Understanding Your Stepchild and Building Trust First of all, you must decide how you will fit into the family and not allow yourself to feel easily rejected by your stepchild. Children tend to give unconditional love to their biological parents and they may not even realize it when they're leaving you out. By Terry Gaspard Updated: April 16, 2022 Categories: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Tessa was about twelve years old when her father, Kevin, 48, married Lila, 47. At the time, she felt she had little control over the events unfolding in her life, including her father remarrying and starting a new family quickly. However, she never told her dad her feelings of frustration about her lack of control. Even though Lila seemed nice enough, it still didn’t seem fair to Tessa that her life had to change so drastically after Lila and her dad got married. For instance, she was told that she had to give up her bedroom and share a room with her six-year-old sister...