“No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.” NeedsChildrenMatterParentDecisionResultsFateAdultsJust OneAgain And AgainConfiguration Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World
“Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.” MindChildrenKidsReadingSpeakSoundPsychologyLike YouPicksPercentHundredScriptsCarefulTunesBroadsBe CarefulShrinksResentPsychoSlippingPseudoChild Psychology Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World
“Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.” GivingFeelsMayChildrenKidsParentTroubleFiguresParticularDisciplineAuthorityGuiltMaintainingDeprivedRequestUnreasonableSingle ParentAuthority Figures Author:Marge M. Kennedy
“Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.” KnowsMindBelieveChildrenParentMiracleWitnessDeities Author:Marge M. Kennedy