Single Parenting Tip: How To Become Parent of the Year
Before you know it, the “Holiday Season” is here and during this all important season, you can become “Parent of the Year.” As a single parent how are you preparing for this important season. Some of you look back with an almost child like happiness enjoying the season as much if not more than your kids. A season where the kids get to have both parents for the day.
Having both Parents for the day is the perfect day for the kids. Yes, this might work in the early stages of your divorce, but will it still be the same way a few years later?
What happens when you and your Ex are both in a serious relationship. Do you tell the man/woman of your dreams that you can’t make Thanksgiving because you have to spend it with the kids and the Ex. After all, isn’t everything you do for the kids? This might cause your new and serious relationship to take a turn in the wrong direction.
On the other hand, if every holiday is considered “Family Day” and all of a sudden there’s a change in the game, you will break the hearts of your children. Not too mention it could cause immense psychological problems changing things.
How do you handle the Holidays now that the divorce is final and become “Parent of the Year?”
As a single parent, you can save a lot of heart ache and disappointment if you think of the holiday as “A Day” instead of “The Day.”
For instance, if your Ex has the children for Thanksgiving, take another day with your children and make a Turkey dinner together, and the fun part, it takes all day. And, it can be any day, like the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Let the kids make the mashed potatoes and you will really appreciate just how great they taste even if they are lumpy. What you are doing is making a day a family day. For me — it’s my single Parent family.
The next big holiday, of course, is Christmas. Do you want to be “Parent of the Year?”
Here is an amazing tip to be “Parent of the Year.” Just let the Ex have the children on Christmas. Then, listen to what they got and ask them what they really wanted to get but didn’t get. Go out on December 26th when those fabulous sales start and everything is reduced 50% and get the gifts they really wanted but didn’t get. If you’re on good terms with the Ex, do it together and save on those discounted gifts.