If I could go back to the beginning of my Stepmum journey there’s so much I’d do differently… But the first thing would be to not try so hard! Sounds counter intuitive right? We should be trying? Well to some extent yes… but too much trying will drain you. Especially if not everybody involved wants your family to succeed! I spent so so many hours, evenings, weekends, researching stepfamily dynamics, how to ‘blend’ the family successfully, how to help children who were finding things hard, and so