“I’m done with you.” These, the parting words of a mother to her 15 year old daughter as she dropped the child off at a Nebraska hospital.
A 16-year old tried to abandon herself and her baby. How does that work, exactly? She herself is a minor child with a minor child. Who makes the determination […]
I’ve been pondering this one for a while. New York Times has an article about it. An eight year old boy shot and killed his father and a boarder, his father’s friend. Deliberately. One victim was found outside the house. One was found inside–upstairs, in a bedroom.
I have no answers. Seems there’s a surfeit of […]
“Mama, what does ‘Rated R’ mean?” he asked me last night, his blue eyes staring solemnly up into my brown ones. I was busy in the kitchen, putting away dishes, cleaning up dinner, finding the counter under an avalanche of cooking inspiration.
“Oh, it means there’s violence, bad language, and sex. It means it’s a movie […]
What is happiness to you, single mother?
There’s a fascinating book coming out in 2009 — The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin has spent some time examining happiness, and the pursuit of, from every which way, and might have some suggestions on how to achieve it. I know that personally, I am happiness when I am in the […]
I picked up a sweet little article about dating and the single mother this morning.
Seems that sometimes, a kid’s got to do what a kid’s got to do. One such vigilant child of a single mother took it upon herself to vet her mother’s online dating prospects… without her mother’s knowledge. I had […]
I don’t know how to manage an older child’s anger. I haven’t been there yet. But I have a hot-headed five year old full of opinions and attitude, and I worry about him. He’s an exuberant child. He’s got imagination spilling out of him in hot lava gobs of paleontology and space travel and good […]
Does the number ‘529′ mean anything to you? If you have kids who might go to college, it should ring a bell. The 529 Plan is a “tax-advantaged investment vehicle” (read: plan to encourage folks to save by giving a tax break or advantage for using the plan) that, for the intent and purpose of […]
I’ve been thinking about this story all day, wondering if I dared say anything about it here. She was a mother of two, in desperate mental straights. She did this horrible thing to her children, and then herself. Amazingly, her neighbors knew something was happening, and summoned the police who, forcing their way into the […]
It was wonderful to get away, even though I was pretty well tethered to work with the Blackberry and the cottage’s wireless connection. We read books. We cooked food and ate out. We swam in the ocean and walked the Boardwalk. We played arcade games and made gigantic bubbles in the backyard.
And every time we […]
Camp Weary Parent has been in full swing all summer, but the fearless leaders over at Weary Parent are marching gamely on. Charlene is playing her own game of Survivor and counting down to school (38 days!), while Christine is wondering when her teens decided she was uncool…
Here at SoloMother, the summer seems to be […]
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