Single Parent Support
Our school was very receptive to the idea, and I very much encouraged other
single parents and elementary schools to begin their own single parent groups.
I have to admit that formation and start-up is gradual. First you have to
learn who is a single parent. I did this by creating a roster for sign-up at
the PTA meetings and recruited people I knew were single
parents. With the help of another very creative single mother in the school,
we wrote a blurb in the school newsletter stating the formation of the group
and the location of the first meeting, which was on-sight in the school
library. Our first meeting was incredible! The Vice Principal of the school
(also a single mother) was there, and we had a single parent psychologist who
facilitated a partial support/therapy group in the hour and a half meeting,
which also included a speaker from the community. Child-care was arranged for
those parents who had no alternative. |
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