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What If I Was Being Evaluated?

I heard a very young woman talking the other day about how she was working to “get her children back”–obviously the Department of Human Services had taken her children and she had attended parenting classes. Now, she was having supervised visits and her take on the experience was that she was being “evaluated” to see if she was fit to parent full time. It got me to think about myself as a single parenting–what I do well and what I do not; and I wondered how I would feel and how I would fair if I was being evaluated? I … Continue reading →

The Joys and Challenges of Unique Experiences

We single parent families definitely do not always play things by the book. As a matter of fact, while our families may often look rather similar to two parent families, we are also just as likely to have unique perspective on things and our family history may include some rather unique experiences. The trick is to learn how to embrace this uniqueness and celebrate some of those unique shared experiences too. It seems to be human nature to want to “fit in” and feel like we are part of the group. And, in our society, we definitely have the whole … Continue reading →

Are There Attributes Unique to a Great Single Parent?

I was chatting recently with a small group of parents—a couple of us were single parents while the others were partnered. One of the partnered ones said that she could never hack it as a single parent, she just didn’t have the right “attributes.” Now, I tend to think that parenting is parenting in many ways regardless of your situation—single parenting just takes a bit more organization and focus. But, her comment did settle in with me and I thought it might be an interesting topic for the Single Parents blog—do you think there are different attributes, or special ones … Continue reading →