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| Total Unique Visitors: 7183 |
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| Rising above "The Ex" |
| 2008-05-06 09:32:00 |
This is a big toughy for most of us, rising above "The Ex", that is. It’s so tempting to remind them of “what went wrong” or “who was to blame”. The most important thing to remember when communicating with your Ex is, it really doesn’t matter. It’s not relevant(none of it is)and therefore should not ever be discussed. I know what you are thinking, “But they are the ones who bring it up”, “He/She is the one who starts it”, right? As difficult as this may sound, let them! Let them start it, talk about it, put you down,push your buttons ...whatever. The key is biting your tongue and sometimes you have to bite real hard, so hard it hurts. The more you do this, however, the less painful it is. It does get easier and will eventually become second nature. I am not saying ...
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| How to Beat the Childcare Blues |
| 2008-04-25 23:41:00 |
Guilt is the number one ingredient when it comes to leaving the care of our children to someone else. So many worries…”What if my baby becomes attached to them?” is a big concern. I have known more than one instance where friendships were actually severed over this. It is difficult to come home and realize your child doesn’t want to go home with you or says they “love” their babysitter and maybe they even miss them when they are not there. Although it’s a tough pill to swallow, remember it’s better for your children to be somewhere they are they are happy and content...with someone they trust and enjoy! We already suffer enough and so do they, being away from each other so much, so let them be happy! Better for them to be attached to their childcare provider t...
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| What's New with SPIN? |
| 2008-04-20 14:19:00 |
I have feared,since I got sick,that my group was becoming unstable and in 'scientific' terms,disappearance by way of osmosis was just around the corner.We had to start pulling together and fast! So,yesterday we all got together for a Potluck at the Park! It was pretty productive and fun too! (Aside from having my eyeballs exfoliated from the serious wind!) We tackled first, the topic of The Child Care Co-op and I feel that we have solidified how it will structurally work.Sign-ups were handed out and we should begin in full swing as soon as I get the applications back!In essence, here's how it will work... Once the applications are back,a Directory will be compiled and 5 dollars (or hours) worth of 'Funny Money' will be alloted to each parent. The parents can then,use their 'hours' for ...
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| How I manage to be a Single Parent battling Breast Cancer |
| 2008-04-06 19:02:00 |
Sometimes when I lay down with Azalia(my 1 year old daughter), she likes to lay her head on my chest. And she's not very gentle about it...it's more like someone dropping a 5 lb. weight on me as she plops her little head down. I try to guide her in mid-air occasionally so she doesn't land on my porto cath. (the device on my clavicle used to administer chemo...it looks like a button under my skin.) She can be pretty rough! As she climbs on me,she pushes all her weight on to my breasts,the left one has two lumps and they are painful if pushed on. I try not to stop her though when she lays down even if it's uncomfortable or I'm not quite sure even...if it's okay? I don't know how much trauma my breast can safely handle. I look at her though and think to my self "I'm glad you still have your '...
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| The Trauma of Divorce |
| 2007-12-15 03:02:00 |
Many would not link the word ‘trauma’ with ‘divorce’. However, divorce is extremely traumatizing for all involved. I relate divorce to death. Someone you truly love has now been permanently omitted from your life. Someone that you always expected would be there. I mean, no one gets married with the premeditated idea of getting divorced. People get married because they truly believe they will be with that person ‘till death does them part.’ If you are anything like me, you are more concerned with the PTSD symptoms your children may be experiencing than yourself. Some symptoms of PTSD are overly-exaggerated fears (screaming if some one steps up from behind, etc.), anxiety, depression, despair, re-occurring ...
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| Single Parent Statistics |
| 2007-12-15 02:45:00 |
Our mission is to better the lives of Single Parents and their children through a myriad of resources and a network of helpful friends who can always relate!Single Parent Family statistics are alarming!These odds can be beat! Knowing is half the battle, doing is the other half.· One study, which followed 100 children of divorce through 25 years, found that, while the divorced parents may have felt liberated, many of their children suffered emotionally. · Although 20% of all dependent children live in lone-parent families, 70% of young offenders identified by Youth Offending Teams come from lone-parent families.· American studies have shown that boys from one-parent homes were twice as likely as those from two-birth-...
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