ENCOURAGING SINGLE PARENTS

  • Pray for them
  • Pray with them
  • Be a Safe Person for them (Read the book: Safe People by Townsend & Cloud)
  • Be a good friend
  • Acknowledge their ability to juggle responsibilities successfully
  • Help them think through and develop a budget and financial plan
  • Loan them books that encourage
  • Treat them to lunch or dinner
  • Help them with their child/children
  • Offer them a voucher for an hour or two of childcare, housecleaning, etc.
  • Take them on a vacation with you
  • Send them random notes of encouragement
  • Invite them and their children out to a restaurant to dinner
  • Invite the children to go to the zoo, library, etc.
  • Include them and their children in your family activities
  • Include them in your family holiday activities
  • Mow their yard
  • Help them with home and auto repairs and maintenance
  • Take a home-cooked meal to them periodically
  • Be one of their balcony people (Read the book: Balcony People by Joyce Landor Heatherly)
If you have ideas that are not listed on this page, please email us your ideas here
MORE IDEAS TO ENCOURAGE:
Encouraging Children
Encouraging Missionaries
Encouraging New Christians
Encouraging People in Stressful Situations
Encouraging Seniors
Encouraging Spouses
Encouraging Unbelievers
Encouraging the Unfaithful
Encouraging Youth
Encouraging the Terminally Ill
Encouraging Singles
Encouraging the Homeless
Encouraging Single Parents
Encouraging Those Struggling Financially
Encouraging Those in the Loss of a Loved One
Encouraging Widows & Widowers
​Encouraging Those in the Loss of a Job
Encouraging in the Loss of a Relationship
Encouraging in the Loss of a Pet

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