Grip the Rope
Carla J. Curtis
Copyright©/June 2002
As a single parent, I'm sure you sometimes feel inundated with the
myriad of responsibilities that you have to manage on your own. You
work, pay the bills, lend a hand with homework, cook, clean, serve as
a therapist to your children when necessary, while trying to incorporate
some type of social activities into your life. These are some, but not
all of the everyday jobs and activities that you manage alone as a single
parent. In being the head of your household, there probably have been
times when you've whispered to yourself or even repeated this expression
vocally, "Boy, I'm at the End of my Rope." Trust me, if you
haven't thought or repeated these words, one day you most likely will
because being a single parent can at times be very tiring, to say the
least.
Although this choice of words might have come into your mind on more
than one occasion, at least it has for me; I am here to encourage you
to merely "Grip the Rope." In other words, hold on and don't
throw in the towel just yet. At this very moment, you might be saying
to yourself, "What does she mean hold on, I'm drained - simply
tired of being tired?" Yes, I do empathize with you, as I have
been on this journey of single parenting for many years. And, since
you are reading this article in its entirety - and I do thank you for
doing so -- then you, too, are making it, even if you are just pooped
at this very moment.
While your journey in life sometimes probably seems overwhelming, remember
to "Grip the Rope" and you will, indeed, survive.
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