Questions tagged [single-parent]
Questions regarding a household where there is only one parent present, regardless of the circumstance of the other parent's absence.
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How to comfort my dad after telling him that I don't like to do anything with him?
I live with my dad and my grandmother. I don't live with my mother because several times she was caught doing drugs around my step sister. They split up when I was 6 months old.
My dad and I don't ...
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Why does my daughter smile and start to laugh at me when I am noticeably really angry at her?
My daughter is 11 years old and has been diagnosed with high functioning austism along with sensory processing disorder. I am a single father and have raised her alone since she was two years old. We ...
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How can a dad be both a mother and father
I'm a dad and I've unexpectedly found myself raising my son effectively alone.
I'm in an atypical single-parent situation, but more general single-dad advice would probably be better for other ...
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For the benefit of the child: what's better - no father or bad father?
What's best/better for the child in the long/short run - to have no father in his life or to have a "no-good" father in his life?
And by "no-good" I mean - mentally and financially unstable, ...
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I think my 11 month old is afraid of his dad
I will try to make this short... Every time my son's dad shows his face, my son cries himself to sleep. His dad tries to console him but it never works. It always gets to the point of his dad feeling ...
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How can a father teach his girl child about menstruation?
Usually in a home, the mother will teach her daughter about menstrual periods, but consider this following situation:
In my neighbor's home the father takes care of his daughter (at present the child'...
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How can an older brother fill the parenting void of an absent father?
I'm not a parent. My father has recently left and a big void of fatherly like stuff has been left. I am that older son who moved back in and is attempting to help out the family. So naturally, the ...
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How to help children cope with a parent's suicide?
I've asked another question here:
How to handle disclosing a parent's suicide to friends and their parents
I've noticed that this question here:
What are some strategies for helping children ...
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Dating as a single parent - When do you introduce your kid?
As a relatively newly single parent I have been contemplating the idea of when I am dating someone, when to introduce them to my child (3 year old). Currently I have just kept those lives separate as ...
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Why would a primary-schooler want to kill himself?
My nine year old nephew told his (single) mother tonight that he wants to kill himself. What would prompt that?
backstory:
His father is ... upstate ... for a little while longer, and they do have ...
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How to deal with a 3-year-old very high energy child as a single mom?
I have a 3-year-old who just loves to push my buttons. I'm a single mom who has him every night, but while I work he goes to his father. His dad says he tried to follow the same discipline and naps ...
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How can a Single Father prevent his child from becoming addicted to video games?
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My neighbor faces the tough situation that his 7 year old boy has started to play video games and he wonders how to stop him from getting addicted to them. Sadly, his wife is no more.. he's ...
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My 16-year-old daughter has new personal items she hides - how can I make her to be more open?
I am a single mother of one 16-year-old daughter and I am very attentive to how my daughter develops as a person. We both work on it with constructive approaches.
But from time to time I discover in ...
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How can a parent get help with the expense of a child?
How can a parent get help with the expense of a child?
I'm not sure how I, as a single parent, am going to be able to cope when the child is born.
I am Irish and from Dublin.
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Advice on dating when I have children
I have 2 young girls (4 and 1 1/2), and am single. I have recently returned to the dating scene. I like guys and have brought a number home, that have slept over.
I'm worried that the girls, seeing ...
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5yr old son becomes much more disobedient in public vs. in private
I'm a single mom and lost my partner when my son was 6 months old. My son is going to be 5 in June and most of the time when we are alone he is a very well behaved boy.
The moment we are in a crowd ...
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How do I get my 17-year-old under control when I raise him alone and his behavior is unacceptable?
My husband passed away 9 years ago. My 17-year-old son is currently in high school. I also have a 25-year-old daughter, who doesn't live with us but visits us over the weekend. I'm the one who is ...
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How do I explain to my five year old daughter that I am seeing someone?
My daughters father and I broke up 2 years ago. I am now dating a wonderful man who I am very happy with, but I am not sure how to explain this to my five year old daughter. She is very good friends ...
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Should I continue to allow my ex extra visits with his daughter when he is so unhelpful to me?
I am a single parent (no family around to help) and I have been struggling to raise my daughter alone. I'm also having problems with my ex.
Holding down a job is difficult due to constantly calling ...
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How can I stop my 5-year-old's violent tantrums?
I am a single mom to a very good 5-year-old little boy ... 90% of the time. About once a week, give or take, he has a meltdown and becomes violent (hitting, scratching, biting, throwing things, etc.). ...
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How and when to tell my 5-year-old son that his "daddy" is gone?
I am a single mom again (as of a week ago) of a 5- (almost 6-) year-old, who is in kindergarten.
My son's biological dad and I were together 5 years but we lived apart by the time I got pregnant. He ...
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How can I become part of my daughter's life again?
I have a 4 year old daughter who's life I have been in and out of (more out than in since we're being honest). I have royally screwed things up with her mother who is now married. I have a crippling ...
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My 14-year-old is refusing to attend any schooling, even online
I have a 14-year-old daughter who has suffered from mental health issues since puberty. She has been through 4 middle schools and several residential behavior programs. I got her enrolled in an online ...
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What can my girlfriend do for her daughter?
OK, I am completely unsure as to where I should ask this obscure question, but there is a quite a bit of questions to help with my girlfriend's current situation.
OK, let me start of by saying that I ...
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Do I move my son to a new school?
I am the single dad of a wonderful son. We have recently moved to a new house only a few miles away from where we previously lived, but it is in another school zone. So I have been debating moving him ...
