It is a fact well established that a woman not in possession of a husband must be in want of a baby. Or at the very least a cat, so I was of course not surprised to see (on Twitter. Not in the course of my own literary wanderings. I prefer something a little more…
Tag: single parenting
Nine New Year’s Resolutions for Single Parents With No Money
New Year’s Resolutions are a funny thing. For a start, surely it’s better to turn over a new leaf at a time of year when you are not literally etching the days onto a bleak wall like a prisoner waiting to be released, eking out a cold and miserable existence until the crocuses raise their…
Egg Freezing: Putting all your eggs in one basket?
“Do you think we’ll all still be single and friends with each other in our thirties?” The year is 2000. A new millennium has dawned, and having recently read and become mildly obsessed with Bridget Jones’ Diary, I am sitting in a bar in Oxford with two of my closest friends from university, musing aloud…
Why It’s OK To Be Single, And It Doesn’t Mean You Need Fixing
I have a friend, let’s call her A, who has a fabulous life. Fabulous in that anything-could-happen sense that only the life of someone with no ties-no partner, no children-can be. Filled with friendship, travel and opportunity. A glance at her Instagram feed shows seemingly random jaunts abroad, wonderful food and friends from all corners…
Three Reasons You Should NEVER Take a Toddler to Choose Their Own Birthday Present
Let’s get this out of the way first. I know I’m a monster. If I was any sort of mother, I would have arranged for someone else (in an ideal world, my doting husband and babyfather, for example, if such a person existed, we are talking about a hypothetical IDEAL world here, not the one…
So you’re thinking about being a single mother by choice….
Recently, I have been asked what advice I have to give to those embarking on the journey of becoming a single mother by choice. It’s always difficult to impart pearls of wisdom to other people, who may well be in completely different circumstances to your own, but here are a few little snippets I wish…
Fitting It All In
The yoga teacher is disappointed in us, I’m sure. Every week she asks us the same question. Are we doing our yoga at home? Just a fifteen minute practice in the mornings? Hell, we can even do it in bed if we want to. Yoga really is that flexible (if you’ll excuse the pun) and…
Will I Be Single Forever?
We’ve all googled that, right, as a joke? OK, maybe not even as a joke. Google knows everything. Dr Google, Professor Google, Lord and Lady Google; Fellow of the Royal Society of Googling. Bring me your wisdom O omniscient sage of the interwebs, and predict my romantic future. I never got a satisfactory reply. My…
Bath, Book, Bed? I Should Be So Lucky
The evening routine is not something I have ever really got the hang of. I am not a routine person. Mornings are for rushing out of the door barely dressed and with a toddler still mewling at the outrage of being torn from the comforting catatonic vigil of back to back Paw Patrol and Fireman…
What if You Don’t Have An Amazing Daddy?
There are certain conversations that just don’t go down well in a public forum. Naturally, once one has children any embarrassment about, for example, shouting “POO!” randomly at frequent intervals seems to dissipate. Not so, however, with certain other conversations, such as the one I found myself having at swimming today. “Daddy, daddy, daddy!” my son is…