• The Terrifying Threes Are Upon Us!

    20th August 2015

    I’ve always known that toddlers go through the “Terrible Twos” which consist of loud, screaming, stomping tantrums and general defiance, but nobody ever warned me about what comes after that. The TERRIFYING THREES. A Familiar Scene I laughed when someone pre- warned me just before his third birthday a few months ago, as I had…

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  • Guest Post by Gingerbread: Getting Financial Help In An Emergency

    29th July 2015

    I’ve heard so many awful stories about people who have taken out payday loans in a desperate bid to pay bills and keep a roof over their children’s heads, so when Kathyrn Excell at the rather brilliant single parent charity Gingerbread offered to write some money tips for us, I jumped at the chance to…

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  • Single Parent Spotlight: Kelly

    28th July 2015

    The aim of these interviews is to show how AMAZING us working single parents are.  I want to highlight how hard, but also how rewarding being a working single parent is, and to hear how other people in my position handle the tougher times, in the hopes I learn how to be the best parent I can…

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  • Neuro Linguistic Programming for Single Parents

    8th July 2015

    NLP is something I’ve dabbled in often during my working and personal lives. It is a pretty clever way of ‘tricking’ or ‘reorganising’ the brain to think about things in different, more positive ways. Paul McKenna uses it a lot in his books and hypnosis and I’ve been fortunate enough to read two new books…

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  • Taking My Son Camping For The First Time…

    7th July 2015

    A couple of weeks ago my son and I were invited to a bloggers’ camping weekend trip run by Camping in the Forest (CiTF) which looked both challenging and exciting, so I accepted! I haven’t camped since I was a teenager at Girl Guides and that was not an enjoyable experience at all, because all…

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  • Single Parent Spotlight: Nicky Booth

    4th July 2015

    The aim of these interviews is to show how AMAZING us working single parents are.  I want to highlight how hard, but also how rewarding being a working single parent is, and to hear how other people in my position handle the tougher times, in the hopes I learn how to be the best parent I can…

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  • Surviving The School Holidays: Guest Post by Vivienne Smith

    17th June 2015

    I recently met fellow single parent Vivenne Smith at a recent Uflourish Pregancy & Family Fair as she was talking about ways to reduce stress as a parent.  She has written a book called The Single Mums Survival Guide which uses some NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) techniques as well as including useful tips on how to…

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  • Single Parent Spotlight: Catherine Owens

    23rd May 2015

    The aim of these interviews is to show how AMAZING us working single parents are.  I want to highlight how hard, but also how rewarding being a working single parent is, and to hear how other people in my position handle the tougher times, in the hopes I learn how to be the best parent I can…

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  • Single Parent Spotlight: Kirsty Darcy

    16th May 2015

    The aim of these interviews is to show how AMAZING us working single parents are.  I want to highlight how hard, but also how rewarding being a working single parent is, and to hear how other people in my position handle the tougher times, in the hopes I learn how to be the best parent I can…

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  • Single Parent Spotlight: Sam Jay

    9th May 2015

    The aim of these interviews is to show how AMAZING us working single parents are.  I want to highlight how hard, but also how rewarding being a working single parent is, and to hear how other people in my position handle the tougher times, in the hopes I learn how to be the best parent I can…

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