The Semi-Detached Parent
The Semi-Detached Parent: Advice - give or take?
There have been times when I've wished I had a sensible and informed family 'elder' to give me advice.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Work is the curse...
Last week I spent the best part of an hour on the phone to the Inland Revenue for them to tell me what I already knew: I am not entitled to any working tax credits, or the childcare element of them.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: The positives of single parenting
I have decided there are some very positive skills and traits that my son has developed due entirely to now being raised in a single-parent family
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The Semi-Detached Parent: The etiquette of separation
'If one parent is entirely responsible for the mundanities of everyday life (laundry, shopping, school homework) and the other sweeps the children off their feet every other weekend for a round of treats, outings and parental indulgence... the downtrodden parent will be understandably resentful.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Birthday Blues
It's my son's birthday in a few weeks; his first one since his dad moved out.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Letting go
A friend has started to allow her little boy to go to school on his own. He is just nine, and, admittedly, she watches him from their gate as he walks to the top of the road
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The Semi-Detached Parent: What would Oprah do?
So, you know how much I love a self-help book (you don't? I've written about it before, here).
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Out with the old
I got rid of my son's cot today. The fact it had been broken down into component form - various pieces of solid wood ends and ladder like sides - made it slightly easier; it didn't represent quite so much, lying their in pieces.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: New Year's Resolutions
Every year for probably the past twenty (maybe more) I have made the same resolutions – lose half a stone, finish my novel, go to bed earlier, get more exercise.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: So how was it for you?
I've already 'fessed up that I was terrified of what this Christmas might bring: from access arrangements to festive decorating
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Help, my child bores me
As much as I love my son, I have to admit, he sometimes bores me.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: It's wonky, and it's my Christmas tree
I learned this week that five-feet two-inch tall single mums struggle to purchase six-foot Christmas trees. But they CAN do it.
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