Don't Call Me Mom: How to Improve Your In-Law Relationships

By Leah Shifrin Averick

This book should be mandatory reading for prospective couples and in-laws...prevent in-laws from becoming outlaws. --Shalom Feinberg, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811908364
• ISBN13: 9780811908368
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Lifetime Books
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Social Work At Work

In Don't Call Me Mom: How To Improve Your In-Law Relationships, Leah Averick brings into focus one of society's most complex and troublesome relationships. By encouraging people from different walks of life to talk about their in-law experiences -- experiences that readers will quickly and easily recognize as applicable to their own life situations -- important insights and understandings are obtained. To this Averick adds her own useful interpretations and suggestions, in this way providing worthwhile guidelines to readers for dealing with their own feelings and behaviors in this important area of every day life.

Understanding Inlaw Relationships Priceless

Unlike baking an instant cake, successfully coping with and managing family relationships is a complex task. The wide range of potential issues and approaches call for sensitivity, perceptiveness and understanding.I found that this book provided me with a valuable perspective as well as insights and creative ways to improve inlaw relationships, well really, ALL kinds of family relationships.Best of all, this book is not written in some obscure, multi-syllabic medical or technical style. It is very "digestible" information and I recommend it to anyone about to "acquire" a new set of inlaws or someone who is facing inlaw issues today.I'm hoping to see future writings by this very accessible, human author who demonstrates the compassion and understanding we all need to improve our family relationships.

Perfect for a gift

This book is written in a non-threatening prose that will spark many discussions in families. It tells the story of every family member from all sides whether you are a mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, niece, cousin or grandchild, daughter or son-in-law or ex. No one is left out. This book is an ice breaker and a warm cup of tea once things start improving. Read this and you will be guaranteed a happier life no matter who your relatives are.