Meet The Characters :: Chapter 1 :: Chapter 2 :: Chapter 3 Welcome to Lost Island, North Carolina where the story Life Starts At Mom takes place. The current home of a few very special women who while are so diverse have one thing, one very important thing in common. They are all single moms ... Read More »
Books For Single Moms
Single mothers carry an enormous load of responsibility, especially those having sole and/or primary custody of minor children.
They nourish, they nurture, they teach, they discipline, they shelter, they protect, and they provide… all without the assistance of another equally-invested adult.
There are numerous books written for, written by or dedicated to single mothers. Here you can read about many of these books, get information on them and see which SingleMom.com find interesting. Some of these books are also offered in the giveaway section.
Sistas Without Mistas (2)
I think I could probably walk into a job making about $10/hr with my background in hospitality and rooms operation. So if I worked full time at a local hotel, I might bring home $400/week before taxes. The cost of before and after school care for three children – which I would need to work a day ... Read More »
Sistas Without Mistas (1)
I've been single parenting for about three years now. I have a lot of help. And even with all that help I'm still overwhelmed. But what I'm doing is nothing compared to what some of my homegirls are going through. Here's the thing. When a kid goes and shoots up a school, or robs a Circle K and ... Read More »
First-Born Jealousy
Question: Our first-born is showing extreme jealousy towards the new baby. He’s obviously mad at us for disrupting the predictable flow of his life with this new challenger for our attention. How can we smooth things out? Think about it: Before the baby entered your family, your toddler was ... Read More »
Stages of Loneliness (4)
Paralysis There is this strange dueling that goes on when you reach this stage of simultaneously feeling ready to date again, but also complete terror of even speaking to the opposite sex ever again. Maybe that's a little melodramatic. My landlord is a dude and I can speak to him just ... Read More »
Should I Date Or Take A Break? (12)
Like attracts like. If you know who you truly are: a person who is mature, responsible, capable, has herself together, a great parent, a hard worker, a kind, compassionate, strong person, then why would you not attract someone similar in a partner? If you find that you are attracting the kind of ... Read More »
Where Am I Sleeping Tonight? – A Story of Divorce
Where Am I Sleeping Tonight?-A Story of Divorce, Boulden Publishing, 2008, is the only children's fiction storybook about shared custody for the elementary school aged child. The story is about two brothers, Mark, a 4th grader and Evan, a 1st grader. It chronicles their daily life, having two ... Read More »
Should I Date Or Take A Break? (11)
If you and your partner are, as they say, "unequally yoked", it has the potential to cause resentment in your children. As you're trying to bring your partner to 'full-blown' maturity, or responsibility, or adulthood, or religion, or spirituality, or strength or whatever it is, your children are ... Read More »
Stages of Loneliness (3)
Repulsion I became repulsed - completely repulsed - by the idea of sharing my space, my life, my bed, my words, my ideas, my opinions with another man ever, ever, ever. Everything every man ever did annoyed the living shit out of me. I was not the girl to vent to. If you said, "Ugh, my ... Read More »
Should I Date Or Take A Break? (10)
Leanna, a mother to a six year old son and a ten year old daughter, fell in love with a new man and became engaged. She was a relatively successful, hardworking woman and her fiance was stumbling in his career, in between jobs and contemplating going in a new direction altogether. Problem was, he ... Read More »
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