A practical guide to an increasingly common issue: how do I parent someone else's child? Many of the difficulties stepfamilies face are common to all families. But the extra load where relationships are broken and remade with children involved are many and complex. Using dynamic techniques - tips, games, discussion points, dialogue, quizzes, the author leads the reader through the minefield towards the ultimate goal. Not perfection, because no family, parent or child can be perfect; but to being good enough. The book covers topics such as: what is a stepfamily?; particular challenges - other members, schools, discipline, inheritance; striving to be good enough, rather than perfect; how to build a new family; other siblings; and sexuality.
- ISBN10 0340756861
- ISBN13 9780340756867
- Publish Date 5 July 2001
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English