Twitter and Single Parent Support

If you’re prone to the odd twitter session you will know what a #hashtag is.  When you’re watching your favourite programme on TV, the appropriate #hashtag can mean finding like minded people so much easier. A lively, if not heated, debate on anything from the rubbish ending of a programme to the weird fashion choices of the presenters can be followed so much easier.

Should Kids Do Chores?

When I worked in an office full time, the kids and I could be out of the house about 10 hours each day 5 days a week. So it was never a question if the kids should do housework, for my own sanity they had to. I am not talking anything along the lines of child slave labour, contra to my children’s belief, but they both had to help with things they could manage.

Summer Holidays Nearly Over

With one week left of the long summer holidays, did you manage to do all the things you hoped for? I haven’t managed any of the things I hoped I would.

I hoped for long summer days in the garden that resulted in impromptu bbq’s that lasted till the stars were out. It has rained and the days it didn’t rain it was either too windy or the kids had made use of the only sunny day and ran off into the sunset with their friends.

Single Parents are Brilliant – Spread the Word

Fed up with single parents being blamed for something yet again, this time the recent riots, Jo has set up a website for us single parents and those raised by single parents to have their say. Single Parents are Brilliant was launched today and she would really like to hear from you.

My School Holiday Pet Hate

If there is one thing I hate about school holidays it’s the feeding them bit. Yes I know it’s my parental duty to keep them alive and food is one of the important ones but give me a break. At least when they are at school there are only so many hours that they are home to ask for food. School holidays they always seem extra hungry and trying to fill them up is just a relentless task.

The Big Blue Slide

It’s a sad but also happy day in our house, actually garden, today. Ten years ago, when I was still married, we bought our son a slide. Not any old slide but one that would last awhile. Little did I realise that many years later I would be trying to convince my son it was time the slide moved on. This week the slide is going and it has been a long process to convince him he no longer needed a huge great big blue slide in the garden.

Twitter – I think I love you

I know it’s dangerous for me to watch DIY SOS and this week’s episode was no different. The team helped a single mum and her autistic son.  Queue tissues on the screen and on my sofa. All they did was to make her life easier, to make her house a home.