Category Single Mothers
The Dysfunctional Family
A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions.
Why You Should Not Give Up
Setting high standards for your children will pay off eventually. In the midst of it all it may not seem so. And yet one day you will see it.
Focus on Your Strengths
Concentrating on your strengths will bring power into everything you do. Most of us do not know what our strengths are
Why Kids Need Boundaries
I’ve had occasion to think more recently about parents who want to be friends with their children. They don’t want their children to think of them as mean. They take it personally when a preschooler says, “I hate you.”
Are You on a Spiritual Path?
Walking Your Walk from The Wisdom of the Enneagram, The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for threw Nine Personality Types If we are honest about being on a spiritual path, every day we must embody the truths that we understand-indeed, every moment of every day. We must learn to “walk our walk” in […]
How Can I Be Strong as Single Mom When I Feel So Weak?
Choosing vulnerability is not our usual choice. We can learn, however, the honesty of being open can bring strength when we think we are weak.
How to Find the ‘Message’ in the Chaos
You may think that there is absolutely nothing good that can come from the chaos you are living.
Hiding Is Not Humility-My Own Worst Enemy for Single Moms
by Gail Cawley Showalter, Founder of SMORE for Women from My Own Worst Enemy by Janet Davis Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you heard a voice in your head say, “Just who do you think you are?” And what was your answer? Did you back off? Did you cower? Did you have a […]
Transitions Challenge Us to Take a Step Upward
Transitions Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. – Tom Stoppard A new year has dawned and we can look forward to our new days ahead. When our lives go through a change of seasons it is easy to see only the surface side of the situation. If the transition is sad […]
Gail Cawley Showalter 