Mom's House, Dad's House

Author: Isolina Ricci
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476747229
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Internationally renowned therapist, family expert and mediator Isolina Ricci, Ph.D. presents this definitive and newly updated guide to divorce and making shared custody work for parents and children. The ground-breaking classic, Mom’s House, Dad’s House, has become the standard for two generations of divorcing parents, and includes examples, self-tests, checklists, tools, and guidelines to help separated moms and dads with the legal, emotional, and financial issues they will encounter as they work to create happy and stable homes. This comprehensive guide looks anew at the needs of all family members with creative options and common-sense advice, including: * The map to a “decent divorce” and two happy homes * Helping children of divorce with age-specific advice * Negotiating Parental Agreements and custody arrangements * Breaking away from “negative intimacy” with a difficult ex-husband or ex-wife * Sidestepping destructive myths about divorce (and marriage) * Handling long-distance parenting and parenting alone With Mom’s House, Dad’s House, parents will learn how to help their children heal and find a sense of continuity, security, and stability throughout the divorce process and in any custody situation.

Mom's House, Dad's House for Kids

Author: Isolina Ricci
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416595724
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
From the author of the classic Mom’s House, Dad’s House, the essential guide for kids on how to stay strong and succeed in life when parents separate, divorce, or get married again. Isolina Ricci’s Mom’s House, Dad’s House has been the gold standard for inspiring and supporting divorcing and remarrying parents for more than twenty-five years. With her new book, Dr. Isa adapts her time-tested advice on maneuvering the emotional, logistical, and legal realities of separation, divorce, and stepfamilies to speak directly to children. Alongside practical ways to cope with big changes she offers older children and their families key resiliency tools that kids can use now and the rest of their lives. Kids and families are encouraged to believe in themselves, to take heart, and to plan for their lives ahead. Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids is packed with practical tips, frank answers, easy-to-use lists, “train your brain” ideas, reproducible worksheets, and things to try when words just won’t come out right. Kids will learn how to: · Deal with parents living apart, schedules, and dueling house rules · Settle comfortably in one home or two · Stay out of the “miserable middle” when parents fight · Manage stress, guilt, change, fear, and other feelings · Stay connected with parents, relatives, and the “right” friends · Appreciate the gifts (and deal with the gripes) of their new version of family · Feel better FAST! Kids can’t get their parents back together, but they can help themselves get stronger and go on to succeed in life. This book shows them how.

Two Homes

Author: Claire Masurel
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763673552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
"Parents looking for a book about separation or divorce will find few offerings as positive, matter-of-fact, or child-centered as this one. . . . Simple, yet profoundly satisfying." – Booklist (starred review) At Mommy’s house, Alex has a soft chair. At Daddy’s house, Alex has a rocking chair. In each home, Alex also has a special bedroom and lots of friends to play with. But whether Alex is with Mommy or with Daddy, one thing always stays the same - Alex is loved. The gently reassuring text focuses on what is gained rather than what is lost when parents divorce, while the sensitive illustrations, depicting two unique homes in all their small details, firmly establish Alex’s place in both of them. Two Homes will help children - and parents - embrace even the most difficult of changes with an open and optimistic heart.

In Our Mothers' House

Author: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 039925076X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
A heartwarming story of family, love, and celebrating what makes us special, from master storyteller Patricia Polacco, author of Thank You, Mr. Falker. Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their cozy home, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, they dance and play together. But one family doesn't accept them. Maybe because they think they are different: How can a family have two moms and no dad? But Marmee and Meema's house is full of love. And they teach their children that different doesn't mean wrong. No matter how many moms or dads they have, they are everything a family is meant to be. Celebrated author-illustrator Patricia Polacco inspires young readers with this message of a wonderful family living by its own rules, held together by a very special love.

Ginny Morris and Mom's House, Dad's House

Author: Mary Collins Gallagher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781591471578
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
Two years after her parents' divorce, almost-nine-year-old Ginny Morris is still frustrated by trying to keep track of clothing and homework as she moves from one house to another each Sunday, but is learning to tell her parents when things bother her. Simultaneous.

