Author Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter
Learning to Wait
A Video Waiting Well Isn’t Easy #Gshowalter_livinglearningloving Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great deal about child development and how to handle kids. […]
Living Alone But Not Lonely-Solitude Can be An Opportunity
Living with Solitude Chapter 1 from Living Learning Loving Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great deal about child development and how to […]
Marriage: Optional – Disposable – Re-definable?
What Ever Happened to Marriage? Guest Post by Dennis Franck – Coach, Consultant, Speaker Before 1970, it was called “living in sin” or “shacking up” and was illegal in every state of the union. Today only seven states have laws making unmarried cohabitation illegal, although they rarely enforce it. Cohabitation has sky rocketed since 1990: […]
Living Learning Loving – Gail’s New Book Is Just Right for Single Moms
Gail holds a degree from Lamar University in Speech and a Master’s from the University of Texas. She married Sam after raising three children as a single mother. She was an educator in regular and special education for twenty years, finishing her professional career as a Braille teacher. In 2007 She founded SMORE for Women. […]
Do Your Kid’s Need Privacy or Safety?
Parenting in the New Age of Texting A lot of stories about parents invading their kids’ “privacy” have been headlining the news lately and fueling the debate over teen privacy and safety. Skyrocketing this issue back into the spotlight recently was a leaked viral video of a 13 year old girl showed her father shaving […]
Living Learning Loving a Fantastic New Book Just for Single Mothers, Lessons of Insight and Encouragement on the Path of Motherhood
Gail holds a degree from Lamar University in Speech and a Master’s from the University of Texas. She married Sam after raising three children as a single mother. She was an educator in regular and special education for twenty years, finishing her professional career as a Braille teacher. In 2007 She founded SMORE for Women. […]
Is My Child Too Self Centered?
Are You Overcompensating & Raising a Narcissist? Article by Gail Showalter in Single Matters online magazine Mothers love their children above all else. They can, however, confuse love with an adoration that borders on worship. Some parents get carried away and put their kids on a pedestal. Read more. . .
Living Learning Loving a new book especially for moms who are parenting alone
Living Learning Loving Lessons of Insight & Encouragement on the Path of Motherhood by Gail Cawley Showalter
Dating Again-from a Man’s Perspective
A Man’s Top Ten List on by Danny Mason used with permission One of the cool things about writing a blog is that sometimes, people write me back. Now, it’s not cool when they’re mean, which sometimes happens. But it is cool when someone writes to tell me that what I’ve written has encouraged them […]
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