Ex-Etiquette for Parents: Good Behavior After a Divorce or Separation by Jann Blackstone-Ford, M.A. and Sharyle Jupe is a guide for families going through the trama of separation and divorce.

Whether you are the biological parent or the stepparent, this guide will give you the tools to raise happy, well-adjusted children through a stressful separation or divorce. Sample dialogues take you step-by-step through difficult everyday scenarios such as coordinating discipline between households, introducing a new partner, and dealing with late child support payments.

When adults are empowered to change what they can--their attitudes and communication skills--they can begin to interact on a civil, healthy level, confidently handling awkward stiutations and powerful emotions while keeping the chidren's best interests their first priority.

Jann Blackstone-Ford, M.A. is a divorce and stepfamily mediator and the founder of www.bonusfamilies.com. She is also the author of My Parents are Divorced, Too, and The Custody Solution Sourcebook.

Sharyl Jupe is her friend and her husband's first wife. (That's saying something!)

They have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, and in Woman's Day and Child magazine. They write a nationally syndicated newspaper column, "Ex-Etiquette."

ISBN: 1-55652-551-6