Single Parenting

Single Parenting


Evangelist Aleacha Sweeting

As overwhelming as the responsibilities of single motherhood are at times, the love between mother and child can overshadow the negative or challenging times... I speak from experience when I said being a single mother can be one of the most difficult challenges any parent can have to deal with, it doesn’t matter your age, sizes, race or even financial status, no one wants to raise their children by themselves, no one want to have that full responsibility of raising a child (dren) without both parents.

For me I can truly say it has not been easy and having a son now fifteen does not get any easier. Not only do I have to raise my son but I have to deal with the challenges of him being a teenager. While I can compare my life and what my needs were as a teenager, I still cannot tell what a teenage boy deepest feeling are because the fact is, I am not a man.

As a single parent we do it all. We cook, drop our kids to school, pick them up, clean up after them, stay up with them at nights and if they are sick we nurse them. We teach them and help with homework. We spend time with them, teaching them the small things and life. We sometimes teach them to ride a bike. We support them fully making sure that even if we don’t eat our child (dren) never goes to bed hungry and making sure they always have clothes on their backs. Showing up to every school event to support our children and teaching them and most of all teaching them Godly principles is also important. While we teach our children Godly principles, steer them in the right direction and mold them into being an adult, the truth is a woman can never truly mold her son into being a man. This is why it is important for us as single mothers with sons especially to find that strong male figure that we know to assist in raising our son(s). It maybe a grandfather, uncle, brother, men in the church, neighbor, or whomever you can trust. It is great to have a male figure in your child’s life on occasion. This can help reinforce your parenting as well, and like myself, if you have a son, they tend to relate to that male figure on a better level.

I know it is hard being a single parent but I say this to you…God has great plans for each of our kids. These plans were created long before the earth was spoken into existence. And God also knew before we did that we would have to raise our kids on our own depending on him for His help and direction. Our kids will be something great when they grow up, and all for the glory of God. Nothing happens by Chance and as hard as it may seem now, our experiences are from God. Trust God and watch as our Children Grow up to be just what God has called them to be.

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.