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Single Parent’s Guide to Parenting With No Support System
When you’re a single parent without support, what can you do to create a happy, healthy life for you and your kids?
The ideal single parent scenario is one in which you have a co-parent with whom you get along beautifully, extended family and friends on both sides who are there to offer advice and other tangible support, and everyone lives happily ever after.
But we all know that ideal scenario is also not typical. For most single parents, we may not get along with our child’s other parent — or the other parent might not be around at all. Extended family and friends may not support the decision to be a single parent (even if it wasn’t an actual decision on your part) or they may be so busy with their own families that they’re not able to offer any support to us.
Single parenting without a support system isn’t easy, but it can be done. Not only can it be done, but you and your kids can actually thrive in it. It just requires you to be willing to change the way you picture your life. I have a few simple rules you can follow to make your solo parenting journey without support a little bit better.
