Blending Families

Integrating former family units into a new strong, happy and successful blended family can be a minefield, but it can also be a thoroughly rewarding voyage of discovery. Blending Families explores how the impact of the past and hopes for the future can shape the way we manage the everyday challenges of living in a blended family. Understanding both the parents' and the children's perceptions of the new situations in which they find themselves and their possible reactions to their new living environment is the essence of the book.

Flicky Gildenhuys equips the reader to anticipate what may or may not happen, and provides parents with tried-and-tested, down-to-earth psychological tools and experience gained from decades of family counselling in order to manage whatever issues may arise to achieve true and lasting happiness as a new family.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cape Town-based Flicky Gildenhuys is a well-known educator in the field of parenting. Her enduring passion for helping families spans three decades and has produced innovative parenting programmes and many successful family interventions. This book is an expression of years of working with families, combined with her own personal experience of bringing up her six children in a blended family. Flicky is a UCT psychology graduate with further studies in Clinical Social Work and counselling.