Tom's Single Parent Life!

I was recently thinking about living beyond definitions... and more specifically living beyond the definitions of our language.

You know, it's so EASY to put things in a box and label them...

And while I'm talking about being open-minded, you don't necessarily need to be open-minded to get this concept.

I wanted to discuss something today, based on the definitions but more importantly how we live our lives with it.

It's the idea of Choosing or Deciding....

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It's coming... That's right... SCHOOL!

I know, it's MID AUGUST and there are already commercials on TV and you can't go to the grocery store without seeing ads that say "Get Ready To Go Back To School"...

And while my daughter is slightly under the age to get ready for school we have a close friend who is starting second grade... He's staying with us for the three weeks until school starts, so getting him ready for school has been a topic of conversatio

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Like just about everything else in life, the concept of Single Parenthood is incredibly easy and vastly complex...


That line sounds like I'm trying to sound intellectual and be "Captain Vague" at the same time!


But in all seriousness, I was contemplating the labels we use when it comes to Single Parenting... For example, even the term "Single Parent"... If you're reading this right now and you feel like this aligns for you, you're probably Single and a Parent...


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Today I finished a new video about Communication for Single Parents...

The story goes a little like this... The other day a friend and I were talking... He's a Single Dad too, but he'd just received a pretty angry text message from him Ex. He was really shaken up by it and he was adding all kinds of crazy meanings to it and was visibly frustrated.

After talking for a bit, we decided to get some clarity around it... and rather than completely dissect it, we decided that we were… Continue

You know, it's funny... some of the coolest stuff is for kids and some of the lamest stuff is for kids...



At a Landmark function about a month ago my daughter met this really cool guy named Alex... Alex is 11 and to a four year old, that means nothing but "good times"...



Alex brought a toy into the party that was called Flurp... It was kinda like "slime" they had when I was a kid. Basic… Continue