Tag: single parents

On the road again

Posted on by Maggie McGuinness
It’s winter here in Australia, and I’ve been thinking with much longing about our annual summer holiday in January.

This is a blog post I wrote years ago for a parenting website. I still like it.

On the Road Again

Ah, summer… time to fill the car with kids and luggage and head to the beach. Max, Lauren and I are soon off on our annual holiday, and I’ll be following my own handy hints guide on how to survive long drives with kids, which is honed from many hours of ‘are-we-there-yet’ experience.

  1. Preparation

Make sure your car will get you there without getting its hoses tied in a knot and having a hissy fit. Check the oil, coolant, tyres and other important things … whatever they are. Better still, ask some nice bloke to do it for you.

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Dating… with children

Posted on by Maggie McGuinness

Another blog post from a few years back. I think the advice is still good, but I’m so glad I’m retired from the dating circus! I never was any good at the trapeze. Just the thought of going on a first date now makes me shudder.

Dating… with children

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This is what I look like on a date. Not!

There comes a time in a single mother’s life when she longs for someone to take her to dinner at a restaurant that doesn’t serve McChicken burgers – or McAnything, come to think of it.  Dinner… real food … with a glass of wine or two and some grown-up conversation. Is that too much to ask?

And so one ventures forth into the dating scene, which is enough of a seething swamp already, but is even more complicated when you have children as part of the package.

My friends know I’m an online dating veteran, so I was asked for advice the other day by another single mum who is thinking of following my dubious example.

“So, what do I need to know?” this sweet, innocent girl asked me, blissfully unaware of what lurks the other side of her modem.

Here, censored for general consumption, is my advice:

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