Events Calendar
11/29 Holiday Photo Shoot
10a-5p Professional photographer Dianna Narotski will be on hand to capture a photo of your children or the whole family to use in your Holiday greetings. $20 per sitting, all proceeds will be donated to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.
12/1 Family Traditions Workshop
6:30-7:30p You may have family traditions you follow or wish to build more. Either way this class is for you. Bring the whole family we'll have activities and take home materials to get you on your way to developing meaningful family rituals. Cost $10 per family, registration required.
12/2 Crafty Tuesdays
11a-3p We’ll read a book about winter and make a paper chain to count down the days till Christmas. There will also be a fun Advent Calendar to take home! Story is read at 11am and 2 pm. Craft is available the entire time.
12/3 Baby wearing Wednesdays
Held the first Wednesday of every month. Come in to try out different carriers, learn some tips or just hang out and chat. All are welcome.
12/4 Mom & Me: Mom & Daughter Night Out
6:30-7:30 p Spend some one-on-one time with your sweet little girl. We’ll be making elegant paper ornaments (really!) and some Gingerbread Men ornaments.
12/5 Ornament Fridays
12:30-3:30 p For our first ornament crafting event, we will have precut (and pre-baked) salt dough cutouts, ready to be decorated by your budding Picasso.
12/6 Not Your Ordinary Craft Fair
10a-2p Come peruse the wares of local crafty mamas. Find the perfect, unique gift from among the quality items displayed.
12/9 Crafty Tuesdays
11a-3p We’ll read a book about the holidays and make a wreath of handprints to hang on your door. Story is read at 11am and 2 pm. Craft is available the entire time.
12/10 Dad’s Coffee
10am A chance for stay-at-home or work-at-home dads to meet, chat, and let their little ones burn off some energy.
12/12 Ornament Fridays
12:30-3:30p Come and make a cute reindeer ornament, and some mitten and hat garland to decorate your fireplace.
12/13 Columbus Attachment Parents
10:30-11:30a Ever wonder what the phrase “Attachment Parents” means? Come and find out! |
12/13 Gifts by Hand
12-3p Nothing can be sweeter than giving a gift of love that was made by hand! Bring in your kids for a giftable crafting event—7 crafting stations where they can make unique gifts for loved ones. Nominal charge for each craft to cover supplies.
12/16 Crafty Tuesdays
11a-3p This time we will read books about Santa, and make a Santa decoration. Story is read at 11am and 2 pm. Craft is available the entire time
12/18 Mom & Me: Mom & Son Time
6:30-7:30p Spend some one-on-one time with your son! We’ll do a cute ornament and play some games.
12/19 Ornament Fridays
12:30-3:30p Come and make a candy cane sign post so you know how to find the North Pole and a dangling snowman to keep you company on the trip.
12/24 Store Closes at 2pm for Christmas!
12/25-12/29 CLOSED
We’ll be enjoying the holiday with our families.
12/30 Crafty Tuesdays
11a-3p We’ll read a book about new beginnings and make a New Year’s Eve craft. Story is read at 11am and 2 pm. Craft is available the entire time.
12/31 New Year’s Eve
Come in for a craft to help welcome in the New Year!
And Coming in January:
1/6 Crafty Tuesdays:
Start the New Year off with a bang! Come make a snowflake mobile! Story is read at 11am and 2 pm. Craft is available the entire time.
1/7 Babywearing Wednesdays
10-11 a. Held the first Wednesday of every month. Come in to try out different carriers, learn some tips or just hang out and chat. All are welcome.
1/8 Mom & Me: Mom & Daughter’s Night Out
6:30-7:30 p Spend some one-on-one time with your sweet little girl. We’ll make adorable Snow Family Finger Puppets.
Also coming soon:
Play Days! Come to Sprout Soup to play some body moving games to run off some energy! What better way to spend a cold winter day than with friends?
Science with Noah! Homeschoolers! Come have some science fun with Noah. Classes meet once a week for four weeks. |
What is Attachment Parenting?
According to Attachment Parenting International, AP is:
- Preparing for Childbirth and Parenting: Read what you can about childbirth and make the decisions that are right for YOU. Become informed about routine newborn care and continuously educate yourself about developmental stages of childhood, setting realistic expectations and remaining flexible.
- Feed with Love and Respect: Breastfeeding is the optimal way to satisfy an infant's nutritional and emotional needs. However, "Bottle Nursing" applies nursing behaviors to bottle-feeding to help foster a secure attachment. Follow the feeding cues for both infants and children, encouraging them to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. Offer healthy food choices and model healthy eating behaviors.
- Respond with Sensitivity: Tune in to what your child is communicating to you, then respond consistently and appropriately. Babies cannot be expected to self-soothe, they need calm, loving, empathetic parents to help them learn to regulate their emotions.
- Use Nurturing Touch: Touch meets a baby's needs for physical contact, affection, security, stimulation, and movement. Carrying or baby wearing, nursing and co-sleeping meets this need in babies. Hugs, snuggles, back rubs, and physical play helps to meet this need in older children.
- Nighttime Parenting: Babies and children have needs at night just as they do during the day. They rely on parents to soothe them and help them regulate their intense emotions.
- Provide Consistent and Loving Care: Babies and young children have an intense need for the physical presence of a consistent, loving, responsive caregiver. Keep schedules flexible, and minimize stress and fear during short separations.
- Practice Positive Discipline: Discipline that is empathetic, loving, and respectful strengthens the connection between parent and child. Rather than reacting to behavior, discover the needs leading to the behavior.
- Strive for Balance: It is easier to be emotionally responsive when you feel in balance. Be creative, have fun with parenting, and take time to care for yourself.
However, remember AP is an approach, rather than a strict set of rules. It's actually the style that many parents use instinctively. Parenting is too individual and baby too complex for there to be only one way. The important point is to get connected to your baby, and attachment parenting helps. Once connected, stick with what is working and modify what is not. You will ultimately develop your own parenting style that helps parent and baby find a way to fit – the little word that so economically describes the relationship between parent and baby. AP is responsive parenting.
By becoming sensitive to the cues of your infant, you learn to read your baby's level of need. Because baby trusts that his needs will be met and his language listened to, the infant trusts in his ability to give cues. As a result, baby becomes a better cue-giver, parents become better cue-readers, and the whole parent-child communication network becomes easier.
For more information, please come to our Columbus Attachment Parents meetings, held the second Saturdays at 10:30am-11:30 am and the fourth Thursdays at 6:30-7:30pm of every month. (Thursday meetings start in January. Please see the Calendar of Events for December’s meeting). Held at Sprout Soup.
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