Making the Best of Second Best: A Guide to Positive Stepparenting

I would like to thank Ms. Fox for such a wonderful book! I just became a stepmom of two and have no kids on my own. I have no experience whatsoever on parenting. Even though the book is more focus on children from both sides I found it very helpful! It gave me a lot of knowledge on what the kids are thinking and their behavior. After reading "Making the Best of Second Best", my life has been very easy with my husband and stepkids. I recomend this book 100%. Once again, thank you Ms. Fox!

Kathleen Fox offers a day-to-day practical guide to positive stepparenting in a blended family.... Other titles for this book could very well have been "How to Get Along In Your Blended Family Without Being a Doormat", or "How to Change Your Negative Attitude into A Positive One", or "How to Create A Healthy Stepfamily for the Children". This is a book that can help all us enormously, and I would especially recommend it as a must read to every SWC member who has very recently or is about to enter into a blended family. The author does an excellent job of letting you know what you are getting into and how to react to a highly, more complicated and difficult situation than getting married for the first time where no children are involved. A blended family is far more complicated than the original family. You entered into a marriage where the baggage was not dropped down the street on your wedding day. Her life was far from perfect, and she admits that she too went through a lot of pain, anger, resentment and temper tantrums. There were many days when she, like me, wanted to run away from it all. I like Ms. Fox because she is one of us, someone I could very much relate to. She also very wisely tells you the importance of taking care of yourself. She is also telling us the rewards of hanging in there.

Kathleen Fox emphasizes ways to learn and grow as a stepfamily. Her books suggests ways to cope and deal with the ever changing life of stepfamiles. If you need help dealing with these changes, this easy to read book offers many sound suggestions to these dilemmas.

This book was very well done, it hit home on many points and shows the reader that a positive relationship with stepchildren is very possible! I loved this book and refer to it quite often. Don't let the title fool you.