Aug 16, 2026 · 22 min · 12 segments
**Positive Parenting 101** features **“Single Parenting: The Hardest Job,”** a heartfelt exploration of the strength, sacrifice, and resilience required to raise children alone. This episode examines…
Karen DeloachHost
Daniel LikasHost
for this topic because I did get to spend time as a second at home and it's the toughest job.
So we're here to appreciate you and give you some advice and some counsel and some total commiserations for the hardness of the job.
Definitely being a parent is the hardest thing to do because we don't have a manual.
We will teach us to our children too, which if our parents did something wrong with us, it will carry us from our generations to generations to come.
I don't understand why our children can't just figure out and follow our good things.
But, you know, as Daniel is describing, these are things that really, really are particularly tough when you're single parenting.
You know, it's easy, and I hope that if you have any single parents in your life, that you will reach out and just say, can I help you anything? Is there anything I can do to sell you or to babysit or to do some shopping for you? Whatever, because along the way, when there have been people who reached out to me in that season of single parenting, it made such a huge difference.
There are, and not just single moms, there are single dads too, that are raising their children without the presence of a partner.
And as Daniel is describing, it doesn't come with a job manual on the job training.
Whatever worked for the first one isn't necessarily going to work for the second one or the third one or however many children you end up with.
for this topic because I did get to spend time as a second at home and it's the toughest job.
So we're here to appreciate you and give you some advice and some counsel and some total commiserations for the hardness of the job.
Definitely being a parent is the hardest thing to do because we don't have a manual.
We will teach us to our children too, which if our parents did something wrong with us, it will carry us from our generations to generations to come.
I don't understand why our children can't just figure out and follow our good things.
But, you know, as Daniel is describing, these are things that really, really are particularly tough when you're single parenting.
You know, it's easy, and I hope that if you have any single parents in your life, that you will reach out and just say, can I help you anything? Is there anything I can do to sell you or to babysit or to do some shopping for you? Whatever, because along the way, when there have been people who reached out to me in that season of single parenting, it made such a huge difference.
There are, and not just single moms, there are single dads too, that are raising their children without the presence of a partner.
And as Daniel is describing, it doesn't come with a job manual on the job training.
Whatever worked for the first one isn't necessarily going to work for the second one or the third one or however many children you end up with.
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