“Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.” MaySometimesHardRememberVoiceAcceptingGuiltInternalsFriendlyRemindingMessing Up 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