Bumps In The Road To Expect As A New Stepparent

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This isn’t your jurisdiction

Some areas just won’t be your jurisdiction. You won’t quite know what they are until you accidentally try to approach them. You’ll just have to get burned to know what you can’t touch again. In some families, you may find that stepparents are not to talk to the kids about sex or drugs – the biological parents feel that is fully their area. In some families, you may find stepparents aren’t supposed to talk to the kids about their religion if it varies from the kids’ biological parents’ religion. There will be times you try to parent kids on things like, eating their vegetables, and they’ll tell you that’s not your place – but it is. There will be other times they’ll say something isn’t your place, and your spouse will back that up. It can be uncomfortable, but it’s just a part of being in a blended family.