Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom [Paperback]

Michele Howe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1999

When the reality of separation, divorce, or widowhood sinks in, encountering life as a single mother can be an overwhelming experience. Share in the stories of other single moms who have faced past hurts, dealt with present fears, and built a future of promise, while they contended with life's everyday pressures. Through the pages of this practical book, Michele Howe offers sensitive, compassionate advice for women who are confronting the challenge of being a single mom. Be encouraged; with God's help, hope and healing are not only possible, but promised.

Topics include:• Helping children cope• Strengthening family identity• Raising a masculine son in a house of females• Caring for children with special needs• Creating balance in every area of life, despite burdensome and exhausting situations• Returning to the workforce

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"Michele Howe has given wise counsel to any single parent, and for that matter, any parent. You'll find in this honest book practical ideas, identification with your struggle, and encouraging words. After reading it, you'll have hope! You can make it, and Michele tells you how."
—Kathy Collard Miller, Author and Editor -- Review

Michele Howe has given wise counsel to any single parent, and for that matter, any parent. You'll find in this honest book practical ideas, identification with your struggle, and encouraging words. After reading it, you'll have hope! You can make it, and Michele tells you how.

Kathy Collard Miller, Author and Editor -- Book endorsement

About the Author

Michele Howe is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, an author, a youth leader, and a mother. She makes her home in LaSalle, Michigan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565634527
• ISBN-13: 978-1565634527
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,155,505 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michele Howe is a reviewer for Publishers Weekly, FaithfulReader.com, Retailers + Resources, Foreword Magazine, TeenReads.com, KidReads.com, among many others national and international publications. She has published over 1300 reviews/articles and has been featured on numerous radio shows across the country speaking on topics such as parenting and a diverse range of women's health issues. Her work has been published in MORE, FIRST for Women, Good Housekeeping, SheKnows.com, BettyConfidential, HelloWorld, Christianity Today, Discipleship Journal, Midwest Living, Parentlife, Fullfill, Christian Single, Single Parent Family, Focus on the Family, and Connections. She also does copywriting and manuscript reviewing for several publishing houses including New Growth Press.

Michele is the author of eleven books for women. Her book, "Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom" (Hendrickson Publishers), provided hope and practical helps for single moms new to parenting solo. She has also authored "Pilgrim Prayers for Single Mothers" (Pilgrim Press) and a third book of helps for single mothers titled, "Successful Single Moms" (Pilgrim Press.) In addition to these resources for single mothers, Michele wrote four separate titles combining real life stories with inspirational prayer retreats. These titles published by (Jossey-Bass) include: "Prayers for Homeschooling Moms," "Prayers to Nourish a Woman's Heart," "Prayers of Comfort and Strength" and "Prayers for New and Expecting Moms."

Her newest books include a follow-up resource to "Going It Alone" titled, "Still Going It Alone: Mothering with Faith and Finesse Once the Children Have Grown" (Hendrickson Publishers) and "Burdens Do a Body Good: Meeting Life's Challenges with Strength and Soul" co-authored with orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Christopher A. Foetisch (Hendrickson Publishers). Just published, "Prescription for Life: Making Meaningful Choices, Building a Healthy Life" also co-authored with Dr. Foetisch and upon which Michele bases her new weekly radio health segment of the same name.

In addition to her article and books writing, Michele writes a weekly women's lifestyle and single parenting column at Bizymoms and contributes to the health column on BlissfullyDomestic.com. She is also featured in the new Single & Parenting Resource Video Series as a parenting expert. In line with her passion for working with single parents, Michele's resources offer encouragement to women of all ages by challenging them to exercise their combination of strengths, skills, and life wisdom in pursuit of a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle. Recognizing that life is often difficult, women can learn how to recognize (and find solace in) significant life-markers and by so doing, acquire the strength to embrace their daily challenges.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom, July 14, 2000

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Ann Kroeker (Carmel, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom (Paperback)

Michele Howe has drawn from the insight of single moms dealing firsthand with a broad range of issues to create _Going It Alone_. In her warm, understanding tone, Howe has given readers an excellent resource packaged in a quick read. She offers hope and vision for building confidence in one's single parenting situation, tackling such sensitive issues as sex education and blending families as well as finding personal fulfillment. Readers will appreciate the plentiful resources found in each chapter and in the appendix. After reading _Going It Alone_, you'll feel you're NOT alone at all: The single moms profiled in the book as well as Michele Howe herself will seem to be friends and fellow travelers along this tough road. An excellent book for any mom facing single parenting!

22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, February 21, 2006

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A. K. Oakley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom (Paperback)

You know, I was disappointed in this book. I read the reviews and thought it was going to be great, but it wasn't. This book is geared towards women who are older and have been married a long time, mostly stay-at-home-moms, who found themselves, all of a sudden, divorced and forced to go out and work. I recommend it for those women; not for younger, single moms. Young single moms who are already working full time jobs & raising children know the stuff in this book already.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical hope, September 15, 2000

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donnie meyers (Temperance, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom (Paperback)

This book provides single moms with upbeat, hopeful, and simple ideas to help better parent their children through times of crisis as well at the ups and downs of everyday life. Although it's targeted at the single mother, married moms and dads will find sound biblical advice from the beginning to end. Going It Alone helps single moms realize they're not alone at all!