5 Things Never to Say to a Dating Single Mom

February 14, 2014

OMG Have you tried online dating? YES! Chances are she and every other breathing single woman have tried online freakin dating. There’s nothing groundbreaking about online dating, people. I mean, it’s basically old news. Instead of throwing her online, throw her a man. You know someone. Your husband knows someone. Someone knows someone your single mom friend can go on a single, uno, one date with—it’s not like…

Single mom Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's acclaimed Storked! blog where she spilled it about navigating an unplanned pregnancy and single motherhood minus her son's father. You can also find her witty (and often controversial blogs) on parenting.com, babble.com and Nickmom.com A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First for Women, In Touch, Parenting, Baby Talk, and Parents among other publications and notable websites. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on ABC's 20/20. Coppa and her son represented the Yoplait Kids brand in 2011. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic, 6 who is currently campaigning for a Golden Retriever puppy.