On this blog I generally talk about the foibles of parenting committed by me. But, from time to time I address the plight of single parenting, having become a single parent myself.
In this post and this post I attempted to amusingly point out my new perspective on single parenting after being married for almost thirty years.
Yes, you have a whole different perspective on single parenting when you are one than when you know one (or several), when you’ve actually lived it instead of just observed it.
Married people tend to have sympathy for single parents because they know how tough a task parenting can be, even with a mom and dad in the home. But they can’t really understand some of the inner turmoil you face as a single parent.
Single parents have to address the same parenting issues as married parents, but from the disadvantage of having less resources than married parents enjoy (and I don’t mean financial disadvantages, though being a single-income family can certainly be a disadvantage). Single parents don’t have the emotional, psychological, and spiritual resources that a married couple can provide to one another and, thence, their children.
Comedienne Gilda Radner was one of the original cast members of the late night NBC comedy television show, Saturday Night Live. She created several recurring characters including one by the name of Roseanne Roseannadanna, who appeared in the “Weekend Update” news segments of the early seasons of Saturday Night Live.
We were in the newly remodeled McDonald’s restaurant recently. The toddlers were playing in the indoor playground area. I was sitting at a table watching them.
In this post I list some of the challenges that I have encountered in recent months as a single parent who was formerly married for almost thirty years.
I’m not the man I used to be!
Poppy's New Adventure 