Equipping Your Children for a Bright Future: 5 Simple Rules 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 infor ...
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From Good to Great – 5 Simple Strategies for Successful Single Parenting 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. For them the transition to an extended family - them with the children an ...
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I was talking with a friend recently and agreeing that ‘things have changed since we were parented’. There’s a bigger focus on children’s 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. It doesn’t mean though that our children rule the roost o ...
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Motivation in a Minute – Simple Skills to Self-Motivate and Mood-Regulate It dawned on me that there are some things worth mentioning around ‘motivation’ – how to access it and how to maintain it. Here are my top 5 tips: Listen to uplifting music Whether it’s Mozart, Motorhead or Musicals, if you have a piece (or pieces) of music which makes you feel great and inspired when you liste ...
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One of my biggest challenges when I started to build a life as a single parent was to not compare myself with 2-parent families. They appeared to do things smoothly, effortlessly and happily. I struggled with everything: parenting skills, work, conflict with my ex, communicating with well-intentioned family, guilt that the nursery spent more waking hours with my daughter than I did, self confide ...
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One of my biggest challenges when I started to build a life as a single parent was to not compare myself with 2-parent families. They appeared to do things smoothly, effortlessly and happily. I struggled with everything: parenting skills, work, conflict with my ex, communicating with well-intentioned family, guilt that the nursery spent more waking hours with my daughter than I did, self confide ...
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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. We juggle both the protecting and the providing role ...
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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. We juggle both the protecting and the providing role ...
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I read books on metaphysics (the philosophy of ‘being’) 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, ...
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Letting Your Children Go and Grow & Coping With Their Absence 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) from my ‘old life’ with my ex-husband (who I simply couldn’t find any polit ...
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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’. Well, I’m here to tell you that you can have it all. And you deserve the very best. And there are no limits to what ...
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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. So how do we keep improving the quality of our relationships (especially with our exes) in an extended family when it didn’t work under the same roof? Practice Integrity Integr ...
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"Single mothers who put photos of their pre-school kids on their social networking homepages are creating a happy hunting ground for pedophiles." The warning comes from Crystal Jacquez, managing editor of Guys and Lies.com, the online back grounding site designed exclusively for women. "Single mothers almost always do it." says, Jacquez. "It's not only incredibly dangerous but worse, most singl ...
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Seven years ago I had a brand new 14-week-old baby and I had to go back to work. I'd left my husband, bought a flat on my own and was striking out to support my little family as best I knew how. I was good at it. I had a great job, a good routine ... then after 3 months back at work I was made redundant. Well, with mouths to feed, nappies to buy, a nanny to finance and a mortage to pay, there wa ...
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Do you remember your own tumultuous teenage years? As parents it's easy for us to slip on the mantle of responsibility and forget that once upon a time we were just as scared, confused and rebellious as our own teens were. That's why Christian e-books have the ability to reach out to our teens when we feel like we ourselves have failed as parents. The first thing you have to understand before you ...
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