Step-Children

[venus0517]

How do you cope with parenting your children and your step-children? What if you have no desire to parent the step-child and have more of a indifferent stand on the whole idea?

 

[seoj]

Personally, I parent my step-child as though she is my own... which, basically, she is. We have her full time and she is only with her mom every other weekend (if that). So she IS my kid, plus her Dad and I have very similar parenting styles. Which is nice to know, as we'll have a LO to bring up together soon I would not parent my SD any differently though- as the rules I have in place for one child should be the same for the others. Obviously kids ARE different, and some techniques may not work exactly the same for each kid... but overall, the basic "house rules" should be the same. Least that is my two cents on the matter.