His Kids, Her Kids

By Kimani Upshur, M.Ed.

His mom married her dad, and now you share a bathroom with a stranger you're supposed to call brother. His Kids, Her Kids is plain, honest help for the teenager building a real family that nobody in it chose — the announcement, two sets of rules, the grief for the old family shape that nobody names, the name you're not ready to say, the fairness ledger, the fight at the table, and the loyalty trap of carrying messages between two houses. Anchored in Romans 12:18 — "so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all" — it treats blended family as abundance, not awkwardness: nobody is forced to call anyone Mom, Dad, or brother before they're ready, and the book closes at a table that got bigger. Every chapter opens inside a real moment, carries an original illustration, and ends with one small move to try that week.

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