Raising Children in Blended Families: Helpful Insights, Expert Opinions, and True Stories

by Maxine Marsolini

Book Overview

A realistic and forthright resource, this practical guide for parents of blended families helps adults understand their children's feelings and cope with arising difficulties. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082543355X
• ISBN13: 9780825433559
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Kregel Publications
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Help for Stepfamilies and Blended Families

Here's the parenting help you need, if you're blending a family or trying to unite a stepfamily. Author Maxine Marsolini updates her earlier work here; this is an expanded and revised edition of her earlier study. Excellent parenting tips as you face the inevitable struggles. One of the better books about parenting school-age children as you blend one set of kids with another. Barbara Sheldon, M.S.W. I also highly recommend: Moving Forward After Divorce: Practical Steps to * Healing Your Hurts * Finding Fresh Perspective * Managing Your New Life

An excellent resource that blends equal measures of piety, practicality, testimony and psychology.

Written by American Association of Christian Counselors member Maxine Marsolini, Raising Children in Blended Families: Helpful Insights, Expert Opinions, and True Stories is a guide especially for Christian parents facing the unique challenges of a blended family and being a stepparent. Presenting testimony both from children affected by divorce or remarriage, and from experts on how best to help children deal with grief or anger, and how to make the adjustments to a new way of living. Raising Children in Blended Families also upholds the role of faith in God and Jesus Christ as a key to finding faith, stability, and nourishment of the soul. An excellent resource that blends equal measures of piety, practicality, testimony and psychology.