10 Things I have learnt being a Single Mum

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With being a single parent for the last ten years I have learnt a few things I might never have learnt if I was still married.

1 – I learnt that even though life has moved on from the Victorian era, some people’s views haven’t moved with it. Negatively and prejudices against single mums is still out there.

2 – I learnt that I am a lot stronger than I ever thought I was.

To Send or Not to Send a Child to Their Room

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When I was young I was brought up fairly strictly. There wasn’t any room for manoeuvre. My parents spoke, I listened. They asked me to do something, I did it instantly. If on the rare occasions I didn’t, there was punishment. There wasn’t though any of the ‘sending to my room stuff’. At the time I didn’t notice, it was only when my children came along and started testing my patience that I had to think back to my childhood and how my parents disciplined me.

My Top Tips on Coping as a Single Mum

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I am sure I am not the only one who gets asked how to cope with being a single mum, so here are my top tips on how I cope with being a single mum. They helped as much today as they did nearly 10 years ago when I first became a single parent.

Accept there will be good days and bad - its not just you who will have good and bad days, your children will too. Be as supportive as you can on their bad days and respect the fact they may need to talk about him and the situation.

Letting Them Learn by Doing

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I am often asked what the hardest part of parenting is. For me it’s not the lack of hours in the day as whatever I don’t get done today will be still sitting there tomorrow. Nor is it the forever tiredness as I know at the end of the day they will go to sleep and I can too. It’s not any of those things for me. For me it’s the letting my children learn by doing. I don’t mean give them a box of matches so that they learn that fire hurts.

Being a Real Parent

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For me the dawning of being a Real Parent was no eureka moment, no life changing experience complete with fireworks like they have in the films. It was a slow realisation that the so called perfect mum never actually existed. I had read every anti-natal book available, waded through all the baby books and yet once I was left alone with my first baby to change its first nappy I was a blubbering mess. I muddled through the early years raising two children but it wasn’t till I was a single parent that for me the dreaded perfect mum idol entered my life.

5 Top Tips For Getting Your Toddler To Eat Healthy Food

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Being a parent can be difficult at the best of times. You want to do the best for your toddler, but unfortunately your best efforts wont always please everybody, especially your toddler.

Being a parent doesn’t come with a job description and a mentor to guide you through the tough times, which is why I have dedicated this article to giving you parents a handful of simple but effective tips to get your toddler eating properly with no terrible twos temper tantrums.

Wellies, Nappies and a New Tie

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The sun has decided to show itself again after 6 weeks of hiding. Ahh it must be time for the children to go back to school. 6 weeks of rain, not quiet rain and not raining now but will be in a minute, have moved aside for the sunshine. It happens every year so I am no longer surprised by the suns timing. One of the biggest problems I find is what to supply the kids with on their way to school. Its almost like there are three seasons in one day some days. I can look on my phone in the middle of the day and the forecast has shown something the complete opposite of what I saw in the morning. In between seasons, Esprit clothing for children usually fits the bill. They have all sorts of back- at-school packs. Right at the end of the holidays, the centres are crazy busy and the kids want for more, more, more and it usually takes me hours before I get out of there. Regardless we have survived the holidays intact.