February 24th, 2005
We Had Our First Meeting
» motherhood
We finally had our first playgroup meeting this morning. It was a small group consisting of only 5 mommies and 7 children, but I think the kids quite enjoyed meeting each other. All the other mommies were such friendly and amiable people. At first, I was quite worried that they might have very high expectation and would like the playgroup to function like those commercial playgroup designed with lots of structure learning activities. Ah, turn out they are happy to do some simple singing sessions or walking in the park or just let the kids play among themselves. Nice company!
Although one of our guidelines stated that we shan’t make comparison between the kids, but it is really difficult not too. I shall secretly make one here. Yauyau was such a whiney baby. The moment I was out of her sight, or when she sensed that I was gone, she started complaining. That was one of the primary reasons why I really need to get this playgroup started, she has to meet more people, learn to mingle, understand that mama is always around somewhere and the others will not eat her up.
We have decided to meet on Thursday at 10am in future. The hosting issue has not been finalised, because we really couldn’t decide if we (those staying at my estate) are willing to travel to Holland or Bt Timah area for rotation hosting. I am sort of lazy to move around, but I am fine with it too. Anyway, it would be at our estate until we finally got bored of it and decides to move somewhere else. Do drop me a note if you are keen to join us.




February 25th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
Congratulations on the start of your group!The one I started is pretty much the same - with the babies about 12 months or younger, there really isn’t much to do other than sing songs and play. The one problem we do have is attendance. I have about 8 or 9 mothers and babies in our group (and a few spare who will join in only once in a while due to various reasons), but we can only get about 4 or 5 moms and babies each time because people always have something on. It’s still early days and I expect people will drop out and new people to join. Good luck to yours!