5 Tips to Deal with Step Children
4. Don’t yell back
If your stepchild feels resentful with your presence in the house, you may face situations in which they abuse you verbally or throw tantrums at you. Although you know that you don’t deserve it, resist your urge of yelling back at them. If you yell back, you are giving him/her another reason to be angry at you.
5. Become your stepchild’s friend
When your stepchildren misbehave, your husband is likely to get angry at them, just like a biological parent. This is your chance to earn brownie points by sweetly talking to them. You are not the biological parent so it is not a given for you, to deal with them by yielding authority. Give them a chance to open up to you while their father is angry at them by being more of a friend rather than a stepmother.
