No tricks: Halloween’s a treat

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays. Do you feel the same way? You don’t have the pressure of buying gifts or cooking elaborate meals. There’s far less co-parenting stress. You just decorate, dress up, and have fun with your kids. Dr. Leah doles out LOTS of candy every year. Halloween is a huge party [...]

Should this single mom relocate?

It’s a daily struggle for all of us: striking just the right balance between your kids, career, and a private life. So, when this single mom contacted us via Facebook with this quandary, we rushed to share her concerns with you. We’re confident that your advice will help her sort out her options — and [...]

Where can single moms — and dads — have sex?

We got just a joint email from a single mom and dad who are dating. Their frank description of their struggles to find time and space for intimacy reminded us that getting a life (we mean having sex) as single parents gets complicated. Here’s what we found out: “We’re both recently divorced. We live with [...]

Is my kid fated to make poor relationship choices?

We’ve chatted candidly with you about lots of relationship concerns, from surviving a pregnancy break-up to knowing if you’re (finally) ready for sex. You remind us every day that your focus — no matter what — remains on what’s best for your kids. When you’ve told us that you *wonder* about your kids, we know [...]

Do your parents help you out?

We’re always amazed by your resiliency and boundlessly energetic spirit. Your successful efforts to juggle both kid and career responsibilities truly do inspire. We know it isn’t easy. Many of you chimed in to tell us that help for you comes in the form of house sharing with your parents. Often this is the only [...]

Should the kids stay? And you move out?

Having raised our kids as solo parents, we’re often in awe of the creative ways that many divorced couples figure out how to co-parent together. So, when we tuned into this news story on NPR about how divorce affects kids, we thought about our own co-parenting readers here at Singlemommyhood. “When parents get divorced, the [...]

My kid returns home dirty. Help!

Many parents tell us about a similar dilemma: after a weekend with the ex, your kids come home very differently from how they left. You’ve shared tales of lost shoes, mismatched clothes, never brushed teeth, hopelessly tangled hair — and just downright smelly kids leave us shaking our heads. Do you also share this co-parenting [...]

Single parent vacation, anyone?

We’re curious to know what you’ve been up to during the holidays: Did you take a long car trip with your kids to visit family? Did you stay home and entertain? (And then stay up late washing the dishes!) As the holiday weekend winds down, we know that many of you are asking, “Hey, wasn’t [...]

Thanksgiving without your kids?

Because both Dr. Leah and I have sole custody of our kids, our Thanksgiving Day celebrations have always included our kids. For those of you who have shared custody — with alternating holidays — however, this day might find you without your kids. So, we’ve been wondering lately: what if we were NOT able to [...]

How did you tell your kids you were getting divorced?

Dr. Leah, aka the Sanity Fairy, has worked hard to turn me into a Mad Men fan– and she might have succeeded! Did the finale of Mad Men this week – in which Don and Betty told their kids that Dad was moving out– also make you reach for the Kleenex? Although neither parent used [...]

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