Single Parenting Advice please.
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Topic: Single Parenting Advice please.
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Single Parenting Advice please.
Date Posted: 26 December 2007 at 6:36pm
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As most of you know i'm about to become a single mum for most of next year in 11 days, and thruth be told i'm not looking forward to it. Now I want all the advice you single mums can give me. I have already had 2 weeks of practice (when he went to selection board and when he went away for a week) but very soon it is going to be for weeks at a time. Both my boys go into fulltime daycare in February when I go back to uni but when we come home for the day it is just us. My in-laws have offered to help out every now and then (but i'm already guessing it will be just taking Andrew for the night not Josh), and I have friends that have offered to help me as well. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 26 December 2007 at 7:24pm
take all the help you can get all offers even if its for a few hours make time for your self and take it day by day good luck hun if i can do so can u ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 26 December 2007 at 7:29pm
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Ooo you can defintely do it girl!!! Its not as hard as you imagine it to be really, probably the hardest thing you way find is not having a second pair of hands, therefore having to do everything yourself and I would say missing your DH. All it takes as good planning, not necessarly (sp?) being super organised but at least having a plan of action for each day is a great start. Power to you fellow single parent, may the force be with you......LMAO!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 26 December 2007 at 8:16pm
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Although I'm not a single mum now I have been twice before once with one child and once with two , it's not that bad, and because you are going back to uni and the boys will be in care life will prob be hectic, have you got a crock pot if so use it!! by things that you can put on like chicken, corn beef etc anything really and put it on in the morning and it will be ready when you get home ------------- 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 December 2007 at 7:28am
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Remember to eat Becks!!
Otherwise it really isn't that bad. Oh, actually, the lack of adult company almost drove me round the bend - so get some friends round to hang with you every now and again. Bugger the kids - you need babysitting 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 27 December 2007 at 7:27pm
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LOL Nikki, I totally agree! Adult company is a MUST as it can get rather lonely, althou I find OB gives me my adult fix lol ------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 December 2007 at 8:23pm
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Dh said he would send our neighbour over to check on me (to make sure I wasn't smoking like a chimney and drinking wine like a fish But I am going to cook up some meals and put them into the freezer for us so when I get that I can't be arsed cooking feeling I can just pull something out of the freezer rather than take the kids down the road to the fish and chip shop or stop off on the way home for daycare. I'm pretty sure for the first 6 weeks I will be on here a lot but once uni starts I think i'll have my mind on something else. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |