This Is Solo Parenthood: Survival Tips For Solo Parenting’s Tough Moments
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Whether it’s for a weekend, a season, or a decade, parenting on your own introduces challenges and complications at every turn. Expanding on the conversation we began last week, today’s episode–part two in our This Is Solo Parenthood series–dives into practical tips from seasoned moms on how to survive solo parenting’s tougher moments. From bedtimes to me-time, routine changes to feelings of loneliness, Meagan and Sarah share some been-there-done-that tips from our own seasons of parenting solo, as well as tap into the wisdom of The Mom Hour community.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I am Megan |
| 0:25.8 | Francis here with Sarah Powers. Hi Sarah. Hey Megan, how are you? I am very happy |
| 0:31.1 | to be back in our second episode in a series about solo parenthood. We did |
| 0:37.0 | this last week and it was so great to talk to the four moms that we featured on |
| 0:42.3 | the show to for me and to for you. And now we're back to kind of give I don't know |
| 0:46.6 | like a broader experience, I guess. Yeah, I'm really excited about this and I |
| 0:51.0 | really did enjoy the two interviews I got to do last week and then I love |
| 0:55.7 | hearing the ones you did. And we've heard from a lot of people that just |
| 0:59.8 | those four windows into the world of solo parenthood left a lot of people |
| 1:04.2 | feeling less alone, even though they're just four examples. And that's one of |
| 1:08.4 | the things we're gonna get into today is we know that nobody's situation |
| 1:12.8 | looks exactly like anybody else's and that was kind of a through line. So |
| 1:16.9 | thank you to everybody who emailed us and just let us know that you really |
| 1:20.4 | enjoyed that episode. I'm hoping today, Megan, that we even brought in this |
| 1:24.4 | little bit because I know I feel like I don't have a lot of cred as a solo |
| 1:29.3 | parent in the way that the four moms we interviewed last week do when I was |
| 1:34.4 | doing solo parenting, it was shorter stints and I had a very supportive |
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