According to the Stepfamily Association of America, 60 percent of all families are breaking up, and custody and visitation issues loom large in the lives of many parents. Isolina Ricci's Mom's House, Dad's House guides separated, divorced, and remarried parents through the hassles and confusions of setting up a strong, working relationship with the ex-spouse in order to make two loving homes for the kids.
This expanded and revised edition (the book was originally published in 1980) includes emotional and legal tools, as well as many reference materials and resources. As one parent said of the first edition, "This book is my friend."
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Your marriage may have ended, but your fatherhood has not. How can you stay an involved, caring dad in the aftermath of divorce when all kinds of obstacles appear, making you insecure and uncertain of your parenting skills?
With advice and insight from psychologist and family therapist Kenneth N. Condrell, and from some of the ever-growing number of other divorced dads, this practical, insightful handbook will help you:avoid the ten most common divorced dad pitfallsadjust to family life after the custody agreementhandle school, homework, and extracurricular activitiesstrategize celebrations and holidaysdeal with a child who rejects youmove on to dating and other relationshipsLet divorce be an opportunity for tremendous growth-and great parenting.
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Would you like to get on with the teenage boy in your stepfamily? by Jo Ball
I've read a great book, Raising Boys. We have a teenage boy and being an idealist I picked up the book after feeling like something wasn't quite with our relationship. I felt he'd become arrogant, difficult to talk with and generally less enjoyable to be around. I assumed it was because I was his stepmum and he had for some unknown reason lost respect for me. After a while I had begun to find it hard to take. I found myself complaining to my partner about him. What I hadn't realised is that my complaining had become daily and at times hourly!
I had a rude awakening to this one day when my usually very supportive partner said sharply to me ' Don't tell me. Sort it out with him'. I was really taken aback and quite hurt at first, feeling aggrieved, unheard and unsupported.
