Single Parent Support and Resetting Your Life With Jodi Seidler

Welcome to the Making Lemonade Reset Single Parent Network 🍋

This is not a survival guide. It’s a recalibration.

Making Lemonade was created for single parents who have already lived through the plot twist and are ready to write the next chapter with intention, clarity, and strength. If you’re here, you’ve likely done the hard things already: held it together, figured it out, shown up when it was heavy, and kept going when stopping would have been easier. This network exists because grit alone is not a long-term strategy.

The Reset is about reclaiming your footing, not fixing yourself. There is nothing broken here. There is simply a moment in time where life asks you to pause, reassess, and choose again, with better tools and a stronger sense of self.

Inside this community, we focus on real-life resets: emotional, financial, practical, and personal. We talk honestly about money without shame, boundaries without guilt, healing without rushing, and rebuilding without pretending it’s linear. We replace overwhelm with structure, isolation with connection, and burnout with sustainable momentum.

Making Lemonade is where single parents stop carrying everything alone. It’s where experience is honored, wisdom is shared, and forward motion is built step by step. No hustle culture. No toxic positivity. Just grounded support, smart strategy, and space to become who you are next. You didn’t choose every circumstance that brought you here. But you do get to choose what comes next.

Welcome to the Reset.

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Navigating Single Parenthood: Challenges and Support 🍋

Single parenting is a journey built on strength, resilience, and deep love. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities as you navigate life after divorce, balance responsibilities, and create stability for your family.

As a single parent, you are doing more than getting through the day—you are leading, supporting, and shaping a strong foundation for your children. While the path can feel overwhelming at times, every step forward reflects your courage and commitment.

You don’t have to do this alone. Community, guidance, and shared experience matter. At Making Lemonade, we support single parents through every stage of the journey—from early transitions and co-parenting to rebuilding confidence and thriving beyond survival.

We offer practical tools, emotional support, and resources for both parents and children, including storybooks that help kids understand and heal after divorce. Together, we focus on growth, resilience, and creating a positive future for your family.

Single parenting isn’t just about coping... It’s about building a life that truly thrives. 🍋

The Single Parent Reset Network | More Than Survival 🍋

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Resetting your life as a single parent is about more than surviving a breakup or learning to co-parent. It’s a whole-life reset that helps you realign your identity, energy, boundaries, and direction after divorce or major life change.

Starting over as a single parent doesn’t mean starting from scratch. A single parent reset means moving forward with experience, resilience, and a clearer understanding of who you are now. It focuses on rebuilding self-worth after divorce, setting healthy co-parenting boundaries, managing time and energy to avoid burnout, and developing a more supportive inner dialogue.

This reset also means releasing relationships and patterns that drain you, redefining your vision for the future, and allowing support instead of carrying everything alone. A single parent reset isn’t about forgetting the past, it’s about reclaiming what’s possible and building a life with greater clarity, calm, and confidence.

Click below to download the Single Parent Reset Guide and begin your next chapter. 🍋

Single Parent Reset Guide

Single fatherhood doesn’t follow a single path. Every single dad’s journey is shaped by unique circumstances, challenges, and strengths. What connects single fathers is the need for practical guidance, emotional support, and a trusted community that understands how to rebuild life after divorce or major transition.

This network is designed for single dads navigating life after divorce, adjusting to co-parenting, rebuilding daily routines, and redefining their role as both a parent and an individual. Whether you’re in the early, overwhelming stages or entering a new phase like dating again or empty nesting, you don’t have to do it alone.

We support single dads through the real moments—logistics, emotional stress, identity shifts, and the steady work of rebuilding confidence and stability. Wherever you are in your single father journey, you belong here. Your reset doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to begin.

