Date Submitted: Oct 30, 2009 - 5:50:05 AM
Summary: Single Parent Holidays, as a phrase, is a bit of an oxymoron (you know, like 'deafening silence' or ' bitter sweet').  We can all be full of expectations of relaxing, reading maybe a bit of nail painting. But in reality, taking children on planes, trains, buses and expeditions when there's no one but 'little ol' you' to keep things running smoothly can be exhausting.

Date Submitted: Sep 11, 2009 - 4:46:58 AM
Summary: You know one of the reasons we can end up single parenting is that we no longer share the same values as our children’s other parent and our respect and understanding of that person alters to the point of break down.

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2009 - 7:35:00 AM
Summary: How often do you decide that you want something different for your life? Better relationships with your children, ex-partner or friends. Better fitness, more money, a bigger house, a more flexible job, a ‘cooler’ wardrobe, a new relationship, or simply more ‘me time’.

Date Submitted: Sep 5, 2009 - 8:00:12 AM
Summary: There’s now doubt about it, when I first became a single parent, which was from day 1 ( I left my marriage when I was 3 months pregnant), I wanted so much to separate my ‘new life’ with my daughter (who I adored from the first second I saw her)

Date Submitted: Sep 3, 2009 - 2:18:58 AM
Summary: I read books on metaphysics on a regular basis. There’s a huge raising up of global consciousness around the fact that our limitations rarely come from our government, our society, our family or our friends. Our limitations come from our mindset. We can positively influence our mindset by choosing the environments we spend time in, the books we read, TV we watch, music we listen to, the language we select and even the food we eat.

Date Submitted: Aug 19, 2009 - 1:42:08 AM
Summary: We’ve all had feelings of guilt about the fact that we’re at work when our children are being looked after by other adults. At the outset of this phase for me (5 years ago), I found it hard to get my head around. But I’ve come to understand that there are benefits to being a working single parent and they’re totally worth focusing on.

Date Submitted: Aug 7, 2009 - 7:09:39 AM
Summary: The first step towards getting what you want, is knowing what you want. I decided very early on that my business was going to support my time with my daughter and not suck away these valuable years with me at work.

Date Submitted: Aug 3, 2009 - 2:24:04 AM
Summary: I was talking with a friend recently and agreeing that things have changed since we were parented. There is a bigger focus on childrens progressive thoughts and feeling these days, a priceless evolution, much of which has come from a greater understanding of what they benefit from physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Date Submitted: Jul 31, 2009 - 6:20:06 AM
Summary: Some single parents have never had the other parent around, so they’ve only ever expected to get on with things alone. However, other single parents have had the experience of being part of a nuclear family and having a partner to share the load.

Date Submitted: Jul 30, 2009 - 1:46:20 AM
Summary: When we have to be both mother and

father for our children in their primary

residence it can be a challenge to know how to

supply nurture, encouragement, protection and

provision in the right measures. Our children

will continue to evolve physically,

emotionally and spiritually over time and

their biggest influences, in their most

informative years, will come from their home

environment.