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And it was quite the pair they were,and the slippers too.As he placed her tiny sized 18 feet ever so gently into those blazing red hot slipper,some magical coins fell out of his pocket.

Had I watched it I have to admit it would have got me as it would have reminded me of when it happened to my sister.

I am a single parent of a beautiful young lady. I raised her myself and did everything a parent was supposed to and a little more. She is now a Sophmore in college going for her BA in Crimimal Justice. She is the apple of my eye....

Thankyou (both)

(but I STILL wont bloody IRON!!)

just thinking here ,the only problem you may encounter about your son sleeping in your bed is your attachment , the day he decides he doesnt wanna share duvet space with you is the day you will realize hes all grown up .i personally think its a great way to bond with your kids ,and hear there ridiculous snores my boy shouts stuff in his sleep like "chips" or "get the cat" plus hes a gymnast and duvet hogger

My 3 children have been throo an awful LOT of things that children should never have to go through.

It forced them to grow up pretty quickly and see that the world was not rose tinted after all. (Bless them!!)



They have had years of counselling until more recently (one more than the other two)..

I have one son who remained top of the class in everything, Head boy at his school.. school (children's) counsellor.. and all that Jazz.. but bit his fingernails to the bone..

A daughter who was very very wobbly in it all.. (with a disease that took 6yrs to work throo and a gazillion operations 350 miles away.. bed pans wheelchairs.. body casts .. leg braces.. etc).. She was effected very badly throo it all.. (my marriage) and would scream and scream and SCREAM her lungs out (for up to a HOUR) even until the age of 11yr.. (shes 13 now) and used suffered the most horrifying night terrors... she used to pull out her hair in handfuls too.. until she had BIG bleeding bald patches.

And my youngest son.. (who is 12 now).. suffered the most..
He is the MOST charming polite.. kindest most caring and thoughtful child of my three.. and he completely went off the rails for a while there.

He went from being top of his classes (he has a high IQ) to being EXPELLED from TWO schools by the age of 9yrs.. and another when he was 10yrs old.. (expelled from THREE schools by the age of 10yrs!) I cried and cried and cried.. because I just didn't know what else to do to help him.

I taught him at home for a while because no school would take him.. (I tried MANY!) The Social Services tried to make me send him away to a behavioural boarding school 200 miles away where he would come home at weekends. But there was no waaayyy I was going to let that happen.. he was lost enuff as it was..
Finally I managed to get him into a teaching unit where he attended 4 part time days per week. and the rest of the time I taught him. (it was a FANTASTIC place! not the horror stories I had heard)

If I had a £1 (or $1) for every meeting I have attended with Doctors, Behavioural Specialists, Psychiatric Nurses.. Schools, Psychotherapists.. Art therapists.. Hospitals.. Other Therapists.. Social Services (at MY request btw!)... Single Counselling for each child (none for me btw.. I talk enuff as it is lol).. Family Counselling.. meetings with the Police.. and Review Meetings..

I would be a frickin MILLIONAIRE!!

BUT!!!... the upshot of it is.. though we nearly lost it there for a while.. we made it.. It's been a bumpy 5-6yrs.. wonky at first.. but everyone is alive and kicking.. and HAPPY!

Gage has been in a REAL school again since last September.. has loads of friends.. and has slowly become his beautiful old style self.. Annie doesn't scream the place down any more and is a happy bouncy girl.... and Jake is off to college soon to study Science..

and SOMEWHERE I still have a sense of humour.

And yeah.. though I DO say it myself.. It's been very VERY hard.. (I work too)

I KNOW I deserve a medal... at least for not chucking myself off a cliff!



and this is not looking for 'praise' ... or I would have told you before.

Yikes, I just Googled it...Scary stuff...

BUT, I've had a dog sleeping with me on and off since I was a kid. Seriously, I've never suffered any problems....Hopefully, our luck will still hold out... Thanks for the heads up.

What in the world is that???????

JMO...but surely it can't be a bad thing....???....
My daughter sleeps with me and always has. She has her own room, but when it's time to go to bed, she goes with me and the dogs...and so far, she's turning out just fine...

Ahhhhh...it's bittersweet when a man recognizes the demands of single parenting as you have done. There's a part of me that is glad that your awareness level has been raised and another part of me that feels for you, having to do this on your own (sort of a brotherhood thing, if you will). I raised 2 sons, also, and vividly recall scenes such as you describe. It used to drive me nuts at times, but I wouldn't have traded it for anything. I'm sure you know what I mean. Keep up the good work, Dad...it's the best job in the world.

I'll take the kudos sweetie. I know you enjoy your children. I would have loved to have more than one, but it wasn't in the cards for me.

Come out of the closet!