Step Parenting

Have you ever wondered how to best approach your new role as a stepparent? Have you found it challenging to get along with your stepchildren? You are certainly not alone, and this book is here to help you. Starting a new family in which you have to integrate your life with that of your stepchildren can pose unique challenges that are not present in nuclear or biological families.

In For You When I Am Gone, Rabbi Steve Leder taught us how to write an ethical will, a letter to our loved ones that helps them understand what we have learned about how to live a meaningful life. Now, in this beautiful journal, Rabbi Leder provides prompts, exercises, and inspirational quotes to help us write our own ethical wills. As a helpful companion to the previous book or a complete stand-alone, this journal will show each of us how to create a lasting, meaningful legacy while enjoying the process of examining our lives.

Whether you want to improve communication or help your struggling teen make better choices, How to Get Your Son Back: 7 Steps to Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship will show you how to stop the fighting and reestablish communication, mutual respect, and trust; motivate and show your teen how to change; help your teen heal and continually grow; and much more. While this audiobook includes details relevant to raising a son, the overall principles also apply to troubled daughters.

Have you ever had a friend in your life that caused you more misery than happiness? Maybe this friend is constantly asking to borrow your things. They tell you that it’ll just be one time, except that it’s not. It’s several times. And then your friend ends up needing more than just your time. It turns into your finances, your personal objects, and your obligations outside of the time that you spend with them. But you assure yourself that things will change.

If you're looking for a couples therapy workbook for healing, The 5 Step Action Plan to a Happy & Healthy Marriage is an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide with user-friendly couples therapy workbook exercises at the end of each chapter.

Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores stepparenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better able to blend two families if you take care of the marriage first.

You don't want to spend months worrying if you are doing things "right", while your child struggles to understand what you're trying to teach. Stephany Hicks knows the ins and outs of toilet training, and tried every approach under the sun when she was raising her own three children. Now, she's compiled all you need to know in order to take your child out of diapers and into the next stage of their development as easily and quickly as possible.

If you have ever wished your words could carry more weight, look no further. Here, we deconstruct charisma as we take you on a fascinating journey through the processes of psychology and social dynamics, illuminating misunderstood elements of human interaction like never before. Tear the veil aside and look at how masters of manipulation do it. Knowing how these actions are done will give you the tools you need to hold firm and even do some swaying of your own if you are tired of being led around, jerked around, or manipulated.

With Grief Healing Techniques, you will be able examine your emotions and learn basic strategies for self-care to help you through this difficult time. Grief Healing Techniques helps you rebuild your daily routine, with tips for planning your meals and activities, finding a support network, and healing through journaling and meditation. Grief Healing Techniques gives you practical support for working through grief.

What does it mean to be a good parent? Are you a good parent when your child is compliant, but a bad parent when they're not? What if they're perfect at age three and challenging at 13? And what if your child has additional needs? This is an audiobook about parenting styles and what it takes to be a great parent. We know about tiger parents, helicopter parents, free-range parents, but have you heard of Tesla parents, leaf-blower parents and iPhone 6 parents? We can parent in so many ways, but is there a style that actually works?

People all over the world are lying awake at night wired from exhaustion and uncertainty, fearful of the looming to-do list that awaits them in the morning and wondering how the hell they are going to keep this up before they lose the plot altogether. Life doesn't have to be this way. This book is a no-nonsense, practical guide to thriving in a fast-paced modern world, for the burnt out, bone tired and brain frazzled.

This book, The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Novel for Fiction Writers and Novelist is a one-of-a-kind book. It is different from anything you would have listened to because it reverses the usual order of things. It does not teach you the same old tips and tricks. Instead the book divides the process of novel writing into six easy steps. Each step becomes a chapter that gives you complete insight and knowledge. It grabs you by the hand and takes you forward.

Do You Want to Know How to REALLY GET YOUR MAN TO MARRY YOU? It’s the situation every woman dreads: You know this is the guy you want to spend the rest of your life with, so why isn’t he getting down on one knee? You’re happy and strong, you’ve been together a while, and you’re practically living in each other’s pockets. I have GOOD NEWS: There is a better way to make him marry you than to nag him into a commitment. I have a foolproof method to get a ring on your finger, and it works in 99 out of every 100 cases.

Comment transformer votre état d'esprit et atteindre vos objectifs professionnels sans vous sentir dépassé, même si vous débutez.

Do you want to love the right way? Yes, there is a right way to love, and there is a painful way to love. Love should not hurt. Love should not be difficult. Have you ever felt like you had to push through a relationship with the hopes of making it awesome? We all have. But what if you could be pulled by an amazing relationship?

Recovery from growing up with dysfunctional adults as parents. One concept is, the things you used to survive as a kid are ruining your life as an adult. Overcome poor self image, find your authentic self, heal your soul, and become the person you want to be.

I have attended more than 500 weddings over 22 years. I have been privy to couples' most intimate moments as they share their hopes for their relationship and fears that arise before the ceremony, and as they work through the inevitable issues that come up afterward. No, I am not a wedding crasher, I just happen to be married to a rabbi. Rethink Love is for anyone who is in love, wants love, or wishes to rekindle love.

Discover the "language of love" of your partner. These languages include love that expresses itself through words, love that expresses itself through the time they spend together, love that shows through gifts, love that expresses itself through physical contact, and love that manifests itself through acts of service. One way to know what your main love languages are is to think about the way you show your love to others.

Tragedy happens to everyone. Whether it's the loss of a loved one, a painful divorce, or a serious injury, we must all face personal catastrophe—unavoidable moments that divides our lives into "before" and "after." These events take a heavy toll on everyone, but there are those who have muscled their way through tough times and emerged stronger and wiser. Author Jerry White is one such example.

Hurry is the new normal. When someone asks us how we’re doing, we tell them that we’re "good...but busy." We want to achieve our dreams and live a significant life, so we cram our calendars with nonstop activities. Instead of feeling fulfilled, we’re distracted, exhausted, and overwhelmed. We have too much to do and not enough time. But it doesn’t have to be this way! Garland Vance knows how you feel. In Gettin’ (un)Busy, he shares how he nearly burned out while leading a nonprofit, having a family, and working on his doctorate in leadership and spiritual formation.