Your Life
Single Mom Dating: The Truth About Dating Apps
Kristen weighs in on the recent spate of dating articles with her own experiences with dating apps and online services.
Parenting
3 Simple Tips For Getting Your Summer Parenting Groove Back
Are you feeling the crush of summer? Here are 3 simple tips to help you get your parenting summer groove back.
Health & Safety
How To Deal With Your Child’s Sadness, Anger, And Other Tough Feelings
Kids will experience a myriad emotions growing up and it’s our job as parents to help them learn how to cope.
Parenting
I Am Moved
Kristen looks back at the first two years of her divorce as she moves out of the home that helped her transition.
Parenting
On Becoming The Yes Mom
Parenting is full of a lot of “No’s” but it doesn’t have to be. Kristen shares how she turned a lot more of them into “Yes.”
Relationships
Single Mom Dating: Skipping to the Hard Stuff
Finding love after divorce can be challenging if you can’t even make it through a first date. Here’s why Kristen wishes she could just skip to the hard stuff.
Parenting
We’ve Got Each Other. And That’s All That Really Matters.
As cliche’ as it might sound, having each other, being with each other, it’s all that really matters in the end.
Relationships
Single Mom: Family of Choice
Sometimes your family isn’t blood related, but rather, dear friends and people in your life who act exactly as you wish your family would.
Parenting
Finding Your Voice
Kristen lost her voice this week. Literally. And she’s wondering if there’s a deeper meaning beyond the cold-induced hoarseness or if it’s just a cold.
Your Life
Dear Former Self, Welcome Back.
Feel like you’re a better mother for giving all of yourself to your kids? Turns out that the best thing you can do is keep some of that for yourself.
Young Child
Thoughts on the Underscheduled Child
With kids in activities and sports every single day of the week, there’s something to be said about just playing and being together.
Parenting
Soulmates
Parenting a big family can be a tough challenge, but there are certainly a lot of rewards, perhaps even unexpected ones, too.
Parenting
Who Cares For The Caretaker?
Self-care isn’t just about treating yourself to something special. For many people, it’s just giving yourself the simple, everyday necessities.
Parenting
My 1st Single Mom Anniversary: Truth & Misconceptions
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a single mom? Here, your assumptions and misconceptions about single moms are cleared up, once and for all.
Relationships
Five for Fighting
Lessons learns from a verbal altercation that can be applied to relationships and life in general.
Parenting
True Colors
Kristen Chase talks about co-parenting in a divorce when the parties are vastly different in their beliefs.
Your Life
On Being Your Best Self
What does being your best self mean? After making some life changes, Kristen Chase shares her thoughts.
Relationships
We Haven’t Come A Long Way, Baby.
On traveling alone as a single mother, and how we’re judged according to standards way higher than our male counterparts.
Uncategorized
When Life Gives You a Dirty Panda Hoodie, Make It Into a Sheep Costume
No matter how many kids or how much help you have, we parents are all just winging it, doing the best we can with what we have.
Relationships
Single Mom: Where Is The Love?
How do you know when you’re in love with someone? Kristen Chase ponders what that means after years of failed relationships and marriages.