely hear the answer, "Discipline!" Stepparents and remarried parents alike are often baffled as to how to deal with the children in this new family. Who makes the parenting decisions? Who lays down the law? What happens when Mom's house has one set of rules and Dad's house has another? What do you do when parents have different ideas about discipline? In Positive Discipline for Blended Families, family counselors Jane Nelsen and Cheryl Erwin join seminar leader H. Stephen Glenn in tackling these and other sticky questions. The authors provide highly informative background information and time-tested, positive solutions in an easy-to-digest, helpful guide. Stepfamilies need a great deal of support, and this book offers no-nonsense assistance. --Ericka Lutz

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The Only Book You Need to Bring Your New Family Together -- Review

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The Only Book You Need to Bring Your New Family Together

Customer Reviews

Create a Thriving Environment for Children in Mixed Families
So many families today are "blended" with new marriages, children from previous marriages, and for the sake of the CHILDREN this book provides pivotal information to help parents and step-parents deal with the everyday problems that are most common and in need of resolution.
This book covers areas such as: "Mistakes are Opportunities to Learn" as opposed to just go on making more mistakes that can ultimately but unknowingly hurt the children. Open and healthy communication with the natural parent of the children; Taking children out of the middle; treating the other parent with respect; Avoiding alienation; "Don't be a Disneyland Parent;" Nonverbal communication; "If the adults are creating conflict - stop it!" "If the child is creating conflict - Understand it!"
Even if you learn just one thing that will make a positive difference in the psychological health and self-esteem of the children, or learn a new method of positive discipline that will help your child overcome a negative pattern, this book is worth buying.
This book is especially useful for families where there is a communication breakdown, either with the children, or either of the natural parents or step- parents. Highly Recommended!

Barbara Rose, Ph.D. author of Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE and If God Was Like Man
Editor, inspire! magazine

"so true" situations
I picked this book off the library shelf to help me be a better stepmother. The more I read, the more it educated me on good and bad behavior between divorced parents and how they "mistreat" their childs relationship with the non-custodial parent(s). As is in my husband's case. If you have an ex-spouse and children, this book speaks the truth on how to act and not act.

Can't recommend the book
THis is the first book I read on blended families and was very annoyed by the patronizing style of writing, the artificial dialogues used to illustrate a point and the concepts portrayed.

Better books are out there, check out Kevin Leman with his humorous approach and engaging examples.

Best regards
Michael and Kristin