ADVICE FROM OTHER STEP-PARENTS

✚ Don’t interview your step-children. Ask no more than three questions in a row, and then give it a rest.

✚ Make a decision in your relationship to make love more important than money.

✚ You can never make someone like you.

✚ Never ask the biological parent to choose between you and their children. Even if they choose you, you will have lost.

✚ Do not attempt to reason with children who think they are right.

✚ Give the children plenty of time alone with their parent.