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Is 5 hours too long of a drive for single parent with 2 year-old?
I'd like to take my 2yo son on a 5h road trip - but the mother is against this idea. I have to admit - it does seem daunting - but would like to try.
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My daughter asked if I will remarry
So, I'm a single father with full custody of my seven year old daughter and aside from Skype calls her mother is not in the picture.
Today my daughter asked me quite seriously if I plan on remarrying.
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My 13 year old son is skipping school and I'm not sure how to proceed
I am a single mother, my son's father is not in the picture. My son doesn't want to go to school and is being very difficult. He says he is going, but when I get home the school tells he was not in ...
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How to breastfeed exclusively in a joint custody situation
I have a friend who is single and finds herself pregnant unexpectedly. She and the father have no relationship at this point and don’t plan to, other than co-parenting, from separate households. It ...
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What if the father of my children has not seen or talked to his kids in over a year?
My kids father had nothing to do with my son for the first year and a half that he was born then after that he was in his life until he was 9 years old. Then my girls were around him when they were ...
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How can I ensure that my daughter is not excessively attached to me?
I have been a single father to my two children- a sixteen year old girl and a fourteen year old boy- ever since my wife separated from me eight years ago and married another man. I have had extremely ...
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depression is affecting my parenting, work and I'd like to move city
I'm a single parent, two kids 14 & 12. no family (I'm a single child orphan, from my late teens) to help with support. I get no help (financial or otherwise) from my former partner who was removed ...
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My 11-year-old hates writing as do I. How to provide help to him writing a school essay without forcing him to do what he doesn't want to?
I raise my 11-year-old son by myself. He needs to write a small essay about his first day at school and I don't even know how to help him. He hates writing and is in love with math, so do I. I don't ...
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Single Working Mom Wishes to Homeschool Child
I'm 14 weeks pregnant and I am seriously considering homeschooling for my child.
How can I learn more about homeschooling in general, and specifically for single moms who have to work? Are any of you ...
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How to help my 9-year-old daughter with an eating disorder (comfort eating)?
I am divorced and have custody of my children. I noticed that my 9-year-old daughter is eating much more food than she usually does and she has gained so much weight. She eats more during meals and in ...
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Parenting with a formerly abused partner?
I'm not quite sure if this is the right venue for my question but I hope ya'll tolerate it.
My wife grew up in a single family home most of her life with an abusive stepfather the rest of the time.. ...
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4 year old seems suddenly uninterested in me
I have been separated from my childrens' father for nearly two years. I have custody of our two children, and he lives in a different city than us. Although it is a long haul for him to get to us, he ...
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Should i be taking care of my siblings all the time?
I am 13 years old and my dad tells me to take care of my siblings all the time.
He makes me watch them, make their food, play with them every time, dress them up and even makes me go check on them ...
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Should I stop the visits of my infant's in-and-out father?
My son is nine months old and his father has seen him 10 times and recently has been cancelling his visits. We do not have custody in place but there is child support.
I'm not sure if I should just ...
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How to deal with tantrums in my 5-year-old?
My 5-year-old can't seem to shake off the temper tantrums! Probably because while trying to "fix" it, I've unintentionally given him attention for it. I've gotten to the point of enough. I've done the ...
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What to do about 6.5-year-old grandson out of control?
About 1 1/2 years ago my grandson started acting out. It has now become so bad and we need to get him under control.
First off I will say that my grandson lives with his mother as his mother and ...
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Kid genius help
I am the legal guardian of a kid, after his/her parents were found incapable of taking care of him.
Okay from day 1, I saw that he/she couldnt make any friends and knew things normall a 6 year old ...
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Separation between me and my stepson
I have a six-year-old stepson. Today, his parents sued me in order to take their son back.
How do I explain the situation to him? Note that I adopted him at age 3, so he probably does not remember ...
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How to keep myself safe (during pregnancy) from abusive ex-boyfriend [closed]
I am now 20 weeks pregnant and I don't know what to do to keep this baby safe from an abusive ex that thinks I lost it.
He is extremely mentally unstable and has threatened both of our lives if I ...
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How to talk to my 8-year-old daughter about her absent father?
My 8-year-old daughter hasn’t seen her father since she was 5 months old. It was an mentally and physically abusive relationship, so we moved to a different province and he hasn’t attempted to see her ...
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How to teach my 7-year-old daughter to not be so melodramatic when dealing with bullying and any stressful situation?
I am a single dad with a 7-year-old daughter. Her mum disappeared when she was 2. She had borderline personality disorder. My daughter has some behaviour in common with BPD such as 'black and white' ...
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What are things to consider when moving yourself and kids closer to your girlfriend?
I’m beginning to think about moving closer to my girlfriend to spend more time with her. We’ve known each other for around 7 months now and things are going great! We are both good at communicating in ...
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How to be a good Single Mom with a large family and dealing with ADHD
I am recently divorced and have full custody of our six children. My husband was violent with the children and I'm not sure how to discipline them without using violence. My children range in age from ...
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How to help mom deal with disrespectful and uncooperative sister?
I am a 23-year old college senior that temporarily returned from college during quarantine. Due to logistical necessity, since my brother moved into my former room when I left, I've been sleeping on ...
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Effects of multiple new relationships (and the single parent) upon children
Background.
My husband died 10 years ago. My children were aged 9, 3 and 1 at the time. I was always (and still am) probably too extreme in my stance on relationships with men, since my husband's ...
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