Hello Nottingham Mummies,
We were talking on www.netmums.com about Mother and Baby/Toddler groups, and I promised to make you a Group Testing Chart to help you focus on how well each group meets rather than on your own lack of confidence. Mums, dads, grandparents and childminders all need a confidence boost sometimes.
Find out where the toddler groups and children's activities are in your area.
The library is a good place to start, so is www.childrenslink.org.uk
Click here for more useful links to mother and baby/toddler groups
Make a Group Testing Chart
List all of the groups you can find on to your chart.
Decide what you need from a group.
Commit yourself to testing out each group. Your Group Testing Chart will be personal to you.
Take your Group Testing Chart to each group. Tick off the things that are good about each group and keep the things you don't like to yourself for now.
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Highbury Vale Community Centre Toddler Group, Brooklyn Road, Bulwell |
New Tots on the Block, Bestwood Park Church, Elmbridge |
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I need to be welcomed as soon as I go through the door |
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I need someone to smile at me/talk to me |
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I need to know where I can put my pushchair.
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I need to know where I can change my baby's nappy and where to put the soiled nappy.
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I can start a conversation with someone who is on their own |
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I can support another mum/carer who has more than one child to keep an eye on |
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I can show someone around who is new to my area
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I can set a good example to my child by helping to tidy up |
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Group Testing Chart courtesy of ProCEEd early years consultancy. Visit us www.proceedc.com |
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| You can adapt the chart however you like and use it freely with my compliments. Why not start today?
Your Group Testing Chart will become a talking point and people will probably want to copy your idea - that is good. Someone once said that copying is the highest form of compliment. The best thing is that while you are busy with your list your child will be playing and your confidence will be increasing by itself.
Let me know if you found the chart useful.
Click here for Nottingham Childminders
Pushymothers click here | 
