Single Mum life is hard work, non rewarding, funny, tiring and exhausting and thats just the good bits? A quick run down on what it’s really like to be a single mum. There is fun in there somewhere – honest.
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Being a single mum is many things. From hard work to the most rewarding thing you may ever do.
How to cope, what you may be entitled to and tips on making money go further
If you are new to being a single mum, find out what to expect
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I had been fairly pleased with myself for managing to have one of each, a son and a daughter that is. Now I am not so sure. Boys and girls are very different despite both being brought up in the same house, the same way and with the same rules. It is becoming more apparent as time ticks on that I’m being attacked from both sides. Read the full story »
New benefits section has been started. It is a bit of a mammoth job but seeing as it is one of the biggest terms mums are searching for I have started writing the benefits section to …
As I lay in bed the other night listening to the kids snoring – would be kind of sweet if it wasn’t through two closed doors, I was thinking about my kids and their bedrooms. …
Manners – why doesn’t the younger generation possess them anymore? I can’t honestly be the only one who thinks like this or maybe I am.
When I was young it was installed into me on a …
It is true that as single mums we are constantly counting the pennies, stretching things to their limit and finding ways to cut costs. There are 3 easy steps to shrinking your household budget not …
I am Maxlyn a life coach and I have been a single mum for nearly eight years now. I have endured all the high’s and low’s of being a single mum. I can honestly say the …
I’m not doing New Year’s resolutions anymore. Up until this year I have pushed myself to make a resolution list. It would be full of ‘new me’ ideas. I have wanted to be a better …
The cat has attacked the Christmas tree for the last time, no more baubles catapulted randomly across the room as he scales the tree and then embarks on a less than cat like descent. Stray …
Today things are very different. Women work, damn hard, and then fit in all the other things in life. A single mum does all that and then some more. Oh but now we are supposed to be a yummy mummy too.
I confess I am chronically jealous of any of you mums who have perfect kid’s bedrooms. It just can’t be natural.
I was at a friend’s today for coffee and as usual had to use her loo, which is just passed the bedrooms. I use to think it was a kid thing that they did to check out someone else’s house but now realise that I haven’t grown out
Being a single mum is at the best of times hard work but it is also very rewarding. Here I have talked to other single mums, as well as my own experience to find out the pros and cons of being a single mum.
There are moments in my single mum life I could wish myself away to another planet. You may be familiar with this feeling too. Like when the children don’t get on and I have to have more peace talks than the United Nations or when I not only singe tea but actually manage to cremate the last viable meal in the cupboards and we have to eat it. I sit
I don’t very often use the single mum card nor do I get wound up easily but last week I reached the end of my tether.
If your reading this form outside the UK let quickly explain our system here. Basically all your working life just under a third of your wages is taken from your wage packet before it is even paid to you. It’s paid direct to
I think the hardest part of being a single mum for me is Christmas. I can cope with most things that are thrown at me throughout the year and I am getting a dab hand at DIY. But Christmas is different. When I first separated from my children’s father we decided straight away not to get into the ‘take turns’ scenario over the Christmas period. We at least agreed that
Just had this one through and its such a bargain. Wallis are offering Confessions of a Single Mum readers 20% off for the rest of this week. So from Wednesday 25th till Sunday 29th quote the special code of TCB20and get that fabulous 20% off. As an extra saving the 20% code also works on all their
There will be a time in your life when he just isn’t the right one for you; He no longer hits your buttons and its time to call it a day. We know its heart breaking so now isn’t the time to seek revenge on all men who have trampled all over your heart in a less than human way. Use some break up etiquette.
Don’t drag it out-
We all like a bargain, so I bet the majority of you would prefer to save money when you buy on the internet. I got into buying on the internet before it was trendy.
I have two children so the idea of dragging them on the quest for a new item never filled me with enthusiasm. Now it’s a way of life.
I don’t
On perusing my children’s Christmas present list today, it has struck me how things have changed. I could now harp on about when I was young I was lucky to get an orange in my stocking or how the size of the actual orange was a good indication of how good the present was going to be or not to be as more often the case. But I think my children
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