Author: Harold H. Bloomfield
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786880171
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Here are innovative ways to defuse inevitable hostilities in blended families, cope with common fantasies of instant success, end power struggles, and encourage communication. Featuring exercises, visualizations--and a comprehensive bibliography and list of helpful organizations--this indespensable guide is both practical and compassionate.
Making Peace in Your Step-Family
Author: Harold H. Bloomfield
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786880171
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Here are innovative ways to defuse inevitable hostilities in blended families, cope with common fantasies of instant success, end power struggles, and encourage communication. Featuring exercises, visualizations--and a comprehensive bibliography and list of helpful organizations--this indespensable guide is both practical and compassionate.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786880171
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Here are innovative ways to defuse inevitable hostilities in blended families, cope with common fantasies of instant success, end power struggles, and encourage communication. Featuring exercises, visualizations--and a comprehensive bibliography and list of helpful organizations--this indespensable guide is both practical and compassionate.
Living in a Step-Family without Getting Stepped On
Author: Kevin Leman
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418529818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418529818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"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.
Secrets to Stepfamily Success
Author: Gloria Lintermans
Publisher: Gloria Lintermans
ISBN: 1605944181
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
THE SECRETS TO STEPFAMILY SUCCESS offers tools that can significantly lower the alarming 70% rate of step and blended family divorce, helping families evolve into highly nurturing, reliable refuges of warmth, safety, encouragement, strength, caring, and joy. Step and blended families have a unique dynamic with which couples must cope, along with all the other normal challenges of life and marriage. See how these families differ in up to sixty structural and dynamic ways from typical intact biological families--including consisting of two co-parenting homes and ex-spouses--and learn how to successfully recognize and manage these challenges. For most couples, trying to build a successful remarriage can mysteriously bring out their deepest personal fears, longings, shames, and hopes. The key to not only survival, but living this journey well, begins with discovering opportunities to heal and to succeed; it is not about blame or badness. With the right preparation and resources, a multi-home step or blended family can be a stable and solid foundation for co-parents and children. Gloria Lintermans is the author of THE HEALING POWER OF GRIEF: The Journey Through Loss to Life and Laughter, THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to New Love, THE NEWLY DIVORCED BOOK OF PROTOCOL: How to Be Civil When You Hate Their Guts, and RETCO CHIC: A Guide to Fabulous Vintage and Designer Resale Shopping in North America & Online. Her articles have appeared in local and national magazines, and she is a retired newspaper columnist whose column has been syndicated in English and Spanish language newspapers worldwide.
Publisher: Gloria Lintermans
ISBN: 1605944181
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
THE SECRETS TO STEPFAMILY SUCCESS offers tools that can significantly lower the alarming 70% rate of step and blended family divorce, helping families evolve into highly nurturing, reliable refuges of warmth, safety, encouragement, strength, caring, and joy. Step and blended families have a unique dynamic with which couples must cope, along with all the other normal challenges of life and marriage. See how these families differ in up to sixty structural and dynamic ways from typical intact biological families--including consisting of two co-parenting homes and ex-spouses--and learn how to successfully recognize and manage these challenges. For most couples, trying to build a successful remarriage can mysteriously bring out their deepest personal fears, longings, shames, and hopes. The key to not only survival, but living this journey well, begins with discovering opportunities to heal and to succeed; it is not about blame or badness. With the right preparation and resources, a multi-home step or blended family can be a stable and solid foundation for co-parents and children. Gloria Lintermans is the author of THE HEALING POWER OF GRIEF: The Journey Through Loss to Life and Laughter, THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to New Love, THE NEWLY DIVORCED BOOK OF PROTOCOL: How to Be Civil When You Hate Their Guts, and RETCO CHIC: A Guide to Fabulous Vintage and Designer Resale Shopping in North America & Online. Her articles have appeared in local and national magazines, and she is a retired newspaper columnist whose column has been syndicated in English and Spanish language newspapers worldwide.
Family Disintegration
Author: Anton Purcell
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590330364
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The contemporary family is being distracted, disturbed and distraught by societal pressures from every direction. The nuclear family concept, believed crucial to child rearing, is becoming passé according to census data. Or has the wave of disruption to families crested? It is hoped that this bibliography will serve as a useful tool to researchers seeking further information on families and the pressures being exerted upon them in the 21st century.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590330364
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The contemporary family is being distracted, disturbed and distraught by societal pressures from every direction. The nuclear family concept, believed crucial to child rearing, is becoming passé according to census data. Or has the wave of disruption to families crested? It is hoped that this bibliography will serve as a useful tool to researchers seeking further information on families and the pressures being exerted upon them in the 21st century.
