Comments on: Meeting the Challenge of Being a Single Mom http://powertochange.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:28:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Traci http://powertochange.com/experience/family/singlemom/comment-page-1/#comment-228838 Traci Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:24:10 +0000 http://thelife.com/?page_id=5330#comment-228838 Thank you Doris! I will check out the mentors. Yes I am seeking out the male mentor through my church but it hasn't been easy...or the Lord is simply wanting to see how patient in my faith I can be. I like the surrogate grandfather idea as well as he has nana's but no male counter parts as they have both passes away. I will keep waiting on the Lord for the right matches to come along! Thank you. Thank you Doris! I will check out the mentors. Yes I am seeking out the male mentor through my church but it hasn’t been easy…or the Lord is simply wanting to see how patient in my faith I can be. I like the surrogate grandfather idea as well as he has nana’s but no male counter parts as they have both passes away. I will keep waiting on the Lord for the right matches to come along! Thank you.

]]> By: <span class='mentorBadge' title='Doris is an official Power to Change mentor.' >Doris</span> http://powertochange.com/experience/family/singlemom/comment-page-1/#comment-203160 Doris Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:18:16 +0000 http://thelife.com/?page_id=5330#comment-203160 Traci, are you part of a small group in your church? For many years we had a single mom in our group and her son was mentored by the guys in our group. It was so neat to see them pour their lives into his life and to see him grow up to be a man after God's own heart. Another idea is to ask God for surrogate grandparents in your church who would 'adopt' you and your son and build into his life. I have also seen that work very effectively. We have mentors on this site who might also have some great ideas. If you would like to have someone contact you, just fill out the information on this form and someone will email you. http://powertochange.com/discover/talk-to-a-mentor/ Traci, are you part of a small group in your church? For many years we had a single mom in our group and her son was mentored by the guys in our group. It was so neat to see them pour their lives into his life and to see him grow up to be a man after God’s own heart.

Another idea is to ask God for surrogate grandparents in your church who would ‘adopt’ you and your son and build into his life. I have also seen that work very effectively.

We have mentors on this site who might also have some great ideas. If you would like to have someone contact you, just fill out the information on this form and someone will email you. http://powertochange.com/discover/talk-to-a-mentor/

]]> By: Traci http://powertochange.com/experience/family/singlemom/comment-page-1/#comment-186952 Traci Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:46:32 +0000 http://thelife.com/?page_id=5330#comment-186952 Ashley: I agree with what you are saying. I am in the exact same boat with my 4.5 year old son. I am looking for a male mentor for my son through the church, but I do think the suggestions are still good ones in some context. Ashley: I agree with what you are saying. I am in the exact same boat with my 4.5 year old son. I am looking for a male mentor for my son through the church, but I do think the suggestions are still good ones in some context.

]]> By: Ashley http://powertochange.com/experience/family/singlemom/comment-page-1/#comment-111993 Ashley Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:31:30 +0000 http://thelife.com/?page_id=5330#comment-111993 I am a single mother of a 1 year old in which the father has never been present. This article had no advice in it for people like me. It was all about children from divorced parents and the title is "Meeting the Challenges of being a Single Mom". I think a better title would have been "Meeting the Challenges of Being a Divorced Single Mom Whose Children are Affected by it". This article had no advice for me being a single mom from the beginning and how I talk to my son when he starts asking me about his dad. I am a single mother of a 1 year old in which the father has never been present. This article had no advice in it for people like me. It was all about children from divorced parents and the title is “Meeting the Challenges of being a Single Mom”. I think a better title would have been “Meeting the Challenges of Being a Divorced Single Mom Whose Children are Affected by it”. This article had no advice for me being a single mom from the beginning and how I talk to my son when he starts asking me about his dad.

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