Tag Archives: time

A Parent’s Favorite Day

Yesterday was my favorite day of the year. It wasn’t my birthday or anniversary. I didn’t win the lottery or score a kiss from Matt Damon. Heck, I didn’t even get a pass on cooking, laundry or vacuuming. What I did get is something no parent can put a price tag on—-extra time. An entire hour. Sixty glorious minutes. A bonus 3600 seconds. What parent doesn’t dream of having a 25-hour day? Goodness knows most of us find a way to squeeze 30 hours of work in a typical 24-hour day. So why wouldn’t we celebrate an extra hour? Thank … Continue reading →

Where You Didn’t See Tim Russert’s Face Shortly After his Death

In the days following “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert’s shocking death earlier this month dozens of national publications honored the TV politico with cover stories and touching tributes. Noticeably missing from this mix was a legendary magazine that is devoted to Russert’s own medium—TV Guide. Were you as shocked as I was that while publishing giants such as TIME, Newsweek, and PEOPLE ran lengthy tributes and placed Russert’s jovial face on the covers of their magazines TV Guide decided to place reality TV star Denise Richards on its cover. And no, it wasn’t because editors didn’t have enough time … Continue reading →

Where are You Spending Most of Your Time?

Staying organized and reasonably efficient in a home business means having a good idea of what you are doing with your time, energy and resources. Just because you have a plan or an “idea” of what you imagine you are doing as you work at your business does not mean that is actually what you are doing. It takes some honesty and self-examination, but periodically it is a good idea to review where it is that you are actually spending most of your time? When I first started my writing business, I figured up a budget based on all the … Continue reading →

Working in Bursts and Batches

I often write about time management and how to carve out efficient time for working at our home businesses. In fact, I often talk about how to protect your work time and create long stretches in order to stay focused and get things done. It dawns on me, however, that many us really do our best work in spurts—we only have time or energy for a little burst here or there and we work in batches instead of being able to spread things out over hours and days. This needs to be an okay way of working at a home … Continue reading →

Learning to Give Things Time

Impatience can be a problem for many of us—we want what we want and we want things to happen NOW. Whether we are trying to get through a grieving period, or rebuild our lives and our bank accounts, life as a single parent can be a lesson in patience. Learning how to allow the time to pass in order to facilitate healing, growth and change can be a big step for many of us. I know that when I was newly a single parent, I was incredibly frustrated by what felt like “going backward.” I had spent all those years … Continue reading →

How Do I Find Time To Scrapbook?

School’s officially out for the summer, the children are home full-time, and unless they are in a rigorous camp program, you are bound to be entertaining at some point. Most people assume that when summer approaches, they will have more time to relax, more time to do the things they want to do, this isn’t always true. Summertime brings people outside, through camping trips and swimming, camp programs and fairs and carnivals, and the list goes on and on. Summertime is statistically the time when the most people enjoy being outdoors. As we all know, scrapbooking is not really an … Continue reading →

What is “Wasting Time” to you, May Not Be to your Child

Time management is a big topic of conversation here in the Single Parents blog. We seem to be constantly brainstorming ways to get more done in an average day and to do it was as little stress and pressure as possible. One of the side effects of our needing to get a great deal done in the course of a day is that we can push and pressure our children to stop wasting time and to keep up and multi-task along with us. This might seem like a reality of single parent family life, but it is not always fair … Continue reading →

Are The Tantrums at Certain Times of the Day?

What parent does not find him or her having to deal with power struggles and temper tantrums at some point or another? For some of us, there are certain children who seem more likely to have the fits and temper tantrums, where for other children; it seems to be more age-related. What you might not have considered, however, is whether your child’s moods and behavior problems are actually tied to certain times of the day? Surely you have discovered that your child might be one of many who gets cranky at the end of the day—when he is hungry and … Continue reading →

How to Make Friends- part 2

In my last blog I said,’friends listen to my joys and problems and I listen to theirs and support them in prayer. It’s reciprocal.’ Reciprocal On that subject, sometimes it’s happened where I have met someone, we have a common interest and I think in time we could be good friends, but it never happened. We stay at an acquaintance level that never grows into friendship. Why? It could be that person is not looking to make more friends. Perhaps they have enough friends in their lives. Or perhaps there is something in my personality that grates on them? Or … Continue reading →

When a Single Parent Volunteers

Maybe you have read the words “single parent” and “volunteer” and are wondering how in the world a busy single parent finds time to do volunteer work too! Or, perhaps, you have your own tales of how you wish you could volunteer more, or you have been snubbed by the alpha-parents at your child’s school because you are working and taking care of family business instead of baking cupcakes or doing playground duty. The fact is, single parents can and do volunteer, we just need to find the right opportunities that mesh with the rest of our lives. I doubt … Continue reading →