Single parents successful at work – short stories: Brigid
“Hi my name is Brigid and I’m a single mum of four amazing children; ages from 17-3 years old. Getting a job was never the hard part for me but finding a job with a balance of suitable working hours around my four children’s huge [...]
Scotland – Short Stories of famous “successful” single parents
J.K. Rowling "I had imagined that I would be back at work fast. Indeed, it was because I expected to be employed outside of the home again that I was working so hard to finish the children’s novel I never told anyone I was writing [...]
Famous Irish Single Parents and Sharing Parenting
Grainne Seoige, broadcaster Grainne Seoige gives her most revealing interview. As a single mother, she started her broadcasting career in Teilifis na Gaeilge, now TG4; always putting her son first and getting through with the help of her steadfast Galway parents. Nobody’s ever going to [...]
Ava talks about low self-esteem, lacking confidence & feeling isolated.
"I came to Ireland for a better life but the experience I had was quite the opposite of that. When I lived in Nigeria, I was a happy, open, caring, kind, confident and a friendly person. By the time I got here, I was not [...]
Katherine talks about returning to work and challenging negative perceptions attached to single parenting.
"I had been working when I became pregnant and after my child was born I made the decision to return to work straight after, it wasn’t an easy decision. I think every mother would find it difficult to leave their child, but it was the [...]
Melissa talks about the struggles of parenting and becoming a “proud warrior mother”.
"As a single parent pretty much from the early months of pregnancy, I have endured and managed the past ten years pretty much on my own. I was told by a very dear friend of mine in the early days that I would become a [...]