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The Everything Guide to Stepparenting: Practical, reassuring advice for creating healthy, long-lasting relationships

Name: The Everything Guide to Stepparenting: Practical, reassuring advice for creating healthy, long-lasting relationships
Author: Erin Munroe
ISBN: 9781605507163

by Erin Munroe

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Overview

Starting a relationship with a new person is always an adventure, and that adventure comes with extra thrills when your significant other is also a parent. Not only do you have to incorporate one new person into your life; you have to welcome that person's children too. This guide will teach new and future stepparents how to:

Meet and build relationships with potential stepchildren
Handle situations involving the other biological parent
Involve stepchildren in the wedding
Be an involved stepparent without overstepping boundaries
Make tough decisions about money, education, and more

This comprehensive resource covers dozens of different situations-from battling the wicked stepparent stereotype to mediating interactions between stepsiblings. Written by a licensed mental health counselor and experienced stepparent, this book will help future stepparents start off their new lives on the right foot.

About the Author, Erin Munroe

Erin Munroe (Braintree, MA) is a licensed mental health counselor, school adjustment counselor, school guidance counselor, and proud stepmother of her nineteen-year-old stepson. Ms. Munroe completed her MA in behavioral medicine and mental health counseling from Boston University School of Medicine and then began a job providing counseling to students in the Boston Public Schools. Ms. Munroe currently works for the Boston Public Schools and holds a part-time position at a confidential teen-clinic, where she provides counseling to at-risk adolescents.

Irene S. Levine, PhD (Chappaqua, NY), is a trained psychologist and freelance writer who has held a faculty appointment as a professor at the New York University School of Medicine since 1994. She also works part-time as a research scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, NY. Ms. Levine is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Association for Health Care Journalists, the American Medical Writers Association, the Authors Guild, the National Association of Science Writers, and the American Psychological Association. She is also a stepparent.