Archive for category: Single Parents

/ March 14, 2013 12:20 am

Spring Cleaning the Dating Scene For Single Parents

Learning To Filter Through All Of The Challenges While Dating By Katrina Smith April 9th, 2012 As my first wedding anniversary approaches, I can’t help but to think over my life about how I finally found the man that brings me so much joy and happiness after going through so much pain and heartbreak. Before I married, I was a single [...]

/ December 31, 2012 11:59 pm

‘Til Death Do Us Part

Coping With Young Widowhood By: Tanisha Mackin 01/01/2013 My dream came to an abrupt end in August 2010. I married my best friend, soul mate, lover, partner and father of my children in August of 2009.  He meant the world to me. We would go on outings and see couples that had been married for years.  I’d look at him [...]

/ November 1, 2012 9:39 pm

…And Baby Makes Two

In Her Shoes: Inspiration from a Single Mother By Shirree Shulte 11/1/2012 Single parents have to do everything by themselves with nobody else to blame if something isn’t done. Even when they have friends and family to help, bearing the weight can be a very difficult thing. Being a single parent is never easy. But it can be very rewarding, and [...]

/ November 1, 2012 12:03 am

Birds of a Different Nest

Same Goals, Different Environments By Shannon Taylor 11/1/2012 As I go about my busy life of being a wife, mom, entrepreneur and writer, I am often in awe at what and whom God has blessed me with. We just bought our first home, we have two cars, my girls and most of all I have my wonderful husband. Whatever I need, I [...]

/ September 13, 2012 11:59 pm

The Little Red Riding Hood Dilemma

Recognizing and Fleeing A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing By Briana Danielle Williams 9/01/2012 As the traditional fairytale goes, Little Red Riding Hood was just the average girl on a journey to deliver gifts of condolence to her ill grandmother’s home at the end of the woods. Although the walk through the woods should have been an easy trip (seeing that [...]

/ May 9, 2012 11:59 pm

If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time…

Reflections of a Single Mom By Kischa Pena 5/10/2012   I used to say, “If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn’t change a thing.”  If a person were able to change things they had done in the past, obviously it would affect their outcome. You wouldn’t have the children that you so deeply love; the family [...]

/ April 9, 2012 11:00 pm

Turn That Thing Off!

Parenting 101: For the Sleep Deprived, Control Freak, Over-Worked, Underpaid Single Mom By Kairis Joy Colter Burt April 9th, 2012   “Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6.  When he is old? So what’s a modern day parent supposed to do in the [...]