This is a guest post that is really helpful for single parents who wants to date again or is dating and wants the child/ children to be involved with the new partner. 

Starting a new relationship as a single parent can sometimes feel a little awkward, and unless you have very close friends in the same situation, it can be hard to find people to look to for advice and support. It is important to remember that the reason you will have wanted to start a new relationship in the first place is to improve the quality of your personal life. It is your happiness that is the most important factor when starting a new relationship.

Although it can be tough on the kids and you may feel unsure whether they are ready to accept a new person into their family life, remember that your happiness will have an overall effect on how you interact with your children and the happiness you will feel from a comfortable and supportive relationship will have a great positive effects on your children too, whether they realise this or not.

Getting the balance right between what you want and what your children want is important. The key to successfully introducing your partner to your children with minimum disruption is to plan ahead to get the timings right. Make sure you are certain someone is going to stick around before you introduce them to your children otherwise the task of explaining why they haven’t come back could be next on your list.

Educating your children a little about relationships can help them to understand what’s going on. For example, if you were part of a culture of arranged marriages such as Muslim marriages, and your arranged marriage didn’t work, your children may find it hard to understand why you want to meet new people without the help of others. Telling your children why you like someone too can help them to feel friendly towards your new partner when you finally do meet. If you met your new partner on a site like http://www.eharmony.co.uk you will be able to show your children a photograph of him or her, and a list of the things that they like doing. This will help your children find something in common with your new partner too.

Arrange a moment out with all of you – even if it’s a short trip in the car to the grocery store together or you and your new partner pick your child up from their school together – this will show your children that you trust your partner and can spend time with them and your child together with no favouritism, it will also show your children that your new partner likes to get involved with day to day family life too. This is a much better way to introduce the children to your partner for the first time instead of them coming straight round to your home where the children may feel territorial or that your partner is intruding.

Patience is the key, and the right partner will be patience with you and your children as they slowly become part of your new, happier life.

There is a ritual in the house, that involves him and Freddie Mercury, yes the British musician, songwriter and singer. Almost every Sunday, he would sit on the computer and test his speakers and starts playing FM songs. Usually he would play songs from the live performances. And most of the time the speaker is on high volume. Now, I do mind that, because I am not a fan of loud music, not that I am saying FM music are loud, I mean I don’t enjoy music on high volume. I wish we can afford a really nice entertainment for room, perfect fr listening to music or even to high volume music or maybe we can set a  presonus studiolive studio where he can play and mix all the music and performances that he likes. Anyways, it would still be a few more days before Sunday so I still have some quiet time left. Come Sunday, I will have to wear my earphones.

There were nights that we love to drive around the city and buy or favorite coffee drink. I really enjoy those times as those were the times that we can be alone. We usually drive when the kids are already asleep. And I often see Car Shipping trucks on the road when we drive around. I wonder where they came from (maybe from the pier) and where they are going (maybe to their branches in the eastern part of the metro).

My curiosity peak when we saw about 10 trucks shipping cars and decided it’s about time to research about these big guys. I learned that one of the main reason why companies used shipping trucks fort heir cars is to save on gas. On the Shipping Information there will be 6-8 cars on the truck. Imagine if the cars will travel instead, that would be so much gas in compare to one big truck that can ship multiple cars.

And because most of this cars are brand new and for sale, shipping it with the use of truck is safer. The cars is scratch safe and accident safe.