StepParenting Essentials: A Guide to Love, Blend and Survive

by Molly Barrow

Stepparenting Essentials provides twenty-five essential rules and preventive advice to help the stepparent blend and improve a new family's future. The bioparent must be smart about his or her choice in a partner and be certain that interaction between original and new family members will enhance, not damage, the self-esteem of a stepchild. Co-parenting requires insight and education.

Find answers to pitfalls that will smooth out family conduct during the first years of blending children with new stepparents. Essential rules depict stepparenting moments accompanied by psychological explanations and illustrations. You may know the moments--if you do not laught, then you migh cry.

210 pages, Paperback

Published June 16, 2019

About the author

Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of "StepParenting Essentials," "Matchlines for Singles," and the children's self-esteem building adventure trilogy "Malia and Teacup: Awesome African Adventure", "Malia and Teacup: Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon," and "Malia and Teacup: Checkmate Castle," and for early readers "Malia and Teacup: Out on a Limb." A lecturer on relationship and psychological topics, Dr. Barrow is a member of the American Psychological Association, Screen Actors Guild, and is a licensed mental health counselor in private practice. Dr. Molly has appeared as an expert in the film, My Suicide, documentaries Ready to Explode and KTLA Impact, NBC news, PBS In Focus, WBZT talk radio, and quoted in Parents, O Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, New York Times, CNN, The Nest, MSN.com, Yahoo, Match.com, Women's Health, and Women's World, was the host of the Dr. Molly Barrow Show on Progressive Radio Network for three years and is the founder and executive director of non-profit IMAGINE Children's Health Center.