January 13th Meeting

This week we had the Executive Director from Tacoma Children's Museum speak at MOPS. She share some great information that I didn't get a chance to write down everything. Please comment some things that you learned below.

Here is what I took away from her talk.
1. Washington is doing a GREAT job at Early Childhood education! Yay us!
2. The Museum will be moving next Jan. to a new facility with better parking and a bigger building
3. It will be free (I am shocked at this so if I am wrong pleae tell me)
4. The most important thing you can do for your children is : LOVE them, TALK to them and PLAY with them.

Playing with my children imaginatively (is that a word, ha!)does not come easy to me. Even being a preschool teacher and nanny in my pre-mommy life. If you are like me or just can't pull yourself away from the messes you see around your house, then I encourage you to sit down for 15-30 min a day and play. I think we will actually be surprised at how easy and fun this can be. Just this week on our "snow" day I played homeschool (on man I have a whole other post for that), my kids loved that I played the teacher. Even today they asked to do it again. Try it and let us all know how it goes. Give yourself Grace too if you can't get to it daily. We are here to encourage and support one another in this gift of Motherhood.