You're Settling In To It Now

  1. Make a list of words or phrases that describe you and your life now
  2. Which of these words are as a result of being a single parent and which are just the way you are?
  3. What do you see as being the main differences (good and bad) between you and your married friends with children? Write each difference on to its own post-it note or piece of paper.Once you’ve done that put each difference into one of 3 piles:
    1. Differences that make you feel envious
    2. Differences that make you pleased to be a single parent
    3. Differences that fall in between these 2 piles
  4. Now make a list of words that describe your children
  5. Write a list of things YOU are doing well at and a list of things you're not doing so well at
  6. Now write 2 lists for your CHILDREN. One of things they're doing well at and one of things they might need help at
  7. Look at what you’ve written for you and the children. Which of these things has the biggest effect on how…
    • happy you are?
    • low you are?
  8. What can you do about the low?
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