SAMMY Scholarship - Single Parents
Inspire your students to strive for their highest goals. Encourage them to continue their education. Help them seek opportunities to make those dreams possible. Like all parents, single parents want their children to "achieve more." We are ... [... more]
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Raising a Child Alone - Divorce - Single Parents
Being a single parent is never easy. Parents find themselves raising a child alone due to various circumstances including divorce, abandonment, death, and by choice - whether through a single mother birth or by adoption. Each situation has its ... [... more]
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Keeping Children Out of Divorce - Single Parents
In most cases, divorce is never "simple." It can be a highly traumatic event for all involved. Especially when children are involved, an amicable divorce should always be attempted; however, this is simply not always possible. I am always ... [... more]
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The Guilt Factor - How do Single Parents Afford Time for ...
As a single parent, you know the drill: rush through the morning with a quickie breakfast and hopefully matched socks, drop the kid(s) off at daycare or school, make it to the job - just in time, pick the kids up on the way home, fix dinner, go ... [... more]
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Free to Be You and Me - Single Parents
Marlo Thomas originally got the idea for the book, "Free to Be You and Me" when she was reading children's books and found that most of the main characters were fairly "perfect." Whether she felt that this was too stressful of a role [... more]
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Budget Halloween Decorations - Single Parents
Halloween is one of my favorite "holidays" and decorating is definitely a part of celebrating. Tight budgets, however, can put a damper on decorating and celebrating. I have found that homemade decorations can be just as exciting as store- [... more]
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Parenting for Independence - Single Parents
There are many strategies that single parents - or any parents - can use to raise independent children. Independence is a process that begins shortly after birth. Children naturally quest for independence at a very early age. Struggling to sit ... [... more]
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Sex Education: Where to Start - Single Parents
Sex is never an easy topic to discuss with your children and often the most difficult decision can be deciding when is the appropriate age and what is the appropriate subject with which to start. Fortunately, starting sex education isn't as hard ... [... more]
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Discussing Sexuality, Part 3: How you do NOT want the ...
Have you seen the Lifetime movie, "The Truth About Jane"? Sexuality is not a "phase" or a something you grow out of. I am sure that you have all heard of Matthew Sheppard; what a horrible death, yet it brought nationwide attention to [... more]
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Child Support Nonpayment Amnesty: A Good Idea? - Single ...
In the state of South Carolina, when a noncustodial parent (NCP) does not pay child support as ordered by the family court, the following are possible consequences: However, these courses of action are only followed on an automatic basis IF the ... [... more]
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The Healthiest Meals on Earth - Single Parents
Oscar Franco, a Colombian scientist interested in methods for improving the health of humans, suggested in 2004 that perhaps medicines were not the only way to a healthy heart and vascular system. He suggested that a "polymeal" - "an [... more]
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Learning to Let Go - Single Parents
The bond between parent and child is incredibly powerful. We often hear parents express that they would "fight a grizzly bear" for their child. Parents often tell their children that there is nothing they can do to lose the love that they feel . [... more]
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