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Divorce can feel like the end of the world, but it doesn't have to be the end of a positive family dynamic. In Raise Children After Divorce, you'll find a heartfelt, honest, and practical guide to help you navigate the challenging journey of raising children across two households. This book is the roadmap every parent needs during and after divorce, offering emotional support and tangible strategies for creating a nurturing environment for their children while maintaining their well-being.

In this book for couples forming blended family units, practising psychotherapist and coach Katherine Walker explores all the issues that couples face when combining their families. From how to maintain the couple's own loving relationship, to handling teenage tantrums, this is an easy-to-follow guide that answers every key question, and offers practical solutions.

The story has been crafted to include specific sleep-time suggestions; the narration and pace of the story is designed to slow your child's rhythm down and bring them to gentle, restful sleep. The audiobook run time is around 30 minutes, and it can be played from any device and will become a part of your child's bedtime routine.

These days it can often feel like a 'normal' nuclear family is something of a rarity; that most families are varied, broken up or diverse. Children find themselves with step-parents, half-siblings, or living in single-parent households - even having same-sex parents. It's a time when the family unit is a much more flexible arrangement, rather than the biological 'Mom, Dad and their biological children' which was the old configuration of the past. The most common structure away from the traditional is that of two families coming together, creating step-parents and step or half-siblings and ...

Warning ⚠ - Pick your One Night Stands Wisely... The man who sets your body on fire could be your BFF's dad! When my best friend asks for a favor, I'm pretty sure she didn't expect me to hook up with her dad. When I agreed to attend an event in her place, I didn’t expect to meet and have a one-night stand with a gorgeous, tattooed, silver fox older man. I’ve NEVER been into older men, but there is something about him that stirs emotions in me that I’ve never experienced before. I thought walking away from him without sharing my real name was the worst mistake I ever made. Little did...

I slept with my brother's best friend. Now he's back as my new boss. Jace was my first for everything. First crush. First boyfriend. First man I've ever been with. Then suddenly he was gone and it broke me. Now he's back, as head of his father's company. I tried to avoid him, but the feelings from the past are hard to ignore. We rekindle a flame I thought was long extinguished and now the fire is more intense than ever. But I have a secret that could ruin everything we've built. How could I tell him that he once was going to be a father without losing him forever?

What to Expect When You Weren’t Expecting chronicles Jyl Barlow’s bumpy road to success as a (step)mother. Shared are the struggles of being inserted into an existing family still sitting within the emotional woodchipper of divorce. Jyl shares real-world lessons, not the mumbo-jumbo one can receive for the low price of a co-pay.

Can't get your child to sleep? Then help is here with Bedtime Bear 3 - the third story in the series.

Motherhood Smotherhood takes parents through the trenches of new parenting, warning listeners of the pleasures and perils of mommy blogs, new parent groups, self-described "lactivists", sleep fascists, incessant trend pieces on working versus non-working mothers, and the place where free time and self-esteem goes to die: Pinterest (back away from the hand-made flower headbands for baby!).

Marie Aaron never meant to fall for a guy with two kids. And she certainly never meant to fall for a guy with two kids and a cruel, manipulative ex-wife—who sets out to make Marie’s life a living hell, using the kids as pawns.

This audiobook is dedicated to the "cool" aunts of the world. The aunts who step up in the world.

Fourteen years ago, Mike Milligan learned he would become a grandfather for the first time. He was surprised to find that there was little or no information available on what it means to be a grandfather, how to make the most of the experience, and how to be the best grandfather possible. Sure, there were shelves of books dedicated to grandmothers - all with cuddly covers depicting spring bouquets or gentle little lambs. But there was not a single book that spoke to him, a 64-year-old grandfather-to-be. It struck him that there were countless other grandfathers out there experiencing this same feeling of neglect.

Hundreds of thousands of fans flock to the PTWM blog and Facebook page purely because Rachaele is genuine and incredibly honest and has created a supportive online community where parents (and non-parents) can go for respite. Her message is clear: not everyone is a perfect mum with a nice house, a steady marriage and 2.5 children. We lead messy, complicated lives. For Rachaele, blogging is about shining a light on very real ups and downs (from having fun with your beautiful kids and watching them grow to meltdowns, domestic violence, bullying and more).

The title says it all: what we have and where we are. This travel memoir, the sequel to Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure, follows our French exploits as we endeavor to rebuild our lives in another new country, after spending four and half years in Australia. Our goal, or hope for the immediate future, is to focus positively on the present so that we can start a new, optimistic future back in Europe. Our main aim is to be nearer to the children, leaving the dark clouds of the challenges we faced in Australia as a distant memory. Journey with us as we arrive in rural South West France; enjoy my reflections, thoughts, and observations about my family, our new surroundings, and our lifestyle. Follow the journey of my writing career and how we start our renovation project while managing our convoluted family life. Once again, we will laugh, cry, and enjoy life to the fullest with a generous helping of positive spin thrown in for good measure.

Bossy Enemy's Secret I had a one-night stand with a gorgeous, bullheaded woman who also is my sworn enemy. Stacey Winters and her father own the property where my mom and girlfriend were murdered. Seeing the old neighborhood revitalized and free from crime consumes my life's purpose. She has other plans for the property. And she doesn't know my intention. That's why she hates me. Her stubbornness infuriates me, yet that throaty laugh makes my pulse race uncontrollably. Judging by how I pin her against the elevator wall, that’s no hidden secret. Yet my passion gets in the way. Then I find ...

It’s so important for parents to stay aware of their mental health and work to improve it if necessary. One of the most impactful things a new parent can do in this process is to implement regular positive affirmations. Everyone can benefit from having a positive affirmation routine, no matter their mental health situation. Having positive and strong mental health is so important as a parent, since your mental state impacts your family and everyone around you. This one-hour audiobook will be an essential piece of helping you accomplish this.

This book is meant to be the ultimate guide to step-parenting, from understanding your role, building relationships with your stepchildren, navigating through legal complexities, to finding support networks. This is the guide, then, for you. Professional insights meshed with firsthand experiences give you a worldview on step-parenting. It will lead you through everyday strategies to deal with your stepchildren right down to how best to cope with potentially challenging issues like co-parenting with the biological parent.

A response to all those grandmother books with flowers and puppies on the cover, Grandma Rules is a book for the hip, baby boomer grandma who realizes that after all the work she put into her own kids, she can take a break and have fun with her grandkids. A perfect gift for the greatest grandmothers you know, this book is laugh-out-loud funny while offering useful insights and tips on how to embrace the world’s greatest job.

Life is never easy, but there are times when it feels like everything is against you. Tyra Hodge grew up feeling the world's weight pressing down on her. A nagging feeling awakened, whispering how she would never amount to anything the older she got. Daunted by the increasing demands of education and her private struggles, Tyra turned away.

Auch wenn die Scheidung der Eltern für Kinder einen Verlust bedeutet: Ein neuer Partner von Vater oder Mutter kann ein wunderbarer Bonus sein. Der bekannte Familientherapeut Jesper Juul hat für das unschöne Wort "Stiefeltern" ein neues Wort geprägt: Bonuseltern. "Was wir über Patchwork wissen? Es ist nicht einfach. Aber es ist ja in keiner Familie einfach." Meine Kinder, deine Kinder, unsere Kinder: Ein kluges, Mut machendes Unterstützungshörbuch für moderne Familien.