Tichina Arnold writes a blog on Essence.com called Tales of a Hollywood Mom. Here's an excerpt from her latest entry:
Tonight, for 20 minutes, I had to listen to Alijah cry herself to sleep to the chant of "I want my daddy!" These are the nights that I wish never existed, but unfortunately do! It's the challenging and heartbreaking side of single mommyhood.
I'm getting sick of hearing MYSELF give her the same reply, "Ok baby, but daddy is not here, we will call him tomorrow. Now go to sleep". I can see her little wheels in her head just turning as if she's about to say: "You say that all the time; she has not said it yet but she is starting to figure out that (for now) daddy is NEVER going to be there when she wants or cries for him.
It's just another single mommy issue that I have to deal with "head on" when the time comes...and it's coming faster than I expected.
I'm realizing that unfortunately in due time...SHE'S going to have to face the reality that her dad is just not as available as she might like for him to be.
One of my first embarrassing wake up calls to being a single mom, was when I picked Alijah up from Pre-School one day, and the teacher said that Alijah held on to the leg of ANOTHER students dad and said "I want you to be my daddy!".
Read the rest of Tichina's blog here
