Articles Tagged: single parenting

The Semi-Detached Parent: The positives of single parenting

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Mar 28, 2012

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

The Semi-Detached Parent: The etiquette of separation

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Mar 9, 2012

'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.

The Semi-Detached Parent: Out with the old

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jan 18, 2012

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.

The Semi-Detached Parent: So how was it for you?

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jan 2, 2012

I've already 'fessed up that I was terrified of what this Christmas might bring: from access arrangements to festive decorating

The Semi-Detached Parent: Help, my child bores me

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Dec 19, 2011

As much as I love my son, I have to admit, he sometimes bores me.

The Semi-Detached Parent: 20 reasons why I am STILL single

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Nov 20, 2011

I told a friend how my dog sleeps in my (OUR) bed, adding "this is why I am still single."

The Semi-Detached Parent: Rage, fury and pillow punching

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Oct 7, 2011

Ah, the emotional roller-coaster of break ups and separations and single parenting! How is it that some days can go by like Christmas and a birthday rolled into one, full of joy and laughter and fun, and others are spent – mentally, if not physically – rolled up in a ball on the bed, sobbing into (and punching) a pillow?

The Semi-Detached Parent: The realities of holidaying as a single parent

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Sep 16, 2011

I've been away with my son on my own plenty of times before, and it has always been ace (Mainly. Apart from the time I chronicled here when he wanted to lie on the sofa exercising his thumbs on his DS for a week, whilst I wanted to go walking on the beach in the rain...)