Oh, my. This has been a rough week in my single parent home.
My eighteen-year-old daughter has been writing college application essays like crazy. She also has finals this week. She also had multiple varsity soccer games to play. My thirteen-year-old son had quizzes and tests. And a band concert.
They’re only with me halftime, but it [...]
It’s the holiday season, and holiday greeting cards are arriving in my mailbox.
Besides the Christmas and New Years cards, I get a good number of photo greeting cards and cards with year-end recaps.
It’s my one time of year to learn all the exotic places friends traveled, impressive talents learned by their kids, etc.
I used to [...]
When children and divorce are concerned, the holidays take on a very different flavor. For instance, the other day my son asked if we’d be roasting a chicken for Thanksgiving.
“Is that what you want?” I asked.
“Yeah!” he said. “With roasted potatoes and yams. Like we made two years ago.”
That exchange might sound strange for someone [...]
Over Thanksgiving Manhattan cocktails, my brother told a story from my daughter’s early childhood. Seems we were eating at Fish Market in Palo Alto, a restaurant where kids are given a handful of crayons to draw pictures, play hangman, and generally amuse themselves while dinner cooks.
The cool thing about this restaurant – rather than a [...]
The holidays can be a weird time for singles on the dating scene. With holiday shopping, and holiday parties, and holiday hanging out with friends, there’s way more going on than usual, and not enough time to do it all.
Some singles go into hibernation, taking themselves off the market so they can deal with the [...]
David Mott is a divorced single father of a teen daughter and son offering stories, tips and opinions on single parenting, coparenting children, two-home families, cooking, cocktails, self awareness - and relationships formed in an age of online dating, text messaging, and booty calls.
David Mott has appeared on ABC News Now video, CNN.com, CBS radio Los Angeles, Toronto Globe & Mail, McClatchy News syndication
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