Topic: Selp-help

• Five great things about being a single mom

  By: Christina | 3 Comments | Feb 9, 12:14am ET

  You get to do things the way you want to — decorate the house, raise the kid with that crazy ‘positive parenting’ sh** your ex couldn’t stand
  Tiptoeing into their bedrooms at night … More

• This solomother needs some advice

  By: Christina | 5 Comments | Dec 5, 9:13pm ET

  There is never enough time. NEVER. I find I’m accomplishing more than ever but am still out of time long before I’ve gotten finished with my tasks. Heaven forbid I should take … More

• I've been a single mother for three years now

  By: Christina | 13 Comments | Sep 22, 9:44pm ET

  Isn’t that strange?
  This year, god willing, will be the year we finally get divorced. Neither of us has any money, so this has to be amicable. I don’t even want to say … More

• Extending your family, single mother style

  By: Christina | No Comments | Jul 12, 9:37pm ET

  This Saturday night, the King of Everything got a rare treat: he got to stay up late.
  Very late.
  We went to the City of Alexandria’s birthday party, a ritual we picked up when … More

• Ask the Sanity Fairy

  By: Christina | 1 Comment | Jan 15, 11:51pm ET

  I’m trying to remember when I first stumbled across Dr. Leah. Can’t quite remember, but I think she found me. Over the year or so we’ve been dropping in on each other, … More

• It's National Singles Week... how will you celebrate yourself?

  By: Christina | 4 Comments | Sep 22, 6:16pm ET

  I often hear from other single mothers that in some ways, they like being single mothers for one very simple reason: they don’t have to defer to anyone else’s ideas on how … More

• What would you do to reclaim your femininity?

  By: Christina | 4 Comments | Jul 20, 11:23pm ET

  There’s an article in the Washington Post today that made me chuckle. A Va Va Voom BOOM! Burlesque is back, baybee. And it’s hetting up significant portions of my home town.
  I took … More

• What I learned at the fair: the difference between girls and boys

  By: Christina | No Comments | May 6, 12:36am ET

  I’d imagine, based on how I was when I was a girl, that dealing with a moody female five year old would involve a lot of conversation, a lot of questions, a … More

• Sanctuary

  By: Christina | 18 Comments | Apr 27, 11:14pm ET

  All my life, I’ve felt this vague unease, this keening wail in the back of my psyche that cried, “I want to go home!” Didn’t matter where I was… in my apartment, … More

• A wealth of info for the single mom: Psychology Today

  By: Christina | 1 Comment | Mar 7, 9:34am ET

  I try very hard not to buy into pop psychology or become an armchair shrink. Life is hard enough without always trying to be your own analyst, you know? But the … More