As a single parent, how do you cope when you get sick?

ADVICE:search for community and family support so you do not “go it alone”. I learned having more supportive relationships in my life when times were hard fare better than just going with it because I had to. Social support when sick will help you through the hardships. read more

It is tough to be a single parent. I was one for nine years with no help at all from anyone. I think when you know you have to do it and you don't have a choice you just do it and make it work. That is not to say that it is easy I used to cry myself to sleep all the time. You just take what life hands you and roll with the punches. read more

Sick of the sick day cycle, Patti and Terry Fitzgerald, parents of four from Peterborough, Ont., decided to do something radical: Terry quit his job as a shift manager to stay home when the kids were young. “Yes, we could have called family, but the hard thing is you want to be at home with your sick child,” says Patti. read more