Next Chapter Meeting

Thursday * April 10, 2008 7:30-8:30

American Mothers, Inc. of Utah Valley Presents

Lynnae Allred

Author of

Piggyback Rides and Slippery Slides - How to have fun raising first-rate children

 

Lynnae will lead a 30 minute discussion during our monthly chapter meeting on having FUN as mothers!

Feel free to bring a copy of her book to be signed.

 

Power of Positive Parenting

Our topic of discussion for this month is “Having Positive Interactions with our Children.” We will focus on Chapter 3 of the book (begins on page 37), mainly rules 1, 3, and 5. Also, review pages 372-373 (Seize opportunities to have frequent positive interactions). Practice this skill and bring your experiences to share! We are thinking POSITIVE this month!

 

**Don’t worry if you don’t have the book… anyone can participate and gain from the discussion and ideas shared!

Pre-Meeting Social

 

Come early for a pre-meeting social at 7:00 for those who like extra time to share ideas and build friendships. We will also be planning our May 10^th Event, “Honoring Motherhood” to select nominees for Utah Mother and Utah Young Mother of the year for 2009. Then at 7:30 we’ll start with our pledge and 15 minutes of Positive Parenting.

Celebrating Motherhood (with our daughters)

For our February 2008 Chapter meeting, we brought our daughters to enjoy a discussion on what we love about being mothers!

February 2008 Meeting Service

We are doing meeting service with our daughters this month through the on-line site, Hugs and Hope for Children, “Making a difference for sick kids one smile at a time.”

“Happy Mail” Wanted!

From their site: “Children fighting for their lives have very little to smile about. You can change that by sending them some “Happy Mail.” Cheery cards give these kids a few more smiles, a little more hope, and a reason to get out of bed each day.

Experience the satisfaction of making a sick child’s day and giving them something to look forward to. Send a card and a hug — one of the smiles you create just might be your own!”

February’s Power of Positive Parenting

I have scoured the Glenn Latham Positive Parenting Book and not found any chapter specific to getting your children to listen and obey. SO! Here is my hare-brained plan. We will still have our discussion be about “Listening and Obeying,” but we will apply the principles wehave learned from Dr. Latham to our problem and see if we can solve it without his help! Let’s see if the past year’s worth of lessons have had an impact — can we solve our parenting problems without looking them up in his book? Can we take the knowledge we have gained and use it in our own dilemmas? Now is the test! If anyone wants to discuss this online here in advance of the February meeting, feel free to do so! Ask a question if you have one, or offer unsolicited advice if you have some! Have fun with this! I’ll post another reminder about the topic as we get closer to our meeting.

Happy Winter, all!
Ingrid Sorensen

Utah Young Mother of the Year 2008

Next Chapter Meeting

January 10th, 7-8:30pm Provo Library. Enter on the west side and look for signs directing you to a public meeting room.

7:00-7:30 Pre-meeting Social

7:30-8:30 Chapter Meeting

We are combining with several other local AMI chapters for a Tip Sharing Discussion you won’t want to miss! Also a discussion on the power of positive parenting-dealing with tantrums. There will also be information about value training, Academy for Mothers and our next Family Service Project. Meet our Utah Valley Nominee for Utah Young Mother of the Year. We will also be working on our service dolls for Primary Children’s Hospital.

Also…Service Opportunity (bring any donations to our chapter meeting):

AMI of Utah Valley is collecting items to donate to an orphanage in Guatemala called Casa de Sion.  A container will be shipped mid-January with the items collected.  You can bring any donations to our January chapter meeting.  Below is a list of items needed by the orphanage.  You can learn more about this orphanage on the web at http://www.safehomesforchildren.org/casa.html

Clothing, shoes, socks, underwear

• Hygiene items, soap, toothbrushes, diapers, wipes, etc.

• Kitchen items, pots & pans, oven, refrigerator, plates, utensils, etc.

• Computers

• Medical supplies

• School supplies, especially for pre-school

• Twin size bunk beds

• All kinds of bedding (twin size )sheets, blankets and pillow cases

     Baby and infant items: Clothes, simple toys, blankets

• Fund raising for cash so we can build more housing for kids

• Help financially or materially to get our organic gardens going

• Frequent flyer miles

• Volunteers to go down and work on various projects and take donations down

 

RSVP to Karmel@LarsonRealtyService.com to get a “Family Idea Packet” at the meeting. You don’t have to RSVP to attend.