From left to right: Me (Julie), Jenny, Achint and Linda At our last central Auckland meeting, we adults came up with a few ideas that we think will benefit the group. We considered how we have 3 areas with monthly meetings and still need to set up Sth Auckland. By the way, a little birdie told [...] [...]

Me, Linda, Tina and Peter went out last night for the Mid Winter Party that turned out to be a 5th Anniversary Party for Chrissy and Kevin. They are a lovely couple who are in love today as the day they got married. It turned out to be a good crowd of about 40 guests [...] [...]

We had our AGM Sunday 25th July 2010. Generally, we are a social group giving single parents the opportunity to mix with other single parents and their families. Yet, we also understand how tough ‘doing life’ can be as well as understand there are lots of good things to learn about from parenting to [...] [...]

I’m a bit stuck on how to approach this post since I haven”t written anything for over a week. It wasn’t how I wanted our first week of the holidays to be but I’m not disappointed because our group is progressing and every step we take is one we don’t have to take again. Events [...] [...]

Chantelle’s Children It was only months ago when I received an email from a single mother who was moving to Tauranga and wanted to start a single parent support group. Little did I know how serious she was and how far she would get in such a short time. That ‘she’ is Chantelle Campbell and what [...] [...]

The word “euthanasia” comes straight out of the Greek — “eu”, goodly or well + “thanatos”, death = the good death — and for 18th-century writers in England that was what euthanasia meant, a “good” death, a welcome way to depart quietly and well from life. Euthanasia today refers, for example, to the situation when a [...] [...]

You may not be following all the noise about single parents on the DPB, so I thought I’d give you a run down in my own words and if you’re interested, please add some words of your own. “Presently nearly 13% aged between 18 – 64 years of age are on benefits which represents 11.6 [...] [...]

Thanks to Yvie for this. A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 8oz. to 20oz. The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. “If I [...] [...]

I don’t think I could have spent today any better than I did! It really is a blast attending monthly support meetings. Firstly, thank-you to those who emailed me to let me know they couldn’t make it because their children are sick. It wasn’t the best day weather-wise and I hope you can attend next [...] [...]