Click below to explore our Guide for Single Dads and take the next step forward. 🍋

Single Dad Reset Guide

Single Parent Checklist 🍋

Emotional Reset

⬜ Allow space for mixed emotions without judgment
⬜ Identify what you’re grieving and what you’re relieved to release
⬜ Practice daily self-compassion
⬜ Reduce pressure to “move on” quickly

Identity Reset

⬜ Reflect on who you are now after divorce
⬜ Clarify personal values and non-negotiables
⬜ Identify what kind of life you want to build
⬜ Separate your identity from your past relationship

Stability Reset

⬜ Create consistent morning and evening routines
⬜ Establish predictable schedules for your children
⬜ Build weekly planning habits
⬜ Simplify decisions to reduce stress

Support Reset

⬜ Identify people who genuinely support your healing
⬜ Release relationships that drain your energy
⬜ Connect with other single parents
⬜ Seek community designed for post-divorce life

Boundary Reset

⬜ Define communication boundaries with your ex
⬜ Protect your emotional and mental energy
⬜ Limit exposure to unnecessary conflict
⬜ Practice saying no without guilt

Future Reset

⬜ Redefine success on your own terms
⬜ Set realistic short-term goals
⬜ Create long-term visions rooted in stability
⬜ Allow dreams to evolve

what stage are you in?

Single Parent FAQ 🍋

Frequently asked questions for single parents covering parenting, co-parenting, emotional support, finances, and starting over after divorce or separation.🍋

How do I co-parent with a jerk?

Don't Expect Anything Story Book: Navigating the Realities of Divorce and Managing Expectations, In the often tumultuous journey of divorce, it's crucial not to expect a storybook ending. The qualities that once made your ex-partner wonderful may take unexpected turns post-divorce. Divorce has a way of unraveling the best in us, sometimes revealing anger, passive-aggressiveness, or a shift to seemingly uncaring behavior. Buttons are pushed, fears surface, and the uncertainty of not getting what one wants can lead to challenging dynamics.

While some fortunate couples manage an amicable separation with the well-being of their children in mind, not everyone experiences such smooth transitions. It's essential to approach divorce with realistic expectations and a level-headed mindset. Consider keeping an emotional insurance policy by seeking support from a therapist or a trusted friend to stay centered throughout the process, always remembering the complexities of the person you are dealing with.

How long will it take to get over my divorce or relationship ending?

Experts often suggest that healing from a relationship or marriage takes approximately half the time of the duration of the union. Recovering, finding peace, and reinventing one's life and love life require a significant period. Following this general rule, if you were married for ten years, anticipate about five years to truly "get over" it or move on. The aftermath of a divorce prompts reflection, allowing individuals to understand what went wrong, heal, and avoid repeating past mistakes in future relationships. While it may seem like a lengthy process, every experience, whether joyful or painful, contributes to personal growth and development. Gratitude can be found in the lessons learned, even in the face of challenging circumstances and the alteration of our envisioned futures.

How do I prepare myself for empty nesting?

The culmination of single parenthood is often marked by the transition from managing the intricacies of solo parenting to the art of navigating an empty nest. The days of juggling finances, balancing work, homework, and play dates come to an end when we send our child off to college. While this separation can be emotionally challenging, it also signifies a new chapter for us. Teenagers, in their quest for independence, may distance themselves in surprising ways, prompting feelings of sadness and nostalgia. Despite any moments of tension, they do appreciate all that we've done for them.

It's a natural part of the dance of moving away and starting their own lives. Just as we've set up our kids for their new life, it's time to do the same for ourselves. As adults, we've already embarked on a new life after divorce, and now we begin a new chapter – our life. While it may feel daunting, it's an opportunity to let friends know we're more available for outings, plan getaways, and explore ways to meet new people. Keeping a journal can be therapeutic, allowing us to acknowledge and process our feelings without burdening our children with the responsibility of our emotions during their absence.

When It’s Time for a Life Reset: Rebuilding After Major Transitions 🍋

There comes a moment during a major life transition when you realize the old way of living no longer fits. It often follows divorce, a breakup, a move, loss, or the quiet exhaustion of carrying too much for too long. The moment isn’t dramatic. It’s calm and unmistakable. And it signals that it’s time for a life reset.

Starting over is not failure. It’s a deliberate choice to stop surviving and begin rebuilding with intention. A reset begins when you accept that returning to what was is no longer possible and moving forward, even without a clear roadmap, is necessary.

