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I am a single mum to a (mostly) delightful tweenager I refer to as Moo. It has been just the two of us for ten years now and we generally bumble along just great. Yes, we are but two, but a family we are, nonetheless. I guess you could call us a 'single parent, only…
I write this on Halloween. A day for ghosts and ghouls and sticky fingered children. For me though, Halloween has, circumstantially, become a day in which key life events have occurred for me which have marked important change. If I was to be really dramatic (what, me?!) you could say Halloween is a day in…
I wonder how many of you read the title and assumed it refers to the absence of a parent. Bit tongue-in-cheek of me really but when we hear the words 'absence' and 'single parent' there's typically a connection. An inference. Usually of the absent, male variety (if the stereotype is to be believed). But for…
I posted my very first blog post a few days back under the category of single parenting. I mentioned in it that I have previously given little thought to what it means to be a single parent, or the impact it has had on my parenting experience, so recently acknowledging this as a 'thing' has…
The Sound of Motherhood 