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Title: Stepmotherhood : How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked,Revised Edition by Cherie Burns ISBN: 0-609-80744-7 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very down-to-earth advice for step-mothers
Comment: This book was an excellent overview for a new step-mom. It has delightful and poignant life-experiences from real step-moms and even biological fathers. Mostly, it lets you know that you are not alone in your feelings for your step-child, even if those feelings are negative. Allows you to see yourself as part of a community, rather than alone in the world and in this particular situation. Helps you to focus on what is important and advises you to let go of the rest. Excellent chapters on focusing on your marriage, how to handle vacations with the step-children, dealing with your husband's ex-wife, and when to get help. All in all, a very fine book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Honest
Comment: Yes, this book may come across as negative, but it is realistic. Being a stepmom is tough and tougher still when you go into it with rose colored glasses and the belief that it will all be wonderful. It isn't. Cherie is honest in her assessment of the stepmom experience for most women who find themselves inheriting children who view them as the sole reason their parents aren't getting back together-- Even when their mother has been remarried for years and their parents were never happy. This book helped me focus on the positives of my life as a stepmom by working through the negative. While there were things I could not relate to (my skids were teens when I became their father's wife), the advice is clear, realistic and above all else honest.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I found this book, together with The Stepmom's Guide for Simplifying Your Life, to be very helpful in shifting my focus from overbroad wants that are incapable of being satisfied (my stepchild should be more responsible, e.g.) to concrete behaviors that should be fixed (my stepchild is responsible for picking up his or her dirty dishes and taking out the trash on Monday). The stories can be depressing and repetitive, but they can also be useful. The upshot is (at least today) that I'm happier, and everyone else in the house is too.
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Title: The Enlightened Stepmother : Revolutionizing the Role by Perdita K. Norwood, Teri Wingender ISBN: 038079604X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Stepmom's Guide to Simplifying Your LIfe by Karon Phillips Goodman ISBN: 096673937X Publisher: EquiLibrium Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Stepcoupling : Creating and Sustaining a Strong Marriage in Today's Blended Family by Jennifer Green, Susan Wisdom ISBN: 0609807412 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Courage to Be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself by Sue Patton Thoele ISBN: 1571781293 Publisher: Council Oak Distribution Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 7 Steps to Bonding with Your Stepchild by Suzen J. Ziegahn ISBN: 0312253656 Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 09 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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