ParentZone
Single-parent resource center
The ParentZone provides helpful videos and articles to assist you on your single-parenting journey. Uplifting messages encourage you. Inspiring articles written from personal experience guide you.
You are not alone on your single-parenting journey. You will come to realize through many of these resources that others have survived and raised healthy, well-adjusted children and that there is hope for you too.
Helpful videos on single-parenting
1–5-minute videos for successful single parenting
Blog articles
Children and divorce
Kids & Divorce blog – search by topic
Single-parenting tips
- Surviving in a Crisis
- Parenting Your Active, ADD, ADHD, or Whirlwind Child
- Single Parents Come in Three Distinct Stages
- Single Parents Come in Three Stages, Stage 1
- Single Parents Come in Three Stages, Stage 2
- Single Parents Come in Three Stages, Stage 3
- Power struggle with kids
- Start new rituals with your kids
- Hug your kids often
Vacation and holidays
- 10 Tips While Kids Are Away
- Ease Your Child’s Stress During the Holidays
- Summer Vacations Are Hard on Kids
- Why Children Feel Guilty During the Holidays
- Family Vacation When You Have to Work
- Reasons Why Children Get Angry During the Holidays
- Celebrating Christmas in Single-Parent Homes
- Helping Children Through the Holidays
- Celebrating the Holidays with Your Ex?
Tips to minimize the effects of divorce on your kids
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Free DC4K Parent Pages
These pages are part of the weekly DC4K program. Download to find out how you can support your children as they attend DC4K. If your kids are not part of DC4K, find a DC4K group near you!
- Session 1: What’s Happening to My Family?
- Session 2: God Loves Children in All Kinds of Families
- Session 3: Facing My Anger
- Session 4: Journey from Anger to Sadness
- Session 5: I Am Not Alone
- Session 6: God’s Plan for Me
- Session 7: Developing New Relationships
- Session 8: Developing Money Smarts
- Session 9: It’s Not My Fault
- Session 10: Telling My Parents How I Feel
- Session 11: Forgiveness
- Session 12: Loving My Parents
- Session 13: Moving On: Growing UP and Closer to God
Kids’ support
DC4K is a 13-week, faith-based, kid-friendly group with hands-on interaction and support for kids ages 5–12 whose parents are separated or divorced.
Find a DC4K group in your area