Stepmothering; Warts and All

“…there are known unknowns; that is to say there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.”

(United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld 2002)

Donald Rumsfeld was talking about intelligence gathering and terrorism but there are parallels with stepparenting (or any type of parenting!)

There are issues that you know will need to be faced and things you will need to learn (the known unknowns) but there are also things you never saw coming (the unknown unknowns).

Surprises are great when they involve cake, weekends in Paris or diamonds but not so great when trying to navigate stepparenthood.

‘Stepmothering; Warts and All’ is the wisdom gleaned from experience and includes anecdotes from many stepmothers.