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Top 10 Tips For Stepfathers
- Understand and accept that love for your stepchildren or from them will not happen instantly, if at all!
- Don't attempt to discipline your stepchild until you have a strong friendship built on trust and respect, even if your partner asks you to!
- Work as a team with your new partner to establish new household rules and methods of discipline
- Talk to your spouse in private if you feel undermined or left out
- Be there for your stepchildren. Allow the children to come to you and never pass judgement on them. They will guide the relationship into what it needs to be.
- Keep any negative comments about your stepchildren's parents away from them. Try to focus on the good things their natural parents bring to the table
- Be flexible and prepared for things to change at a drop of a hat
- Be prepared to sometimes feel overwhelmed. Feelings of isolation, sadness, anger and powerlessness are all normal
- Don't try to compete with the children's biological father
- Don't be ashamed to seek outside support.
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