single parents

I'm exhausted 😩! I've recently was granted full time custody of my children and my life was flipped upside down. I have two young boys full of energy(my oldest🧩 ),balancing work, childcare, cleaning, cooking, sleep, has been a marathon. Im surviving off of triple espresso TID or Q4hrs PRN(for...

Fulltime-single dad here. I have two sweet girls...4 year old and 7 year old. For years I've been brushing their long hair with a part to the side. A pony tail, or pig tails, are about as creative as I can get. Does anyone know where I can go to learn how to do braids, buns, or creative...

Two months ago I decided to leave my partner of 9 years. We have two kids together (5 and 2.5), and fortunately they seem to be handling it well all things considered (e.g., good reports from daycare/kindergarten, no major regressions, generally the same demeanour as before). My partner did not...

Hi, I need to interview a single parent who is working full time who has a child under 18 years old. I was directed to this sub to help me find someone to interview. I have a list of 10 questions with multiple parts. If you're interested, please DM me and I will send you the questions! It would...

My daughter is 3 years old and we have had very little contact with paternal family. Lately I have initiated more contact and offering to have more meet ups. I recently found out the father’s sister (daughter’s bio aunt) hasn’t told her children that he has a child - the reason being we...

Background info: So I have my toddler full time for 90+ percent of a given month (mom not in the picture). A weekend or 3-5 days out of the month she stays with her grandparents (my parents) who are about 2 hours away. I have a group of extended family that we were connected while growing up. I...

29 f with 2 boys :) I've tried dating, and man it never seems to work well. My last relationship seemed great, but halfway through I found it even 30 year old men still are afraid of commitment 🤦‍♀️ At this point I look forward to just laying in bed alone to watch and do whatever I want to...

I’m currently in the middle of a divorce (with seemingly no end in sight) and I’m beginning to weigh my living situation options. I live in a HCOL area and I make a good salary, but I will be paying both alimony and child support. Is it a terrible idea to get a one bedroom apartment with my...

Hey Parents & family ....im 30f & I have a 13 yr old son.....Its always been just us 2 and thats fine of course ...HOWEVER some times I need some adult time with a little judgement free condo....We live in California & most ppl out here are users and just not genuine ppl.However I don't want to...

Y’all, how?! How the hell do you keep your shit together when you are beyond exhausted? Daycare’s closed for school holidays so I’m trying to work from home with my 7mo… who’s teething. Doing around 4hours overtime every day to get my work done because of all the interruptions. We’re up every...

Single mom 10-year-old daughter we own a horse we rescued and it cost 3000 for training board and everything to keep him currently Learning a lot from the program I’m in with him from one of the best trainers The barn itself isn’t the friendliest and after being there for 6 months now still...

I just wanna know do any other single moms raising boys alone ,ever worry about like how is a woman supposed to raise a man. when I don’t know shit about what it’s like to be a man, let alone how to raise one.. I feel so bad for my son he didn’t ask to be here. I feel helpless and he’s only 3...

Hey guys, single dad here to a 4 year old and in need of some serious help My ex and I are on a trial custody, for the next 6 months, we’re on month one and I’m noticing that my kid has had an attitude shift, constantly miserable yelling hitting spitting kicking just not listening in general...

I currently have a 3 year old and 7 week old baby. I’m ready to take the steps to split from my partner but I don’t know where to start. I’m worried financially, I have a great support system from my family however I don’t want to rely on them in anyway. I want to prove I can do it on my own to...

To start off recently i have been crying every night, i don’t know what to do with myself. Iv been a single mother for 10 years now to my son Jade. His father and I were never married and to be honest I never really knew him at all. It was a dumb 19 year old me thing to do. I gave birth and...

There is a single mom (not by choice) at our playgroup and we see how hard she works every day to make her child the happy, well-adjusted kid they are. Our playgroup is getting together in a big group this weekend for some non-mother’s day related fun, and I’m tempted to leave an anonymous card...

Cross-posted to another sub last night. A couple of answers said I should call CPS. Wanna make sure this is the right thing to do since I'm not a parent so any advice from parents here would be greatly appreciated! My childhood best friend of 15+ years is a single mom of two kids under 4 y/o...

It can be so easy to beat myself up about all of the things I need to do better as a single mom, but today I feel proud of myself. I'm a full-time content creator and today I had to upload a morning routine video that was sponsored by a productivity daily planner and after I posted it I watched...

My ex has a page for our daughter (6 years old) I’ve already had the judge confront her about having a cup with wine in it and posting our child with it like she’s drinking. (Don’t know how she wasn’t held in contempt)… She’s said in text on Talking parents that she WONT give me the password...

A little background: my exH and I have been divorced since March 2017, but he left in September of 2016. A nasty custody battle ensued. He lied about my ability to parent and claimed my anxiety made me unfit to parent. Anyway, exH currently lives about 2k miles away. Back in January of last year...