Real Dad/Step Dad: Lessons Taught and Learned upon Inheriting a Pile of Children

Good Dad/Good Advice

Jared Wynn covers much ground, tons of it. Between scenes with his kids and wife and her ex there's riffs on meditation and sundry and a backloaded glossary of terms both psychological and spiritual. Throughout he shows he's a stand-up guy in doing a wonderful wizardry in stepping in as the step father of his children while bestowing on them hard-earned life lessons and on us his guiding lights in sharing a wealth of terms and their definitions. I enjoyed the psychological ones and found myself noting the ones my wife is suffering from and my kids and myself too. I also liked the simple explanations of complex religions, giving us the gist of them. Perhaps in a future book these could be woven into the fabric of the tome in the form of epigraphs as in a string of them at chapter ends and/or beginnings, instead of shoveled in as they were. I also liked his restraint in not going off on the skiddos' biological father which showed a remarkable strength of character and one who has his stuff together. Keep writing, Jared! You have much to share and I profited from your wisdom. Fine work.