Category: Parenting

After two weeks, my children have returned home. It’s the longest they’ve been away. And today, I got into an argument with my eldest kid. You know it’s going to happen. We are all different people. There will be disagreements. That knowledge, however, doesn’t keep it from hurting. It’s just something else I chalk up…

Yes, parenting is hard. Single parenting is harder. As a single parent, you don’t have a partner to either reassure you that you are doing the right thing, advise when things go wrong or commiserate on the struggle. You are left twisting in the wind, unknowing if what you are doing is right. It’s even…

I seriously dislike feeling as if I’m failing my children in helping them be prepared for the adult world. My oldest is starting to gauge their ears. For those lucky enough to not know what that is, it is putting large disks or rings in earlobes big enough to fit a quarter or larger. If…