Stepfamily Books

Beyond the Brady Bunch: Hope and Help for Blended Families

A message of hope for blended families, from a couple who have been in the trenches – and made it.

Blending a family is far more messy and complicated than any television show portrays. Beyond the Brady Bunch is a heart book, not a how-to book. Christians who find themselves in the midst of step-family life often feel hopeless and far from God, struggling with grief and unforgiveness. From personal experience the authors have found that all the how-to steps in the world don’t work if there isn’t first a heart change. Speaking with honesty and vulnerability they share their own mistakes and how God dealt with their hearts. The book will help stretch hearts, minds and homes past the image of “perfect” and another “happily ever after” into the hope of God’s promise to restore, heal and rebuild.

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Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

A groundbreaking and truly stepmother-centered way of understanding the tensions that seem to define relations between women and their stepchildren

Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. And what woman with stepchildren has not—in order to defuse the often overwhelming challenges of the role—referred to herself as a “stepmonster”?

As Hope Edelman does in her book for motherless daughters, Wednesday Martin’s empowering and original Stepmonster unlocks the emotional mysteries of why stepmothers think and feel and act the way they do. Martin draws upon her own experience as a stepmother, interviews with other stepmothers and stepchildren, and fascinating insights from literature, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology to reveal the little-understood realities of this most demanding role.

Stepmonster illuminates the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, considers the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, counteracts the cultural notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the challenges they encounter, identifies the “Five Step-Dilemmas That Create Conflict,” and considers the emotional and social challenges men with children face when they remarry.

Finally, in an unexpected twist, Martin shows why the myth of the Wicked Stepmother is our single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are and how they feel.

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	The Single Girl’s Guide to Marry… by Sally Bjornsen $10.08
	No One’s the Bitch: A Ten-Step P… by Jennifer Newcomb Marine $12.20
	The Enlightened Stepmother: Revo… by Perdita K. Norwood $10.85

Living In A Step-family Without Getting Stepped On

“When two families unite, they don’t blend, they collide,” says Dr. Kevin Leman, bestselling author of The New Birth Order Book. But he also believes, “You can blend a family without breaking it. The principles in this book will help you wage the battle of blending your family—and come up not only a survivor but a winner!”

By understanding the impact that birth order has on each family member, parents are better equipped to ease the transition into a new, different but functional family unit. Using his signature humor and real life examples, Dr. Leman provides both insight and practical advice about discipline, self-respect, parental authority, and the importance of the marriage relationship.

Read more…Living In A Step-family Without Getting Stepped On Helping Your Children Survive The Birth Order Blender