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Children of Single Parents

Ross-PWP-NSW by Ross-PWP-NSW Talking(March 2006) (rank 119th)

There is one organisation focused on enriching the lives of children of single parent families.

Parents Without Partners offers a great annual program of activities as well as Family Individual Talent Awards, and scholarship program. Parents Without Partners has a special focus to the needs of children of single parent families. Children have a chance to meet other children in the same situation as themselves and realise they are not the only ones affected by divorce or bereavement. PWP has children's activities every week-end including some major excursions and also some holiday camps. The majority of the children's activities are subsidised in order to allow the children to participate in a wide diversity of fun activites.

Special Children's Activities.

Every year there are special subsidised major excursions for the children including Dubbo Zoo Trip, June Long Week-end Snow Trip, Jamberoo Trip and a Red Eye Special Snow Skiing Trip travelling by a luxury bus. Also there is a school holiday camp in the north coast rainforests within walking distance from the beach. There are great regular activities and our special Christmas function with Santa. There is also a special creative arts competition whereby members and their children can enter drawings, paintings, stories, photographs and crafts. Our PWP children always win awards at the branch, state, national and international levels. A great self esteem booster..promoted by Parents Without Partners.

Check out there web sites at http://www.pwp-nsw.org.au and   http://www.pwp-hills.org


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Kellzacar
5.00 (Excellent) | July 2007 | Kellzacar
Re: Children of Single Parents
Certainly very interesting . . . . . Thanks Kellz


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llmunchkin
5.00 (Excellent) | July 2007 | llmunchkin
Re: Children of Single Parents
Sounds great - good information, well written, and great links.  If I were a single parent I would check it out.


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ClayCook
3.00 (Average) | March 2006 | ClayCook
Great organization
Sounds like a great organization.


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rachelcook
4.04 (Good) | March 2006 | rachelcook
Personal experience
What is it like being a single parent? It would be great to hear personal experience and advice for other single parents out there. How early do you explain to your child about single families?


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      exquisite-flower
5.00 (Excellent) | November 2006 | exquisite-flower
Personal experience

You answer their questions honestly and openly as they ask them. 

Some families are single parent from conception, others from any point onwards.  Depending on how the parent responds to the situation will usually outline how the child respnds.  If you are happy and get on with life, while acknowledging what happened they will likely do the same, be realistic.  But dont ignore it, or the child. 

My daughter likes to protect me from memories, she thinks her dad is a bad man.  For now she is too young to reason with, so I accpet what she says and gently tell her that she shouldnt say such and such.  (Talking bad about people should never be acceptable regardless of how they have treated you.  It just messes your own life up). I tell no lies, but no false hope about some amazing dad that doesnt exist either.  These days she tends to talk to my mum mostly and although she appears to have been having some bad dreams to do with him her daytime comments are not as negative as they were.

I could go on all day.  Feel free to ask more.  I will write advice if someone will give me the topic heading also...lol
Peace
EF.x 



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