Help Yourself: Your Kids, My Kids

How to Cope When There Are Children from a Previous Relationship

Are you in a family or one half of a partnership where some or all of the kids are "mine, yours but not ours"? If so, you're in a stepfamily, even though you may not give yourself that label. Most of the difficulties you might experience will be common to all families, but the extra load where relationships are broken and remade are there and children involved are many and complex. Using dynamic techniques including games, discussion points, dialogue and quizzes, Suzie Hayman leads readers through the minefield and out the other side towards the ultimate goal: not perfection but to being "Good Enough".