The Single Parent Talks

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15 Earth Day Activities for Kids

A few days to go and it’s World Earth Day!

Simply thinking of the words “Earth Day” makes me think of giving back to mother earth. This is just one day, celebrated every 22nd of April each year, where we are reminded to assess what is happening to our environment, and what we can do to preserve it.

Imagine if we aren’t celebrating this one special day. I think people would just go on their selfish desires and forget about the importance of nature. Our situation would be much like some enterprising billionaire taking off the old trees to pave way for a parking lot expansion.

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Parenting Tips for Parents with Tweens

Rolled up eyes. Endless pouts. Boy crushes. Body odor.

Hands over ears on reminders. “I know mama!”, she says.

My little darling who used to dress up right away whenever I go out in town, suddenly insists on staying at home!

In town, she doesn’t want to be seen walking with me side by side 90% of the time!

To her eyes, I seem to have gone from being the greatest mom in the world to the worst one! She used to listen to me and ask all about the world, but now she keeps on correcting my “mistakes”.

Looking for parenting tips for parents with tweens? It’s not that easy and there’s no hard and fast rule for it. But still, a good advice given is still worth a try.

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How to Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back

I was young. I was in love.

I have fallen in love several times. I give my all, but then for some reason the relationship simply fails. Then again, I get to that part of the relationship that I hate the most: saying goodbye and letting go.

Too many times, the devil in me says to stop crying, to stand up, to stay and fight, and to win back the love. So I wouldn’t have to deal in fighting out weeks and months of loneliness and depression.

Is he really worth the chase?

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That Facebook Ex: To “Friend” or Not to “Friend”?

Social networking sites makes the world go smaller everyday. It wasn’t this way when my grandparents were at my age now.

My Facebook profile is a hodgepodge of old and new friends including former classmates, office mates, and new acquaintances and people whom I met online. Along that mixture is a sprinkle of old flames – Facebook exes that I had!

Did I “friend” them? Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don’t, but oftentimes I am the one who sit and wait for their friend request, if ever they get to make one. Even if I apparently found them first in Facebook, I would rather not hit the friend request button to a Facebook ex initiate friendship. Why would I have to? To see them with their happy wives and happy kids? To see their publicly available photos of kissing their girlfriends?

So maybe I wasn’t able overcome my feelings for them, and that I dwell too much in the past?

 

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