Single Parenting Across the Long Arc: Children's Stages, Major Changes, and Your Own Life

Single parenting across years requires sustained attention to children's stages, major life changes, and your own life beyond parenting. This applied course teaches that integration through case-based modules. By the end of this course you will be able to adapt parenting across children's stages, navigate major life changes thoughtfully, sustain your own life and relationships, and plan for the transitions that come with children becoming young adults. What you will learn: - Approaches to single parenting across infant, school-age, teen, and young adult stages - Approaches to major life changes including job changes, relocation, and new partners - Approaches to dating and new relationships including timing and child considerations - Approaches to your own social and creative life beyond parenting - Approaches to handling specific challenges including illness or financial setbacks - Approaches to the transition into the empty nest period - Approaches to sustaining your own well-being and identity across years The course is structured around six applied modules. Each produces a written artifact: a developmental approach update, a major changes plan, a dating reflection, a beyond-parenting plan, a specific challenges framework, and a long-term reflection. This course is written for single parents thinking across the long arc. By the end you will have moved from week-to-week survival to a sustained practice that holds both for your children and for the rest of your life.