Monthly Archives: March 2016

Play Dates are Happy and Healthy 

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Most moms are busy!

Which explains why I haven’t posted in weeks, I’m still finding my balance!

I mean life mainly revolves around your child and you fit everything else around them,right? However, I have not met a working mom or for that matter a stay a home mom that isn’t busy and doesn’t have to put in that extra effort to meet up with other moms for play dates.

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If you’ve read any other post of mine you may already know that I work full time. So for that reason, time in the evenings and weekends with my growing baby are especially  precious. This is true for me and my hubby. During the dreaded time that I returned to work I secretly promised myself that I would take time off whenever possible and at least once per month  for play dates and meet-ups with other moms and kiddos even if it meant during my work week. So in addition to our weekends, I intentionally take off during the workweek for playtime of some sort with my little. I like my career but I love my family, so for that, play dates  are a happy place for me as much as they are for my baby.

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If you work how do you make time for play dates? If you are a SAHM, your life is still busy, what ways do you manage to schedule this socialization time for you and your little one?

How to handle “mini-fits” in the early stages

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^ I have no clue

Seriously!! You could not have told me that a 11 month old can have a mini-tantrum and I believe you. We started noticing her personality flourishing for some time now but the side of MJ that she doesn’t always show is when she doesn’t like something. I don’t know what the road ahead of me will be like and the challenge I have is knowing what discipline looks like at this age. So I choose to redirect and repeat.

What seems to work right now is redirecting her attention, and repeating that as often as necessary. I talk to her in between and use a tone that’s serious but not “mean”. I am so torn…my little baby is growing up and I think this is all too soon. My fear is that if I don’t pick up a style of how to parent her during her times of mini-fits that I will wake up 1 day to a full blown tantrum. Is this inevitable?

Help me out mama’s, what do you recall doing to help teach right and wrong and combat the fall outs? I wish I could catch her on video but she will even break her back as if she is going to fall out of your hands or if she is on the floor she turns around in circles, while fussing because she is upset that you took something out of her hand. Lord help me. I wasn’t ready!!

 

XOXO- Risa