Step Daddy-O

As a Step-Dad have you tried to be cool with your stepchildren? Oh boy! You have this step-parenting thing all figured out don’t you? You won’t try to be a father figure because you are not tied by bloodlines. So you think that if I try to be cool in their eyes instead they will like you better. After all they have had enough discipline in their lives, or so you think. This jocular attitude can certainly work some of the time but it can be severely lacking most of the time. They’re not counting on you for their levity; they get that from their friends.

I know it’s easier to take this tact as well because you ask yourself how am I to fit in to this blended family. You certainly don’t want to hear the dreaded: “You’re not my father”. Here’s a hint though that’s better than being Daddy-O because if they say that at least they are giving you consideration that you are a father figure to them not a clown which is the easier softer way.