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Relate Guide To Step Families
According to statistics, one in three people in the UK today is likely to be involved in a step-family at some point in their life. In Step-Families, Suzie Hayman looks at the problems that may arise as a result of this life-change and offers strategies for coping with them.
It is common for a 'new' parent to suffer from feelings of isolation, guilt and anxiety while the established parent is concerned with balancing his or her needs with those of their partner, their children and possibly step-children. How do you also manage a sexual relationship if you are a single parent? Or accept the on-going role of the partner's 'ex' and the involvement of grandparents?
Suzie Hayman uses personal stories to suggest ways in which you can come to terms with feelings, resolve problems and anticipate trouble before it starts. She takes a candid look at family politics - from an adult's point of view as well as a child's - and also addresses the relationship issues which arise if you and your partner decide to have children of your own.
It is common for a 'new' parent to suffer from feelings of isolation, guilt and anxiety while the established parent is concerned with balancing his or her needs with those of their partner, their children and possibly step-children. How do you also manage a sexual relationship if you are a single parent? Or accept the on-going role of the partner's 'ex' and the involvement of grandparents?
Suzie Hayman uses personal stories to suggest ways in which you can come to terms with feelings, resolve problems and anticipate trouble before it starts. She takes a candid look at family politics - from an adult's point of view as well as a child's - and also addresses the relationship issues which arise if you and your partner decide to have children of your own.
- GenresParenting
256 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2001
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About the author
Suzie Hayman
57 books13 followersSuzie Hayman is a leading UK expert in family issues. A relationship counsellor, agony aunt, parenting practitioner, writer and broadcaster she uses her weekly column in one of the most popular women’s magazines to help readers makes sense of emotional issues. Using down-to-earth language she strives to help everyone understand complex feelings and behaviour and to take control of their own lives.
Suzie Hayman trained as a counsellor with Relate and volunteered with them for 5 years, is an accredited TripleP (Positive Parenting Programme) parenting educator, a broadcaster and author of thirty books. She writes an advice column for Woman magazine. She has written weekly columns in The Times and the Saturday Guardian, has been the agony aunt for Woman’s Own magazine and BBC Health Online and was the counsellor seen guiding five families through their family dilemmas on the major BBC1 series, “Stepfamilies”. She was one of the founding agony aunts in Kids In The Middle, an alliance of agony aunts and charities, lobbying for increased support for children caught up in family breakdown. She has worked for the Family Planning Association, Brook and Family Lives.
She is a trustee and spokesperson for Family Lives, the major UK parenting charity, and contributes articles and appears in a variety of podcasts on their website. She is a trustee of The Who Cares Trust, for “looked after” children and contributes to “Who Cares?”, and “Who Cares Junior”, magazines for kids in care produced by The Trust. She is patron of Unique Kidz and Co, which provides specialist services for disabled children and their families. She makes frequent appearances on national and local television and radio on programmes such as BBC Breakfast, You and Yours, PM and Women’s Hour and is a regular on BBC 5Live, BBC Scotland and BBC Wales as well as many local BBC and commercial stations. She has also been an occasional presenter on her local BBC radio station, BBC Radio Cumbria. She is a freelance journalist and has written features, mainly on parenting, relationship, health, sex and counselling matters, for a wide range of national magazines and newspapers – most recently the Times, Daily Mail, Guardian and Independent. She has conceived and written leaflets and website material for Family Lives, Drinkaware, the NSPCC, One Parent Families, the Family Planning Association and Brook including a Young Mum’s Guide for OPF, “Hands Off” for the NSPCC and “Say Yes, Say No, Say Maybe” for Brook. She is regularly asked to give expert comment in national and local media and to speak at conferences and to give seminars on a wide range of issues to do with relationships and parenting.
She has had 30 books published, helping parents, families and individuals to manage issues such as stepfamilies, being a single parent, communicating with teenagers, having a happy family life, managing family breakdown and assertiveness. She has also written on sexual fantasy and tantric sex.
She lives in a 300 year old farmhouse with Vic, her husband, and 2 cats. She has one stepson and one granddaughter, loves fine wine, good food, fell walking ..... and Vic!
Suzie Hayman trained as a counsellor with Relate and volunteered with them for 5 years, is an accredited TripleP (Positive Parenting Programme) parenting educator, a broadcaster and author of thirty books. She writes an advice column for Woman magazine. She has written weekly columns in The Times and the Saturday Guardian, has been the agony aunt for Woman’s Own magazine and BBC Health Online and was the counsellor seen guiding five families through their family dilemmas on the major BBC1 series, “Stepfamilies”. She was one of the founding agony aunts in Kids In The Middle, an alliance of agony aunts and charities, lobbying for increased support for children caught up in family breakdown. She has worked for the Family Planning Association, Brook and Family Lives.
She is a trustee and spokesperson for Family Lives, the major UK parenting charity, and contributes articles and appears in a variety of podcasts on their website. She is a trustee of The Who Cares Trust, for “looked after” children and contributes to “Who Cares?”, and “Who Cares Junior”, magazines for kids in care produced by The Trust. She is patron of Unique Kidz and Co, which provides specialist services for disabled children and their families. She makes frequent appearances on national and local television and radio on programmes such as BBC Breakfast, You and Yours, PM and Women’s Hour and is a regular on BBC 5Live, BBC Scotland and BBC Wales as well as many local BBC and commercial stations. She has also been an occasional presenter on her local BBC radio station, BBC Radio Cumbria. She is a freelance journalist and has written features, mainly on parenting, relationship, health, sex and counselling matters, for a wide range of national magazines and newspapers – most recently the Times, Daily Mail, Guardian and Independent. She has conceived and written leaflets and website material for Family Lives, Drinkaware, the NSPCC, One Parent Families, the Family Planning Association and Brook including a Young Mum’s Guide for OPF, “Hands Off” for the NSPCC and “Say Yes, Say No, Say Maybe” for Brook. She is regularly asked to give expert comment in national and local media and to speak at conferences and to give seminars on a wide range of issues to do with relationships and parenting.
She has had 30 books published, helping parents, families and individuals to manage issues such as stepfamilies, being a single parent, communicating with teenagers, having a happy family life, managing family breakdown and assertiveness. She has also written on sexual fantasy and tantric sex.
She lives in a 300 year old farmhouse with Vic, her husband, and 2 cats. She has one stepson and one granddaughter, loves fine wine, good food, fell walking ..... and Vic!
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