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"To know the road ahead ask those coming back" they said modestly ... Cameras roll, and action....
You Magazine, Mail on Sunday, 8th November 2009 - Why don't Mummy and Daddy love each other?This feature focuses on the children and answers problems that children of divorced parents are facing. Like our advice for single parents, it's practical and encouraging. It was written to help children and to remind us parents that much goes on in our children's minds that we often forget. Looking at things through their eyes can help us to give the the best childhood we can. Single Mums SOS with Kate & Emily ... our TV seriesWe had enormous fun, frets, laughs , anguish and a real rollercoaster of a journey as we have accompanied 15 single mothers along a little Kate & Emily journey. We do hope that the viewers are entertained and also learn something about the highs and lows of single parenting whether they are single parents themselves, know people who are, or it just puts a slightly different spin on the whole state. We are not experts with a raft of diplomas and qualifications (other than a couple of irrelevant degrees, and all manner of other interesting, though unrelated, certificates.) We are however, stuffed full of common sense and experience and hopefully a manner and style which encourages people to sort themselves out, nudge them along the way, or simply to do what they had always meant to do but had never got round to. We are also quite bossy!! A bit more about ur series We follow 15 people in batches of 5 as they get to know each other, start looking after themselves, improve relationships with their children’s other parent, start businesses, sort out their money, their wardrobes their attitude and so much more. The amazing thing about the series has been the extent to which the participants' lives appear to have changed within a relativly short period. Really all we have done is move on in there, activated them and coerced them with encouragement, enthusiasm and joie do vivre to make them believe that, whatever it is, it is possible and that they could and should dare to have a go. One of the consequences of living and being alone after a break up seems to be that people lose confidence, enthusiasm and the will to act. They are also often tired, run down and find it easy to come up with excuses not to. By having us in the background the mums were sort of forced to act, a bit like having a horrible deadline at work. I am sure we irritated all of them at some point but hopefully by the end I think they realised there was method in our madness. We did what your friends can't do, even though they might like to suggest some of this, unless they want firing. In many respects the journeys have been complete roller coasters of action and emotion. Despite a high proportion of people who would have abandoned mission if they could have - just about everyone seemed to get a lot out of the experience and their achievments ( we certainly did!). We can't take responsibility for what they achieved. They did it for themselves and that is the bit that sends shivers of joy down my spine, and tingles down hers. We merely directed and encouraged, hassled, and hopefully got them to think from a slightly different perspective. With a mixture of:
We aim to push people to achieve for themselves. We won't accept excuses, we want them pushing the envelope, getting out of their comfort zone, starting to live again and taking control. And guess what, it seems to have worked! So clock us in action on Discovery Home and Health. |
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