Making Time to Date as a Single Parent

Being a single mom or dad is tough. In the beginning, you spend a lot of time adjusting to your new situation. Finding ways to do things for yourself, helping your children cope with the change and building a different relationship with your co-parent if they are still around. If you are working, you also have to find ways to fit your schedule around your children and their needs, so things can be stressful. Then, eventually, you settle into a routine. You and your children become a little team, you have your ways of doing things, and you work well together. You are a unit.

Kate Gosselin Has a Problem With "Parents Who Let Their Kids Win,"

Kate Gosselin stirred controversy once again simply by playing ball games with her children. And playing to win. The mom of twins and sixtuplets is back on reality TV in part one of the two-part Kate Plus 8 reunion special and she's got people talking about her parenting style.

The mother of two teenagers and six 10-year-olds likes to win at games, and it doesn't matter to her that she is defeating her own children, and they have to deal with losing. In fact, that is the point for her. She thinks children have to learn to lose. She said during the episode:

I've got a problem with parents who let their kids win because nobody is going to let me win. And while I'm saying "do your best", "work your hardest", "try your hardest", why am I then, in a fun game, letting her win?

Dear Myne - My Mother Doesn't Want Me To Date a Suitor Who Has Children Already

Please I really need your advice in an issue that's bothering me. I have dated guys before including single parents but I get discouraged when am dating a guy and I know he has a child and the reason is because of my mother. She doesn't want any of her children to get married to anybody who has a child cause of her
marriage to my dad who had a daughter who gave us stress after he died.