This article features parenting and relationship advice from counsellor Aimee Righton and psychotherapist Debbie Keenan. Counsellors and therapists are noticing a trend among blended families where stepparents will take on more of a ‘nacho parent’ role. Per Pop Sugar, in very basic terms it means “not your kid, not your problem” – so if someone’s stepchild is acting out, the stepparent would take a step back and not get involved with disciplining them or asserting authority, leaving that instead to the child’s biological parent. “In many cases this is not even a formally agreed parenting strategy but rather something that evolves naturally within the family dynamic as adults attempt to reduce conflict or tension between the stepparent and the child,” says Counselling Directory member Aimee Righton. While she is noticing the trend more and more in her work – “this is something that is appearing more often in my private practice and increasingly within wider society,” she tells HuffPost UK – she acknowledges it can be “a rather non-committal approach” that carries both positive and …