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The Case for Single Parents: The Pothole-Filled Road Bullock-Cart Ride
If there’s one thing I am extremely proud of, and I only have to name one thing out of the intensely long list of things that I could and should be proud of, it would be this: I’ve managed to juggle the life of raising my kids and making money at the same time.
I think the life of a single working mother is an extremely tough one. So tough, I don’t think any kind of writing or speaking can do it justice.
Generally speaking, life as a mother or parent is a tough one.
The journey is not only harrowing, uncertain, scary (VERY scary), full of potholes, filled with closed doors and rainbows (it could both come to you all in one day or a whole year), goes unrewarded most of the time, but it is also the kind of journey that once embarked, you can never disembark.
Sort of like getting on a plane. Once you’re in, you’re going to be there for the entire journey, like it or not.
“You can survive this, or you can lie down and die,” — — Surviving (and Thriving) as a Single Mom
And yet, not only are single mothers and fathers overlooked and have to endure skewed views and judgment, people have strange misconceptions of single parents.
