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Joining Single Parent Community

Joining Single Parent Community

Interactions with single parents through single parent community provides the much needed change and at times it teaches many new things like dealing with emergency situations. A new outlook is perceived after joining a single parent community. Read on to know more about the benefits of joining single parent community.

Raising a child is definitely one of the toughest jobs known to mankind. As you rage through the storms of child rearing with your partner, you get to know that there are countless other associated difficulties that tag along.

When you have to manage the same after the demise of your partner it appears to be a whole new episode of hardships. It is here that you need some support from like minded people with whom you can share your feelings. More than anything else, this provides the much needed emotional succor and enables you to take up the strife with greater determination.

So, joining a single parent community can help you deal with your loss as well as provide you with options that can ease out your troubles while single handedly raising your child.

Following the death of a spouse or separation, you get too involved activities related to your child and your work as you are the sole bread-winner of your family. As a result some important aspects of your life goes unconsciously overlooked which is again not welcome for the overall well-being of your family.

Benefits of Joining Single Parent Community

Here are a few ways on how joining a single parent community can be beneficial to you and your kid:

You Will Begin to Take Care of Your Own Self

This is of prime importance as you are responsible for the well-being and development of your child. Be it the work pressure or the unavoidable griefs, you often end up ignoring your basic needs. But if you are a member of a single parent community, mere interaction with other parents will help you to become observant about your own life.

Research indicates that a few obvious things like whether you are getting enough sleep, enough nutrition in your diet, etc get overlooked as you are stressed out with work and other chores. Joining a single parent community will help to self-manage your time and resources in a better manner.

You Can Join Forces, Get Company

When you are a single mom or dad, you will often find that you are alone with your little one in the evening and there is no one else around. Once you become a part of the single parent community, you get to build association with other single parents like you who are in a similar situation. It is an undeniable fact that human beings cannot live in solitude and the kid also needs to grow up in a family atmosphere. When you plan a dinner with say another single mom or dad, it will be a great time for the kids as well as for you.

It is easy to find or build such a community through your regular church visits, the social networking sites, the local mother’s club or women’s centre or even the synagogue. The basic point of this exercise is to develop a sense of belonging and a group that can provide emotional support. It also checks the propensity to retreat into a shell and shun social life which can prove to be detrimental for the desired development for your child and your own self in the long run.

You Begin to Get Creative about Childcare

Single parents usually resort to set routines and whether you like to accept it or not, it becomes more of a monotonous exercise after a certain period. But just because you fear upsetting the daily schedule, you refrain from experimenting. But when you get in touch with other members of the community, you derive newer ideas and gain the confidence of trying them out with your kid. This brings in a welcome change.

Further you also get to know more on how to deal with emergency situations and know on where you are likely to find help in times of need.




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Jeet
Jeet.7 years ago
Am based in Kolkata i also want to join
 
 
 
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Malvika
Malvika.7 years ago
I want to join too... i'm from noida
 
 
 
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Dhanraj
Dhanraj.8 years ago
Hi am join single parent group I hope friend

To u ..I am from pune
 
 
 
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marora
marora.9 years ago
Hi...i m 32yrs old N I m physically handicap N I m single mom of a 5yrs old girl... i wanna join dis group
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girish
girish.10 years ago
Hi i want to join single parent group...hope i will b great friend to u all...Im from bangalore
 
 
 
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neelima
neelima.10 years ago
yes sanjeev ji we cam tlk if need to make a group we can we all r lonely
 
 
 
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Neelima
Neelima.10 years ago
Hi i want to join single parent group I want to make new friends to cope up the loneliness I m from delhi
 
 
 
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Sanjeev
Sanjeev.11 years ago
It will be great to connect with Single parents - Moms and dads, if they are active in Delhi/NCR- Gurgaon
 
 
 
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