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As a devoted parent, it is only natural to want to spend time with your child. Spending time with interacting with your child is how you build a bond. Building a bond and fostering dependence are two separate things, however. If you encourage your child to be dependent on you to meet their physical needs and entertain you, you will never get anything done. Parenting is the slow procession of working yourself out of a job. Teaching your child to play independently is part of building the confidence he needs to begin meeting his own needs. It will also give...

Parenting has never been touted as the easiest job on the planet, but single parents face unique obstacles that make the day-to-day of raising children even more difficult. Sure there's less money to go around, and you'd give your right eye for someone else to handle the tantrums just once, but here are four single-parent problems you may not have thought of yet. 1. "Quick" Trips to the Grocery Store When you're a single parent, there's no running into the store for just one or two things. At the very least, you have to bring everyone in with you (lest...

What's the hardest thing you've ever done as a parent? It's not an easy question, is it? Your mind races back through so many snapshots; a fast-flipping Rolodex of moments and memories. I remember my first (but far from only) hard parenting moment as if it was yesterday, and not already 13 years behind me. We'd just brought home our firstborn, a nearly ten-pound boy who emotionally enlarged my heart and physically exhausted my spirit. The staff at the hospital had intently focused on nursing and diapering to, I'd discover, the detriment of other little, important parenting things. Such as...