-
How Do You Help the Single Dads in Your Church?
When many people think “single parent” they automatically think of the single mom. While single moms do make up the majority of single parents, single dad households are on the rise. According to research published in 2013 and released by the Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends in the article “The Rise of Single Fathers” minor children living in a home headed by Read more…
-
Question of the week: Should divorced parents be encouraged to spend Thanksgiving together?
A lot of people encourage divorcing parents to come together for holidays, such as Thanksgiving. People think it is in the best interest of the children. The premise is to create the image of one big, happy family. Although that might seem to work for the adults, for the most part, it is not a good idea where children are concerned. Psychologist Carl Read more…
-
How to keep single parents from burning out
Loneliness and stress are probably the largest reasons why single parents burn out. Oh, there’s one more huge contributor to burnout among single parents: attending church when they already feel lonely and stressed. Why does attending church aid burn out? After all, isn’t coming to church supposed to help us worship God and commune with other believers? Isn’t it a place where Read more…
-
How will you handle Father’s Day and the child of divorce?
“Can you believe he didn’t even come to his own granddaughter’s graduation?” With fire in her eyes my friend continued with, “He didn’t even bother to call or send a card. What’s wrong with a man like that?” This isn’t the first conversation we have had about her dad. As a grown woman what she really wants to know is, Why didn’t my Read more…
-
Question of the week: Why do you talk so much about the single moms?
It’s true that a lot of posts we do on this site are about single moms. The simple reason is that a majority of single parents are single moms. Because of this, most of my personal experience is with single moms. However, there are some great single dads in our society as well. More and more single dads are stepping up and either helping raise Read more…
- Uncategorized 23
- Divorce Issues 336
- Discipline 120
- Brain Research 78
- Single Parents 277
- Whirlwind Kids 14
- Quotes 8
- Accept the Challenge 196
- Disasters 17
- Holidays 70
- Conferences 12
- Summer 22
- Question of the week 97
- School Issues 42
- Preschool 19
- Stress 108
- Military 6
- Emotions 128
- Co-parenting 48
- Guest bloggers 5
- Research 49
- Step and blended families 65
- Visitation 35
- Trauma 53
- Grandparents 60
- Grief 8
- Attracting families 40
- Modern families 43
- Abuse and Unsafe situations 11
- Bringing in meals 0
- #Divorcedmoms 2
- #Divorceddads 3
- Death of a marriage 3
- KidMin 20
- FamMin 6
- StuMin 2
- Family Ministers 21
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013