Mar

27

Stay-At-Home Moms: The Pros and the Cons

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March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Being a stay-at-home mom is a wonderful experience, but it is not always a viable one for a single mother. In order for this to work, you must have money to live off. How you go about getting the money to do this is up to you, but it may not be easy.
Maybe you invested [...]

Mar

27

Work-At-Home Moms: The Pros and the Cons

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March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There are many pros and cons for a work-at-home mother, and they should be weighed heavily before choosing this situation.
Pros:

You will have more flexibility, possibly enabling you to get some of your work done while your children are napping, in bed for the night, or at school. This will allow you to spend more time [...]

Mar

26

Single Moms Go On Strike

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March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Do you have children who won’t do anything for themselves? For you? Are you always running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to keep up with everything?
If your children are old enough to make a sandwich, it may be time to go on strike.
Why go on strike? Because you can’t do [...]

Mar

26

Single Moms Take A Vacation

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March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Yes. We all need a vacation at times. We need to get away. We need time for ourselves. Time to enjoy life. Time to think. Time to de-stress.
In this post, i would like to offer up some ideas for a mini vacation for the single mom.

If you lack funds, find a place to send the [...]

Mar

25

As a Single Mother, I am Learning to Let Go

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March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Letting go is not always easy, especially when it is our children that we are supposed to let go of. Recent events have shown me that, sometimes, things go wrong in our letting go plans.
There was an incident where a young adult girl told her mother that she was not happy in the situation that [...]

Mar

25

Single Moms and the Recession

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March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A lot of single mothers will be used to living in the way that this article points to. They are used to not having a lot of money to work with, so the sacrifices they need to make now that we are in a recession do not bother them so much.
However, there are single mothers who [...]

Mar

24

Great Activities for Mothers and Their Adult Children

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March 24, 2009 | 4 Comments

My adult child is only nineteen, so I am still learning the things that we can do together. So far, she seems to like the same things that she did just a couple of years ago.
These are the things that Skye and I do together when she comes downstate to visit:

Go out to eat.
Shop.
Take walks.
Go [...]

Mar

24

Great Activities for Mothers and Teens

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March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Preteens and teens can be awesome, when they want to be. Why not take advantage of this by hanging out with them before they are ready to leave home. Teenagers like to many things, and I am going to show you the things that my daughters and I enjoy together:

Bowling.
Walking.
Going out to eat.
Going to the [...]

Mar

24

Single Moms Encourage their Children’s Passions

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March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment

What do your children love to do? What are they most passionate about? Are you supporting them in the endeavors?
Throughout their childhoods, people go through many changes. Their interests change as they learn new things and acquire new skills. These changes provide us, as single mother’s, with an opportunity to support the interests of each [...]

Mar

24

Educational Videos for Teens

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March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There are many educational videos that teens will enjoy. They often like to learn about real life situations, especially as far as history goes. I suggest movies based on real events. These are for more mature people, and may have partial nudity. Certainly, there is violence.

Dances with Wolves
The Blue and the Grey/The North and the [...]

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