Product Description
Targeting a rarely acknowledged, but increasing, audience, this book gives single parents advice for re-entering the dating game after years of not playing. Featuring insightful perspectives on real-life scenarios, this invaluable book addresses the crises and nagging doubts facing a single parent about such issues as:
€ How much should the children know? And when?
€ Coping with newfound fears and newfound desires
€ Meeting new people-safe… More >>
#1 by Jim Abbout on February 16, 2010 - 7:21 pm
My sister got divorced about 8 months ago after an 8 year mariage and two children. She has been on a dating frenzy, leaving her children with sitters and relatives. I know she’s upset and scared but the kids are going to and are paying. I got her this book to
try and help her be more sensible. She didn’t listen to me or my parents who came off like lecturers. But the stories of so many parents putting things together after a break up has made a dent in how she considers what she’s been doing. It’s good to have a book with other voices. A video would be great.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by ULYSSES ROSEN on February 16, 2010 - 9:18 pm
I’ve read a bunch of different books on the subject and didn’t find this one to impart anymore wisdom. Its for the parent who answers to their child and not to themselves. Its written in a very stodgy, unhumanistic way that pretty much says, “please your kids before evr pleasing yourself”. From the advice given, I am wondering if either author even has any teenager children of their own. I would suspect not!
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Dana Gallagher on February 17, 2010 - 12:15 am
I wish this book was a requirement for every parent seeking divorce. I have a yahoo group called Single Parent USA, and I’d love to make this required reading for each member.
(Someone asked for url: groups dot yahoo dot com/group/SINGLEPARENTUSA/)
This book gives a lot of practical advice about dating and being a parent. I see so many times single parents getting into relationships and just jumping in with both feet and not thinking about their children and what they are facing.
Every single adult deserves a social life, whether they are a parent or not, but you have to be careful and think of the kids. We all know that you can’t just shut off the sex drive because you had kids and are single, but at the same time there is a right way and a wrong way to go about dating as a single parent.
This book gives realistic advice from both angles. A lot of single parent books are geared just to the single mother, but these days there are a lot of single father raising up the children most, if not all the time. This goes to both types of single parents equally.
I’ve read this book once, and I think I’ll go back to again and again, just for advice on certain situations that will come up as my children get older.
If you are a single parent, the please for the sake of your children read this book. Having a relvolving door for boyfriends/girlfriends (that your children see), does effect your children majorly! You may not think it matters, but it does. Just go talk to some adults whose parents did that to them, I have and they were greatly effected!
Also, those single parents not sure about dating or hearing negative comments from family members, “You’re a mommy/daddy, you don’t need to date. Do you really need someone else to be happy?” This is the book that says you have the right to date and be happy with someone else and it gives several tag lines to throw it all back in their faces.
I only wish I’d bought it when I first got divorced three years ago!
Against the negative reviews this book got in the beginning. Perhaps you all make yourself out to be the perfect parent, but there are some of us who do need this advice and need this kind of help. And there are some that you need to slap them in the face with this book!
There is good advice in this book and even if the author does not have children she is educated. Just because you are a parent doesn’t mean you know it all!
You should read this book, despite what those others had to say! It is good advice.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by mary hunt on February 17, 2010 - 2:17 am
Coming from a woman who has no children of her own, I find it very interesting that she considered herself expert enough to write a book. Most people giving out the advice on children, don’t have any of their own. I thought this was a wishy washy endless diatribe for the permissive, new age parent. Lots of psychobabble nonsense that believes children should control their parents and we should sit back, smile and analyze..Save your money!
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by mary hunt on February 17, 2010 - 2:32 am
Written by a single author with no children of her own, I found this book to dole out extremely permissive wishy-washy advice that advises parents to coddle their children and permit poor behavior. Very new-agey, progressive nonsense!
Rating: 1 / 5