Motherhood: "The hardest job you will ever love!"
Philosophy: Through shared experiences, we believe women can learn and support each other while having fun!
Vision: While respecting the difference of each others' families, we can grow together.
Meetings: The club meets once a month. We will also have date nights, cooking classes, book clubs, charity work, play dates, and walking groups.
Suggested Meeting Topics: Nutrition, Vaccines, Child Development, Making Your Own Baby Food, Fashion, Skin Care, Interior Design, Personal Finance, Infant Massage, Love & Logic, Prenatal Care & Fitness, Marriage & Relationships, First Aid & Safety, Children's Literacy, Entertaining, Holiday & Children's Crafts, Gift Ideas, etc.
What To Think About For Each Meeting: Some of the meeting will take place in another location and will not be a standard meeting. For example, our September meeting will be our first "Date Night." For a standard meeting, please consider the following:
(Keep in mind, these are simply suggestions and we are not asking that you bring one from each category. Contribute as much as you wish! )
1. Gift Swap-Do you have a gift at home that someone else might find more useful? Bring it for our gift swap!
2. Pay It Forward-Have you read a really great article recently or any form of information that you would like to share with the group? If so, bring 20 copies to share at our next meeting!
3. Hot Tips-Have you heard of any fun fund raisers, cooking classes or any "Hot Tip" you want to post on our bulletin board to share with the group? If so, bring your tip with you to our meeting!
4. Idea Swap: Depending on the topic, it would be great if each guest brought an idea to share for our group conversation. Get your ideas down on paper and bring it along with you to the meeting to present to the group. If possible, make 20 copies to share or just bring your original and we can distribute copies for you at our next meeting.
Organizers: Amy & Danielle
About the Organizers: Danielle is a stay at home mom with three sons and a daughter. Amy is a part-time teacher with two sons. Both woman have bachelors and masters degrees in education.
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4 comments:
When my 3 year old has fits at home we basically tell her i am not listening to this and walk away. She usually stops when she sees she cant win. NOW when we are out, things play out slightly different. In public I usually tell her to stop or else, (not sure yet what “or else” means but it seems to work) If it gets to bad I pick her up and we leave wherever we are at. When we get home I explain how that behavior was wrong and she gets a time out. Luckily the tantrums when we are out are rare. Worst one ever was when she was about 18 months at Max and Erma’s she screamed so loud people we looking and rolling their eyes. I got up to take her out and she went limp and laid on the floor screaming. SO I picked her up by her arm and walked out with her to the car. SO EMBARASSING.
KIM
In the love and logic book they recommend "rating" the tantrums. I have tried that approach on the twins and it seems to work. Even in public I do it in a softer tone and usually the kids give me a bad look and then go about doing something else. We also will ignore them and that seems to work as well. Each situation is different.
Similar to Kim, we were at a resturant O'Charley's eating and the twins were full of it. If it wasn't one, it was the other. This is before I finished the L&L book, so I wasn't doing that technique yet. I tried ignoring and no such luck. They both kept yelling, trying to color on the wall and table, etc. So I took them both out of the high chair and we went for a walk. I made some remark to the table behind us and luckily they just laughed. The other table had twin newborns...so I just thought to myself...look what you are in for. After removing them from the situation for a bit, they were more willing to sit and behave...but we stuffed our mouths as fast as we could so we could get out of there.
Kara, I do think twins may be a bit harder in the tantrum department. Do you ever notice if one is upset...the other one becomes upset as well. It goes in the other direction too. If one is laughing, the other one joins in!
Tantrums have been a challenge for us. We are working on it and it does seem to be getting better. However, I don't have any suggestions. We are also reading L&L. I am finding it really helpful in other areas...but not so much in the tanturm department.
Danielle
I have been very fortunate not to have any public tantrums...however she turns two next week, so we'll see.
I have had a few occassions in Target or the grocery story where she'll get excited and loud- I have resorted to grabbing a bag of goldfish or something similar off the shelf and bribing her while I finish shopping...usually works:)
I also found that a lot of grocery stores will do things to keep kids happy. For example, Hillers will give kids free balloons in the floral dept. and a free cookie from the bakery... she enjoys those... and the balloon is such a fun thing to play with.
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