Dads, we’re wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day

We’re honored that SO many dads – single AND married -  have joined us @Singlemommyhood. If you haven’t checked out these “daddy blogs” yet… please do! Happy Valentine’s Day to these special men in the spirit of what guides us here: friendship. We been following Bruce Sallan for a while now because he’s our dad [...]

Blogging about older kids?

Ever since I first met Dr. Leah, aka The Sanity Fairy™ in 2007 at a conference for single moms, she has been very frank in her disapproval about one specific issue: Bloggers who write so openly about their kids. For the past three years, I’ve blogged about my daughter, including personal anecdotes, photos, and videos. [...]

When should a love interest read your blog?

When do you let someone you’re dating read your blog? A single mom blogger whom we admire a lot — C. from Running Leap – recently wrote to us with this dilemma: “I started seeing someone and he knows that I blog, but I haven’t shared the link with him,” she began. “He knows I [...]

More love on Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day! We’re so blessed to have so many special mom friends to salute on Mother’s Day. Because we wanted to send love to so many moms out there for Mother’s Day, we needed to split this into two posts, in no particular order. If you missed our first Mother’s Day love post, go [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to the moms we love

First, here’s the winner of our $50 gift certificate to Macy’s for our “Does your bra fit?” contest: Anna, the teacher who wrote about trying to teach all day with a hole in her underwire lining (ouch!). Congrats! Also, you still have one more day to enter out book giveaway contests here and here! ~~~ [...]

Can mommy bloggers take things too far?

Today at Single Mom Seeking, Rachel writes about bloggers who’ve turned their sites into infomercials. Hey, the competition is brutal out there. We understand. But we’ve also noticed other trends: mommy bloggers who “use” their cute kids to attract more readers. And the increasing amount of graphic detail some mommy bloggers are eagerly sharing about [...]

Why bad mouthing fathers online is a bad idea

Surely, you’ve noticed this lately online: there has been A LOT of controversial bad-mouthing of fathers. Interestingly, readers’ comments have highlighted the fact that the single parent community needs to protect our kids. We all agree that kids get hurt when one parent bad-mouths the other. We also know that, someday, our kids will go [...]

We’re above those tactics

We realize that a certain blogger wants to bring traffic to his site — don’t we all? It appears that he did this to create controversy and traffic — and to get juicy comments longer than a phrase or two. Apparently, it worked. At Singlemommyhood, we LOVE controversy, too. But we’re all about focusing on [...]

Here’s to the men we love

We started to write this really mushy Valentine’s Day post about finding love — and then we scrapped it. Why? Because we realized that we’re surrounded by love in this great, big blogging world of single parents. Who needs a Valentine when you have blog love? For the record, we know there are some single [...]

A whole new way to think about “online shopping”

One of the perks about being single today is there are so many ways you can meet men — or women. (Single dads, we encourage you to join this discussion, too). The old-fashioned “set up” is a great way to meet people. But how often does that happen nowadays? If you’re new to dating again, [...]