The Coparenting Toolkit

Author: Isolina Ricci
Publisher: Custody & Coparenting Solutions
ISBN: 9780982729502
Category : Children of divorced parents
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
USA BEST BOOKS AWARD and the INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS *Award Winning Finalist!* "The CoParenting Toolkit will likely become the resource manual for coparents, their attorneys, and mediators... ---Claire N. Barnes, MA, Executive Director, "Kids' Turn" "Best I have seen in this kind of book! ...more useful and practical information in fewer pages than any other author on this topic. It's actually fun to read." ---Phillip Reedy, MA, Family Court Mediator, former Education Coordinator, "California Statewide Office of Family Court Services" ESSENTIAL STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS Step-by-Step and Easy-to-Use "This is a real toolkit!" It's packed with fresh new strategies plus some advanced versions of time-tested solutions from its partner, the comprehensive classic, "Mom's House, Dad's House." You will discover how to- Build and keep a healthy co-parenting relationship Enhance your strengths Find success with emails, texts, meetings Find success with 3 new essential CoParenting Guidelines Speed healing by managing hurt and hard feelings PLUS, what kids need you to know, "words to try," extras for Parenting Plans, schedules, problem-solving, parenting tips, and much more... FOR PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS Reviews at www.TheCoParentingToolkit.com

Mom's House, Dad's House

Author: Isolina Ricci
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Children of divorced parents
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal

Author: Scott Benner
Publisher: Spry Publishing
ISBN: 1938170164
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
2013 Mom's Choice Awards® Winner MEN: Ever wonder about stay-at-home dads? What in the name of testosterone do they DO all day with those kids? I mean, are they really men at all, or are they some strange, invasive alien species, sent to Earth to defy and destroy all gender stereotypes?. WOMEN: Ever dream about stay-at-home dads? Do they really wash clothes, pick up after themselves, take great care of your kids, and have dinner waiting for you when you get home? There must be horrible, secret downside that they don’t warn you about, right?. Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal provides a rare glimpse into the natural habitat of this most mysterious and splendid of creatures, the North American Stay-at-Home Father (Paternus domesticus). Learn what motivates a man to pursue this noble occupation. Discover the countless joys and periodic sorrows that come with raising a family.. Witness the life and family of Scott Benner, author, activist, humorist, and 12-year stay-at-home dad. When Scott’s daughter, Arden, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of two, his world took a sharp turn, but his positive outlook on life did not waver.. Scott’s colloquial wisdom will warm your heart while it challenges your ideas about parenting and gender roles in today’s household. Written from a truly unique point of view in a style both poignant and playful, Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal is an honest portrait of the modern family.

Crap at My Parents' House

Author: Joel Dovev
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613121849
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
An illustrated celebration of the trinkets and tchotchkes that accumulate over a lifetime—and turn ordinary family homes into weird museums . . . Deer-hoof bottle openers. Grizzly bear toilet paper holders. A copy of Sports Illustrated from 1983 with Hulk Hogan on the cover. You never know what you might find lurking at your parents’ house. Standup comic and blogger Joel Dovev has made it his personal quest to compile a catalog of the useless, tacky, and utterly bizarre items that moms and dads not only acquire in the first place, but refuse to throw out, all for reasons unbeknownst to their kids. If you’ve ever helped with cleaning and organizing efforts—or just opened up a junk drawer or a box in the basement during a visit home—you’re sure to recognize the feeling of stumbling across treasures such as these and asking yourself, “Why?” Packed with photos and humorous observations, Crap at My Parents’ House is a very special journey sure to provoke a mixture of tender nostalgia . . . and head-shaking bafflement.

Stay-at-home Dads

Author: Libby Gill
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
A media executive and working mother provides a step-by-step blueprint for the transition to a stay-at-home-dad family, and includes tips for creating a business plan, overcoming gender stereotypes, maintaining a healthy work-family balance, and more.