Scouting
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.
Making Peace With Your Past
Author: Harold H. Bloomfield
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062010530
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Do You: Harbor guilt or grudges from past relationships? Feel plagued by thoughts of regret? Think "Oh, no, not again!" when personal problems arise? Wonder why life hasn't turned out the way you wanted? Feel anxious or depressed about your future? Seem to be less happy as time goes by? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, this book can help you make peace with your past -- here and now. The past lives on in everything we think, feel, say, and do. Medical studies show that adults who've had adverse or traumatic past experiences are much more vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Now, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Harold Bloomfield, bestselling author of Making Peace with Your Parents and Making Peace with Yourself, offers practical, scientifically proven techniques that can help you heal the wounds of the past; transform feelings of pain, shame, and blame into high self-worth; and reawaken to the magic and joy of being alive.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062010530
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Do You: Harbor guilt or grudges from past relationships? Feel plagued by thoughts of regret? Think "Oh, no, not again!" when personal problems arise? Wonder why life hasn't turned out the way you wanted? Feel anxious or depressed about your future? Seem to be less happy as time goes by? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, this book can help you make peace with your past -- here and now. The past lives on in everything we think, feel, say, and do. Medical studies show that adults who've had adverse or traumatic past experiences are much more vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Now, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Harold Bloomfield, bestselling author of Making Peace with Your Parents and Making Peace with Yourself, offers practical, scientifically proven techniques that can help you heal the wounds of the past; transform feelings of pain, shame, and blame into high self-worth; and reawaken to the magic and joy of being alive.
The Smart Stepfamily
Author: Ron L. Deal
Publisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 076420159X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Each member has their own unique place in a family. Ron Deal explores the myth of the "blended" family offering practical, realistic solutions for stepfamilies.
Publisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 076420159X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Each member has their own unique place in a family. Ron Deal explores the myth of the "blended" family offering practical, realistic solutions for stepfamilies.
Step Wars
Author: Grace Gabe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422355787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Are your adult children unwilling to accept your loyalties to your new spouse & stepchildren? Did your mother remarry later in life & sign away part of what you feel is your inheritance? Are you worried your step-siblings will inherit your father's house? Does your remarried parent's sexuality make you uncomfortable? Are you concerned about who will be your caretaker as you age? As more & more people are remarrying later in life, the resulting avalanche of feelings & situational crises threatens to ruin lives, break down relationships, & create complicated situations that seem to have no resolution. This is the first practical guide for every family facing this increasingly common dilemma -- a road map for happily surviving remarriage later in life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422355787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Are your adult children unwilling to accept your loyalties to your new spouse & stepchildren? Did your mother remarry later in life & sign away part of what you feel is your inheritance? Are you worried your step-siblings will inherit your father's house? Does your remarried parent's sexuality make you uncomfortable? Are you concerned about who will be your caretaker as you age? As more & more people are remarrying later in life, the resulting avalanche of feelings & situational crises threatens to ruin lives, break down relationships, & create complicated situations that seem to have no resolution. This is the first practical guide for every family facing this increasingly common dilemma -- a road map for happily surviving remarriage later in life.
Handbook on Counseling Youth
Author: John McDowell
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418554375
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Thoroughly researched, this easy-to-use handbook is designed to help parents, teachers, pastors and youth workers guide today's young people through the minefields of adolescence. From simple challenges to major crises, this book will equip adults to help youth cope with situations involving emotional issues, abuse, addictions, family issues, disorders, sexual issues and much more.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418554375
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Thoroughly researched, this easy-to-use handbook is designed to help parents, teachers, pastors and youth workers guide today's young people through the minefields of adolescence. From simple challenges to major crises, this book will equip adults to help youth cope with situations involving emotional issues, abuse, addictions, family issues, disorders, sexual issues and much more.
Making Peace in Your Stepfamily
Author: Harold H. Bloomfield
Publisher: Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780974718224
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This is a revidsed edition of the original publication of Making Peac in Your Step Family published in 1993. Dr. Bloomfield is a New York Times Best Selling Author with over 20 successful books in print.
Publisher: Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780974718224
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This is a revidsed edition of the original publication of Making Peac in Your Step Family published in 1993. Dr. Bloomfield is a New York Times Best Selling Author with over 20 successful books in print.