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If the fairy tales of our childhood, blended families are
not considered to be mentioned in any ways. After we became adults, we will
then realize that fairy tales have a huge influence on us. Step parenting has a
sketchy reputation due to the scary tales about unkind mothers or step mothers
that makes the lives of the step kids miserable. This also contributes to the
way we view remarriage, divorce and blended family. Due to these facts, there
are step parents and friends or even family that offer help on raising kids
that are not ours or biological. Being a step parent, you need to prove to the
step kids that you are not the unkind step parents.
Stand back from disciplining and correcting your step kids
before both of you established yourselves as fair, caring and fully intact
parents in the blended family. Your direct input will contribute greatly to the
unappreciated acts of your kids and may results to rebellion against you in the
blended family home. New and hard roles will be given to the biological parents
and you are going to blamed them for sure. You can check how your partner
provides the behavior, ideas and compliance to his or her kids. If his or her
method is greatly working, then you can adopt it. And if it is not working, you
and your partner in the blended family as step parents and bio parents should
communicate on how to improve it. If you need blended family advice, you can
visit The Blended and Step Family Resource Center.
