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Volunteering with children

The King of Everything and I volunteered for a Service Day here in town, and met up with some great groups working together under the umbrella of Americorps to beautify a school in a rougher...

Started in Solo Mother • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: activism, helping-others, single-mom, single-mother, volunteer
Please ma, can I have him can I can I?

One of the battles here at single mother headquarters is the battle for a pet. The kid hasn’t marshalled all his forces yet, so I can keep the upper hand for now. But he’s wearing down my...

Started in Solo Mother • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: family fun, cats, dogs, kids, pets
Did you have a hard Monday, single mothers?

I’m sorry, I’m having a very rough go of it at this very moment. I’m trying hard to take my own advice and breathe through the drama, knowing that pain and sadness are not...

Started in Solo Mother • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: sanity, birth control, funny commercials, single-mom, single-mother
Even I’d throw a temper tantrum if I thought it would help

The KoE is whiny mush by the time 7PM comes around, but the family wanted to represent at the PTA meeting tonight, and the older grades were demonstrating the games they developed for the Sally Ride...

Started in Solo Mother • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: parenting, anger, kids, positive-parenting, single-mom
Putting things into perspective

I’ve been frustrated and feeling sorry for myself lately, for no concrete reason but that dreams don’t look like they’ll be coming true any time soon. Hey, at least I have dreams,...

Started in Solo Mother • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: essential reading, homelessness, single-mom, single-parent
Summertime is coming! Get out the grill!

It’s A Party! Lifestyles Channel Is Celebrating Summer   The Lifestyles channel is celebrating the good old summertime. Gayla compiled this list of wonderful summertime links. Just in time...

Started in Solo Mother • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: uncategorized, celebrations, memorial-day, ritual, single-mom
Single mom tries public humiliation parenting

Christina Wilcox, a single mother in Omaha, Nebraska, put her kids on a street corner for over an hour, recently. Each of the three, a teen and two little ones, stood with home made signs proclaiming...

Started in Solo Mother • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: parenting, discipline, humiliation, natural-consequences, positive-parenting
A song to get you through if you’re going through it now

I love Imogen Heap. She’s got an amazing voice, a turn of phrase that makes the hair on my arms stand on end, and a comfort that has pulled me through breakup and breakdown. So if you need a...

Started in Solo Mother • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: music to divorce by, sanity, frou frou, imogen heap, let go
Get political, single mom!

If this long, dragged out, never ending contest for the Democratic nomination has done nothing else, it has kept the idea of voting alive in the minds of the American people that maybe, just maybe,...

Started in Solo Mother • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: activism, politics, single-mom, single-mother
Three day weekend therapy

This was quite a weekend, capped off by my 40th birthday. Want a peek at how this SoloMother lives? I think my weekend really began on Thursday, spicy Drunken Noodles with a lovely friend, then over...

Started in Solo Mother • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: family fun, inspiration, love, birthday cake, celebration