Stepparenting Essentials provides twenty-five essential rules and preventive advice to help the stepparent blend and improve a new family's future. The bioparent must be smart about his or her choice in a partner and be certain that interaction between original and new family members will enhance, not damage, the self-esteem of a stepchild. Co-parenting requires insight and education.Find answers to pitfalls that will smooth out family conduct during the first years of blending children with new stepparents. Essential rules depict stepparenting moments accompanied by psychological explanations and illustrations. You may know the moments--if you do not laught, then you migh cry.