Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.
Marge M. KennedyNo matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.
Marge M. KennedySingle parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.
Marge M. KennedyWe've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.
Marge M. Kennedy