Call You and Yours: What was your first Christmas like as a single parent? email YouandYours@bbc.co.uk
Christmas can be daunting if you are a single parent. Tell us what your first one was like by emailing YouandYours@bbc.co.uk
Call You & Yours asks: What was your first Christmas like as a single parent?
Whether you're divorced, widowed, or chose single parenthood; if you have the children, or don't have the children, or you are the children - Christmas in a single parent family can be daunting.
You might feel everyone else is looking forward to days of family festivities with partners, parents and children. But despite wanting to make it perfect, you can end up feeling like you're giving less than what children in a nuclear family get.
Today we want to hear how you're managing it, and what you've learned since your first.
Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Winifred Robinson
Produced by Natalie Donovan