Single parenting can be really stressful and demanding. From managing the daily chores, looking after the child to managing work-life-balance, there’s certainly a lot to cope up with. In spite of all this pressure and demanding nature of their life, you still need to act calm as the child will always look up to them.
Here are the key challenges and related parenting tips for single moms to minimize the stress in their life:
#1 No One to Pass the Baton To -
Single motherhood creates an extremely demanding situation where you cannot pass the baton of responsibility to anyone. Instead, you have to manage the pressure of balancing your personal and professional life on your own. This sole responsibility for managing all the aspects of life creates a very challenging situation and increases the stress in life.
In order to reduce this stress and burden, the primary objective is to create a structured routine i.e. fix the schedule for everything - the time for meals, the time you and the children need to go to bed, the time you will have to get up and every other aspect of the daily life.
#2 The Feeling of Doubt -
Another challenge associated with single parenting is the feeling of self-doubt. Having a partner gives one the flexibility to get a second opinion or advice for every critical decision to be made in life, but in case of single parenting, this flexibility is missing. You have to make all the decisions on your own which sometimes creates a doubt - whether you are doing the right thing or not? This self-doubt causes you to lose confidence in yourself, resulting in developing a feeling of being “guilty” for your condition.
The most important tip to handle this situation is to delete the keyword “guilt” from your dictionary. You need to own your sense of self-love and focus towards another aspect of life, i.e. the responsibility you have towards your children, the love and attention your children need from you and the responsibility to make your children a better individual.