Posted in Love-Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Single Parenting on Jun 19th, 2009
Being a single mother can often be challenging. Getting my needs met, when I feel responsible for all of the needs in our family, can often seem impossible. So, I often find myself holding out and holding out and taking care of everyone else and then at some point the damn breaks and I can’t [...]
Posted in Love-Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Single Parenting on Jun 10th, 2009
As a young child, I vividly remember going to the beach. It was a place where all my troubles dropped away and I felt connected to my sister in a way that didn’t happen at home. We would search, for hours, for shells to take back and share with all our friends. Each one, [...]
Posted in Love-Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Single Parenting on Jun 2nd, 2009
I have a very strong need to be “heard”. When I was growing up we called my dad the “deaf ear”. When you were talking with him about something he didn’t like or wasn’t interested in he would actually sit there and act like he didn’t hear you. I could talk till I was blue [...]
Posted in Love-Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Single Parenting on May 27th, 2009
Example: My daughter had some friends over for a sleep-over and she was being very controlling about turning the light off, the music they played and who slept where. Her need to control, is a trigger for me and I began to try and get her to stop. I moved out of a “loving” state [...]
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