Margaret Broersma combines her experiences with practical biblical insights to provide devotional help for the parents of blended families.

Each member has their own unique place in a family. Ron Deal explores the myth of the "blended" family offering practical, realistic solutions for stepfamilies.

One out of three Americans is a part of a stepfamily. With proven reliability and personal experience, Margaret Broersma gives stepparents sound, practical, biblically accurate advice for the issues they face.

Daily Inspiration and Wisdom for Blended Families Got a minute? Then you have time for a daily dose of encouragement and wisdom for your stepfamily journey. These 365 short and sweet thoughts will keep your family blending and bonding throughout the year. Topics include parenting and stepparenting, strengthening your marriage, grief in the stepfamily, bonding with children, co-parenting with exes, practical wisdom for bringing family members together, and inspirational stories to lift your spirits and keep you stepping in the right direction. This book also addresses special days like Mother's Day and holidays. Each daily dose of encouragement includes a prayer for your home. Sharing these readings with your spouse and, when appropriate, kids will spark valuable conversations that strengthen family understanding and closeness.

In Blended, Not Shaken, Ginny Warren gently unfolds the sometimes complicated layers of living as a blended family in todays world. With honesty and intimate authenticity, Warren shares both her own struggles as well as her faith that allowed her to deal with the personal difficulties in her own story of step-parenting. This book is rich in biblical counsel and truth and allows the reader to embark on a journey toward spiritual and personal health through reflection questions at the end of each chapter. Warrens style is less about being preachy and more about coming alongside others to help them find victory in their family structureno matter what the situation! Her wisdom and insight penetrate each page and will leave you feeling refreshed, hopeful, and strengthened. If you are currently parenting in a blended home or know someone who is, this is a must read book! Dr. Michelle Anthony Author of Spiritual Parenting and Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family Ginny Warren is a mother who walks the talk. For fifteen years, Ive watched her raise her children and stepdaughter with intentionality and unconditional love. She and Steve declared their home and family as sacred, and worth whatever it would take to keep them united and raised in Gods ways. Ginnys grace for the hard journey of stepparenting comes out in every page of this amazing book. Glynnis Whitwer, author of Taming the To-Do List: How to Choose Your Best Work Every Day and Executive Director of Communications for Proverbs 31 Ministries.

In Stepparenting the Grieving Child, Diane Ingram Fromme shares the assumptions and presumptions, steps and missteps that occurred within her own stepfamily. Diane faced the key challenges any new stepparent to grieving children experiences, including helplessness to know how and when to offer comfort, awkwardness to identify the times and ways to memorialize the lost parent, and outsider blues--not only feeling uncomfortable in her own home but also in her own skin. With personal examples, insights from other stepfamilies, and knowledge gained through experience and research, Diane provides information relevant to anyone who supports grieving children. Diane's straightforward approach will help you: Gain a more relaxed mindset toward stepparenting through grief Learn meaningful ways to include and memorialize the lost parent Help the natural parent claim his or her role in the grieving family In Stepparenting the Grieving Child you'll find hope, strength, and inspiration for the journey ahead, no matter where you are now.

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships is designed to be useful both to stepfamily members themselves and to a wide variety of practitioners, as well as to educators, judges, mediators, lawyers and medical personnel.