Are You a New Single Parent? Here's What to do

The key to successful single parenting is being sensitive to what your children need. To boil it all down, they need to be listened to, to be understood, and to be valued.

They need a parent who will take time to show them, teach them, help them, and nurture them.

They need to be made a priority even when it is inconvenient.

Making Time for Your Children
Realize that it is important to make time for your children and to view it as a matter of priority. Your children will quickly perceive and appreciate this.

Until a few years ago parenting wasn't even a word we use. Now it is treated as a science, art or at least a set of sophisticated method or technique. However, it is none of these. It is not a science. It is not an art. And, it is not a sophisticated method or technique.

The Definition of Parenting
Parenting is simply the raising of a child by its parents with the child's needs being uppermost in thought and action. Besides meeting their basic survival needs, all children need a long-term commitment of quantity time rather than the quick fixes of quality time.

Rather than being concerned about techniques, the most important thing for a single parent is always to be there for your children when they need you. While discipline is equally as important as love, it is essential you let your children see your human side.

Even though you are busy, it should be clear that you enjoy playing with them when they are young. And, teaching them, through your relationship, to evolve to best meet their needs as they progress through the developmental cycle and become adults.

The time you spend with your children passes fast. It’s like playing a tape that can’t be rewound. So enjoy these precious moments while they last.  

The more you are there for your children, the longer they will be there for you. What they need it not just your experience, it’s mainly your attention. Ability is not the key, its availability.

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