A personal reset rarely looks bold from the outside. It shows up in honest decisions: choosing stability over chaos, clarity over confusion, and self-respect over burnout. It’s the choice to set boundaries, ask for support, and realign your life with what truly matters, especially in life after divorce or significant change.

Beginning again requires a quiet kind of strength. Not the kind that demands recognition, but the kind that shows up consistently. It lives in small, steady steps: releasing what drains you, protecting your peace, rebuilding routines, and trusting yourself to figure things out along the way. Each step forward reinforces your ability to create real change.

A life reset doesn’t erase your past. It integrates it. Every challenge becomes insight. Every difficult chapter becomes experience. You’re not starting from nothing. You’re rebuilding from resilience, clarity, and earned wisdom.

If something inside you keeps nudging you forward, listen. That pull isn’t accidental. It’s the signal that your next chapter is ready to be built, one grounded, intentional step at a time

What do I do if my child starts acting out a lot?

When your child begins to act out, it seems like, in a business sense that your child is trying to be a President of the family! Some of that is okay because they are stretching their communication legs to state who they are (or think they are) and what they want from the family structure. Set Rules. The best way to circumvent this behavior from repeating over and over is to set rules within the house and also have a conversation with your ex (if you aren't really on speaking terms, then I propose you use e-mail). This conversation will be about creating the same rules in both homes. With consistency and same rules applying, there is less wiggle room for tantrums and mutiny.

Should I date another single parent?

The great thing about dating another single parent is that they know what it’s like to go through the challenges of parenting alone. I do suggest, however, you spare them your

marriage or divorce horror stories until a relationship has been a little bit established. There’s nothing like scaring off a date more than letting them know how you’ve suffered or what a jerk your ex is...that is a dating no-no for sure! However, dating someone with children is comforting. It is very wise not to introduce your children to your date unless it is in a group or activity setting; and you should not introduce your date to your children one on one until you are very serious about your relationship. Don’t forget, your children have already suffered one loss; it is wise not to set them up for another if you introduce your dates too soon or too often.

Helping Children Through Divorce or Separation 🍋

Navigating the complexities of divorce can be challenging for children. Resources, whether in the form of illustrated storybooks, counseling, or support groups, are dedicated to helping children cope and heal through the emotional journey of divorce. By providing age-appropriate insights and guidance, we aim to empower children to understand and navigate the changes in their family dynamics, fostering a sense of resilience and emotional well-being. These illustrated children's storybooks are crafted to facilitate healing within the entire single-parent family.

Recognizing the importance of including children in the separation or divorce process, these lyrically written and beautifully illustrated books aim to provide a supportive tool for children's healing, ensuring they understand it is not their responsibility to fix or cause the situation. 🍋

Support Your Child’s Emotional Journey 🍋

Children’s Books That Support Healing Through Divorce

Divorce and family transitions can be confusing and emotional for children. These books written by Jodi Seidler offer thoughtfully written, beautifully illustrated children’s storybooks designed to help kids understand change, process big feelings, and feel emotionally safe during divorce or separation.

These age-appropriate stories provide gentle reassurance, helping children understand that family changes are not their fault. Each book supports emotional resilience and healing—not just for children, but for the entire single-parent family—giving parents a compassionate tool to guide their child through life transitions with confidence and care

Stories That Help Kids Heal

These stories are designed to open conversations, ease anxiety, and support healing for children and single-parent families navigating life transitions. Each book offers reassurance, connection, and comfort—helping parents guide their children through change with compassion, honesty, and love. 🍋

Jodi's Books

For single moms, single dads, or co-parenting families 🍋

Our Single Parent Community

We are a supportive space created for parents navigating life after divorce or separation. Connect with other single parents who understand the challenges and victories of raising a family on your own. We share real experiences, ask questions, exchange practical advice, and find encouragement from people who truly get it. You are not alone on this journey—together, we’re building a community that empowers single parents to heal, grow, and move forward with confidence.

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The Single Parent Reset Network

Welcome to the Making Lemonade Reset Single Parent Network 🍋

30 Day Single Parent Reset 🍋

Navigating Single Parenthood: Challenges and Support 🍋

Download our Single Parent Reset Guide 🍋

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