079: Stepkid Who Became A Full-time Stepmom To Five Stepkids

In this episode of the Nacho Kids Podcast, Lori, co-founder of Nacho Kids, interviews stepmom Jasmine! Jasmine has been blending for three years and is a full-time stepmom to five stepkids! Yes, five! She also has one bio daughter and an “ours” son. Jasmine admits that she herself has been high conflict in the past. Being a stepkid herself, Jasmine tries to see things from the stepkids’ perspectives, and also from the bio mom’s perspective. As we know blending isn’t easy and it hasn’t been unicorns and rainbows for Jasmine either. After having a “come to Jesus” meeting with her significant other, they agreed she’d Nacho his teenage son’s and let him parent them, and she’d parent the girls, including stepdaughter, and of course the “ours” baby.   In this episode, we discuss: Being close in age to your oldest stepkid Being a high conflict stepmom Trying to understand bio moms absence Looking at things from the stepkids’ perspectives Being a stepkid that only saw her bio mom during the summer