Toddler
Helping a Toddler Cope With Divorce
If you’re worried about the impact your divorce is having on your toddler, read on for advice on how to smooth the transition of this difficult life event.
Parenting
Nobody Said It Was Easy
Changing and managing your expectations about the divorce process can help make you a better advocate for yourself and your kids.
Relationships
Toxic Family Ties
A new mom is in the middle of a War of the Roses in her family and needs advice on how to not let it affect her life and family relationships.
Uncategorized
Hitting the Reset Button
Single parent or not, we all need to allow ourselves a break and a chance to reboot and reset for the sake of our kids. Hold the guilt.
Parenting
Single Mom: The Kids Will Be Alright
What happens when being the single mom to your four kids is exhausting?
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.
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.
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.
Parenting
How To Tell Kids You’re Getting a Divorce
A reader asked how to tell her kids about the divorce. Single Mom Kristen Chase shares her 5 tips on how to have that difficult conversation.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Big Kid
If You’re Shallow And You Know It, Clap Your Hands!
I’ve never been the kind of parent to go for the flashy or extravagant gift for my kids, except I finally did, and it feels fantastic.
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
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.
Parenting
True Colors
Kristen Chase talks about co-parenting in a divorce when the parties are vastly different in their beliefs.
Relationships
Five for Fighting
Lessons learns from a verbal altercation that can be applied to relationships and life in general.
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.