Question of the week: Where can I find Christmas and holiday articles for single parents?

Sometimes it is good to be able to pass a word of encouragement to a struggling single parent. Following are some articles that can be found on the DivorceCare Surviving the Holidays website. Feel free to print these, send them via Facebook, Twitter or email to the single parents in your church or to any single parent you know. These articles are all free and available year round.

• Celebrating Christmas in the Single Parent Home

• Survival Tips for Handling the Holidays

• The Wind Chime that Changed Christmas (This is my personal story about my children and I the first year we set out to decorate a Christmas tree as a single parent family.

• Give It All to Jesus, Even Those We Love

• Reasons Why Children Get Angry During the Holidays, and How You Can Help

• Helping Children of Divorce Through the Holidays

For single parents who have lost a spouse to death helpful tools can be found on the GriefShare Surviving the Holidays site.

For church leaders and children’s ministers

Here are some articles on this blog that might be helpful to read and share with others.

• Part One: Reasons we do what we do at Christmas and all year long

• Part Two: Reasons we do what we do at Christmas and all year long

• Why we shouldn’t try and “happy up” children who are hurting at Christmas

• Learn the 3 S’s of Christmas and how they trigger unexpected emotions for kids of divorce

• How you can encourage single parents to attend church during the holidays? 

• Christmas and the emotions of a child of divorce

• How do I help the child of divorce who is all about “gimme, gimme, gimme” at Christmas?

• Children of divorce and the holidays: little people at the big people’s table

• The funny side of single parenting during Christmas holidays