Single Parenting

The welfare state in the UK has many opportunities available to help single individuals and particularly parents with the costs of maintaining a home and raising a child. The benefits available to parents have risen dramatically over the years and ... - test

In the world of dating, there seem to be rules and expiration dates that single parents are simply too busy or too harassed to keep up with. By the time they are ready to reenter the dating scene, it’s easy ... - test

Single parent? If so you’re perilously close to burn out on many occasions. While you can never put that fully behind you, you can take life by the horns a bit a make the days just a bit easier helping ... - test

If you find yourself a single parent following a divorce, your transition will be challenging. Raising a child from birth might require you to handle issues with the child’s other parent, but a divorce after years together adds the extra ... - test

Single parenting doesn’t have to be as isolated and exhausting as it is often made out to be. Parenting is not an easy task, but doing things by yourself can be freeing and even fun if you take the right ... - test

To be a single mum, you need only a child without a partner around. But to parent your child successfully, you can take lessons from the upbeat mothers who seem to do it all without a glitch, and still have ... - test

When you hear of single parenting, everyone presumes you’re referring to the mother raising children alone. While this is truly the case in a vast majority of single parent households, it is not the rule. There are exceptions where fathers ... - test

If you want to give your child the best possible start, the area you should focus on the most is proper nutrition followed closely by education. There is actually a tie between healthy foods and brain power, so really, nutrition ... - test

The mind of a male is fundamentally different from that of a female. This makes sense in concept, but in practice many mothers struggling to raise a boy forget just how different they can be. While there are differences as ... - test

One of the areas children of single parents suffer is their overall health. Single parents often don’t have the luxury of examining every inch of their child to find little scratches and bumps that need care. A scratch on a ... - test

There are stigmas attached to everything. But in a world where almost two in three marriages ends in divorce – if you ever bothered to marry in the first place, there are many myths floating around regarding the virtue of ... - test

For most parents, single or not, the mornings present the biggest challenge. There is so much to do and a very definite time limit on when it has to be done. If you find yourself faced with morning after morning ... - test

When you’re a single parent, in many cases you’re still not parenting your child completely alone. Your child’s other parent might have custody for every other weekend or a few weeks in the summer. When you send your child off, ... - test

If you’ve recently begun dating, it’s very likely your child will experience concern over the relationship as she might very well view it as coming between you and her. While it is normal that she be concerned, this jealousy and ... - test

There are many aspects of single parenting that are especially challenging. One that many single parents don’t consider is establishing effective boundaries between parents and child. Often, in a single parent/single child situation, the child is elevated to an almost ... - test

It would seem to outsiders that single parents would have the best opportunities to bond with their children. While this may be true in cases with a single child, a single parenting juggling many children and many other responsibilities often ... - test