I am a single dad. When I was in to talk to my sons teacher yesterday, and explain why he would not be in school on Friday, she asked me about Mother’s day. She knows I’m a single dad, and wanted to know if I wanted my son to make a Father’s day card instead when they do their card project this week. I told her It was up to him. She also said that some of the kids, made Mothers Day cards, for their dads when there was mom in the household. I was a bit shocked, but it does make sense. So what is everyone else’s thoughts about it? Do any single Dads out there get mother’s day cards from their kids? How about single Moms that get father’s day cards? My son moved in last year just before father’s day. He made me a cute card out of paper and crayons, and I still have it. Also how many of the single parents take the kids out card shopping? Or do you send them with a friend or family member? I did that for Xmas gifts, but that’s it. Any input would be great! Thanks
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We went on holiday for a week and my son (19 mos) had his routine totally messed up. I’m not strict with it, he generally goes to bed at 7pm but it can be anything as late as 8.30pm occasionally. But on holiday it went to after midnight, he just wouldn’t sleep any earlier and I relaxed a bit as I wanted him to enjoy himself too and didn’t want to leave him crying in an unfamiliar room. But now I really do need to get him back to something like he was before – I work in the evenings (studying a degree from home, and some evenings I do bar work), and I can’t lose my degree or my job for my son’s sake, so I might have to be cruel to be kind. Last night I had work and I ended up having to let him cry himself to sleep with me listening through the monitor as I was an hour and a half late and would have lost my job if I’d been much later as they were understaffed. I felt awful but he was ok. (By the way I’m a single parent so nobody to share the workload – my dad is here with him when I go to work but only on the condition that he’s asleep and he doesn’t need to do anything). He fell asleep much quicker than I thought he would. Now, one side of me is telling me I should do that every night until he’s back to normal, because if I keep him up as late as he wants to be I’m just going to get nowhere and the quicker I nip it in the bud the easier it’ll be for him. But I feel dreadful. Does anybody have any advice? How did you solve the problem after holidays?
And please don’t give me the whole "You should care more about your child than getting personal time" crap. I do. Just understand that if I lose my degree, I can’t give my son a good future, and if I lose my job, I can’t support him right now.
I have a 16month old son who I am raising alone with the help of my parents due to abandonment by the father. For his own "up-bringing" reasons, age, and immaturity cannot handle this task. I have always felt an immense amount of pain knowing someday my son will ask for him, and i in return have nothing prepared to say. Anyway, i’m in nursing school and volunteered at an elementary clinic. As i looked through the contacts, i was surprised to see so many children with only the mother as contact, and sometimes even only a father. Half of these children lived in a single home, or with a step father, whom they now call dad. I was expecting to see depressed, sad, children. How affected are children by not having a father or mother ? Or dealing with a step-parent. I myself am fortunate to have both, but now i want to know what’s it like for those who were not raised with a father or mother. Did it make you stronger? insecure? How did your mother/father explain this to you as a child. thanks. i have been stressing so much and been depressed over this for so long, sometimes even blaming myself. But now i see that i am not alone!
I am 16 years old and I have no job currently but I am getting one this week… it is half way through summer holidays and at first I was just going to drive my dads car cause insurance alone for me is 3800$ year because my dad is a single parent. But going into grade 11 I want to drive a car and I seen a beater for about 500$ volkswagen still running good, but Is it true that you need to put down a quarter or half of the insurance to start off? What do you think I should do about any of this ….. thanks
I hear so much of the time about how so-and-so is a single mom and it’s great that she’s strong and independent and trying to do two things at the same time. What about single dads?
Considering that the majority of the time the women get sole custody of the kids at first initially, where is the love for single dads who have to get the kids away from bad mothers?
I’m not a single dad myself lol. I’m 19 and go to college, but it just had me wondering. Single dads should get more praise in society…if they’re doing what’s right as a father.
