Being a Single Mom can be Fun and Rewarding

Parenting is one of the most difficult, yet could be the most enjoyable job ever. How can children touch our hearts and drive us crazy all at the same time? Single parenting is no easy task, but we hope below tips that can help make parenting a little easier for you and your child.

Practice Patience
Patience is a virtue and single moms can surely develop this virtue as they take care and nurture their kids. Sometimes it will take more than once to get an idea or a rule through to them but be patient and persistent. If you lose your cool so will they! Through patience and persistence you can teach them right from wrong, and how to remain level headed.

Empathize
Homework can become very frustrating for children. Sometimes, the amount of homework our children bring home can seem daunting, to say the least. When your child seems too stressed-out during his evening sessions, try suggesting a homework time-out to ease the tension. Having a snack, drink, or maybe just some conversation about his day will sometimes do the trick. Breaking the work up into more manageable tasks can help as well.

Train Early
Get your child to do chores as soon as they're able to understand what you're saying. From an early age your toddler should be picking up his own toys. Train him to pick-up his toys after playing with them.  You can start by making it a game.  You can tell him that you are faster in picking and clearing his toys.  Let him compete with you.  Later you can reward him for doing the chore every time he is done playing.

Feed him the right food
Make sure you feed your kid healthy food.  Start with all-natural organic baby food products and then try to expand on healthy food from there. You then will be able to accustom his taste buds to only nutritious food.  As soon as he is able to understand, tell him the value of nutritious food and how taking care of his health is very important. Treats can be allowed but in moderation.

Above simple tips will make parenting easier, fun and rewarding.  Train a child in the way that he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it (Prov. 22:6).  Enjoy every bit of your time with your kid as you watch him grow and mature to a fine person.