Your Roadmap from Dating to a Healthy
"Blended Family"
Practical guidance for dating couples, engaged partners, and new stepparents who want to build a thriving “blended family”.
Navigating Co-Parenting and New Relationships
Dating with Kids Already on Board
Post-Divorce Dating Done Right
When and How to Introduce the Kids
From Dating to a Thriving Blended Family
★★★★★ 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Trusted by parents, stepparents, therapists, and family professionals.
Available in Multiple Formats
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What This Book Is For?
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This book is for anyone who wants to build stronger relationships, reduce stress, and create a happier, more connected “blended family”.
Perfect For
✔ Single parents dating again
✔ New stepparents
✔ Blended families
✔ Family therapists
✔ Counselors
✔ Relationship coaches
What You'll Learn Inside
When to Involve Children
Step-by-step guidance on how and when to introduce children and build strong bonds.
Communication Tools
Powerful tools for building strong relationships and resolving conflict.
Co-Parent Relationships
Keys to building a constructive relationship with your child's other parent (ex-spouse).
Support Children at Every Age
Practical ideas for reassuring and helping children from infancy through adulthood.
Stronger Partnerships
Balance expectations and deepen your connection as a couple.
Create a Thriving Stepfamily
Step-wise guidance for moving forward and building a happy, blended family.
Meet the Authors
Karen S. Bonnell, MS
The Co-Parenting Handbook
Co-parenting coach, mediator, and author with decades of experience helping parents navigate divorce, co-parenting, and creating successful stepfamilies.
Patricia L. Papernow, EdD
Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships
Therapist, educator, and nationally recognized expert in stepfamily relationships with over four decades of clinical experience and research.
Together, they've helped thousands of families build stronger, healthier stepfamily relationships.
What Readers Are Saying
★★★★★
Fantastic and important book!
Deeply appreciated this well written and extremely helpful book! I am remarried a few years and we are “blending” our children/families/co-parents. I feel really fortunate with how our new family is blossoming, yet there are experiences sometimes that surprise me or I didn’t have words for until reading this book (like the "outsider/insider position"!). This is an illuminating, comforting and positive ("keep on keeping on") step-family must-read.
~Desiree
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A Necessary Read for Newly Divorced Parents
"The Stepfamily Handbook" is a very helpful book for parents who have divorced and are moving towards rebuilding their family. The authors offer concrete suggestions on how to introduce new special people into the lives of their children in a sensitive and developmentally appropriate manner. This is a must-read for separated and divorced parents. I highly recommend it!
~Shelley Chambers
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Must read for Step Parents and Divorcing/Divorced Parents thinking of Dating
The Stepfamily Handbook is invaluable for any Divorcing/Divorced Parent, anyone getting involved with a family from divorce, and any member of Step Families. My life would have been much easier if this had been available to me when I raised step children for 25 years. I am a divorce lawyer, having practiced since 1982. I will be recommending this book to all of my clients with children. I rely on all of Karen's other books as well!
~Susan Shulenberger
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I'm a stepmom
Sometimes as a stepmom it's hard to know the right thing to say or do.... or not. Karen's examples and organized presentation make it easy to go to the right page for what is going on right now. My step daughter is now an adult. There is great information about having a healthy on-going relationship but also planning for harmony as we mature as a family.
~Denise DeCoster