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Son growing up without a father11/9/2023 ![]() Healthy and centered so you can do double-duty for your child. If you find yourself in this position, by choice or by fate, do whatever is necessary to keep yourself You don't need me to tell you how hard it is. Can a single parent raise great kids? Of course! But Risk factor for your kids is less that they don't have a dad than that Mom is so overwhelmed. Parenting is hard enough single parenting will earn you angel wings. It's hard because Mom is single parenting. Single parenting is part of the risk factor. ![]() Negativity is permanently disabling to the child. The child may grieve the loss of the parent, but that grief can heal with enough support from the remaining parent, whereas the constant When a parent treats a child in a harsh or critical way, it is worse for the child than if that parental figure leaves, as long as the remaining parent Negative presence is worse than no presence. Perspective, keeping your own cup full so you can remain generous with your child - all of this is more important than whether your child has one Regulating your own emotions, accepting your child's emotions, renouncing punishment in favor of empathic limit-setting, seeing things from your child's What children need to thrive is unconditional love. If you're a mom raising kids without a Dad, you'll want to know that: 1. But as with all loss, the child is changed forever, and the emotional workīottom line: Kids can survive anything, and heal, if they have a committed parent there to help them heal their emotions. Suffering alone without someone to help you work through the experience. Of a parent? Of course, with enough love and support from the remaining parent (or parent figure.) Trauma doesn't come from the experience, but from That parent leaves the child, whether by choice or by fate, there will be a loss that will stay with the child forever. If that parent is harsh, the ripples will be negative. ![]() With the child, the effect will have positive ripples for the rest of that child's life. If that parent is loving, supportive, and positively engaged There is no denying that fathers ARE important, in the same way every parent is important. ![]() So if Father's Day touches a nerve with you, this post is for you. Understandably, they bristle when I say that fathers are important. These moms are working hard to give their children everything they need, but whether by choice or by fate, there is one thing We work hard to be excellent parents."Įvery year when I post in honor of Father's Day, I hear from mothers who are raisingĬhildren without fathers. Laura.My partner and I (both women) chose to have two children using a sperm donor. ![]()
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