Parenting
Single Mom: The Kids Will Be Alright
What happens when being the single mom to your four kids is exhausting?
Relationships
Stories Don’t Mean Anything If You’ve Got No One To Tell Them To
Is blogging all truth, or is there fiction in the retelling of our stories? Kristen Chase talks about her ex’s reaction to her column.
Relationships
There’s No Place Like Far From Home For The Holidays
Surviving divorce with kids can be a daily challenge, but when the holidays roll around, it’s a whole other ball of emotional wax.
Parenting
Hearing with Your Heart
Should you ask your child what would make you a better parent? Single mom of four Kristen Chase asked her 9-year old and here’s what she said.
Relationships
Single Mom: Adventures in Online Dating
Ever wonder what it’s like to date online? Here’s a little insight into the online dating adventures of a single mom.
Parenting
True Colors
Kristen Chase talks about co-parenting in a divorce when the parties are vastly different in their beliefs.
Parenting
Single Mom: What About Staying Together for the Kids?
Single Mom of four Kristen Chase answers a reader question about making the decision to stay in an unhappy marriage for the sake of the kids.
Relationships
On Motherhood and Marriage Regret
Kristen Chase talks about motherhood and marriage regret, and how giving ourselves permission to step outside the box might be the key to personal happiness.
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
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.
Your Life
Single Mom: Honesty is the Best Policy
Staying in a bad marriage can make you a liar to your friends, your children, and yourself. Here’s how single mom Kristen Chase started telling the truth.
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.
Relationships
Why I Chopped Off All My Hair
Sometimes a pixie cut is more than just a style decision. Kristen Chase shares her reasoning for taking the plunge. And no, it wasn’t lice.
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.
Relationships
On Being Sad
Is sadness a bad thing? Kristen Chase talks about letting feelings out to let them go, with the hopes that they’ll find peace and that she will too.
Parenting
Along For the Ride
When we can’t slow things down, when things are speeding by us too quickly, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe we just need to hang on and enjoy the ride.
Your Life
Single Mom: Anything is Possible
As much as single moms might not want to admit it, there’s a fear of being alone. Kristen Chase shares her own worries about finding love again.
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.