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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…
This evening as I scrolled mindlessly through my personal Facebook account I read a post by a fellow single parent I know. She was tired from working full time and raising her kiddies, and obviously something had triggered her. So she posted about it. A blurty, raw post seemingly born from frustration and anger towards…
Yesterday was a shit show. A clash of titans in the form of a stroppy ten year old girl-child and her end-of-tethered' mother. One of those days, as a parent, when you just don't know your left from your right but, damn it, you're the adult and you need to bloody well bring it. Despite…
My 10 year old daughter and I have just returned from our first trip to Center Parcs. We chose Elveden as it's only a couple of hours away in the car. Choosing to go in February half-term was a bit of a gamble weather-wise but we could not have been luckier: it was mild, it…
Continue reading ➞ Single parent review of a trip to Center Parcs
I can be a bit vocal in my opinions in real life. Admittedly, not yet on the blog. Hold my beer... Camp Bestival. Never been. Why? Well, I can't afford it, essentially. OK, I'm not pleading poverty here (having just come back from Center Parcs that would be an ignorant call) however as a single…
Continue reading ➞ When diverse parenting lacks diversity (Camp Bestival: are you listening?)
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…
There's a lot of single parents about nowadays. I just don't seem to know many! I mean, if the media was to be believed us single mums are out there pushing out those babies like some kind of chain-smoking, dole-claiming, penis-riding takeover of respectable middle-England. To be fair the few single parents I know…
The Sound of Motherhood 