The Single Parent’s Handbook
12 Dec 07

The Single Parent’s Handbook offers practical advice and essential tips to make the most of family life.

Raising kids is tough work at the best of times.  For single parents the challenge is doubled and too many parenting manuals ignore their unique needs.

Now, popular TV parenting expert and columnist Rachel Morris is here to help. She never preaches, but she does know what she’s talking about - she grew up as the child of a single mother, and is now a single mum herself.  She’s also has spent 16 years as a psychotherapist, listening to hundreds of clients talk about their experiences as parents.

Her warm, witty style will instantly reassure single mums and dads that they’re doing their best, and give them an invaluable source of emotional and practical support on everything from looking after themselves, to persuading an angry toddler to get dressed, to communicating with a sulky teen whose Dad’s just walked out.

The handbook is also a pool of shared information, encouragement, hassle-saving tips and lessons learnt from fellow parent’s trial and error.

Rachel’s honesty will appeal to every single parent who sometimes feels they can’t cope. She admits, “It’s a huge regret of mine that I didn’t learn how to enjoy being a parent, because I was so busy trying to survive it.”

To help other single parents get the most from their family life, she’s now sharing the funny, moving and surprising insights that her own experiences, both personal and professional, have afforded her.

The Single Parent’s Handbook covers key issues facing Single Parents, including:

• Building a family life that runs smoothly.
• How to stabilise the four essential corners of your life.
• Helping your children adjust to a single parent family.
• How to control your feelings of guilt.
• What to expect at each stage of childhood, from 0 to teens.
• Introducing a new love interest.
• How to build a relationship with your ex.
• Practical help from housing to finance and your legal rights.
• and much more.

	The Single Parent's Handbook
	Author	Rachel Morris
	Pub Date	8 Nov 2007
	Price	£9.99
	Publisher	Prentice Hall Life
	ISBN10	0273712837
	ISBN13	9780273712831
		Click here for further information or to purchase The Single Parent's Handbook.

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