Kidoinfo is pleased to partner with Providence Children’s Museum to present the new program Toddler Art.
Join Toddler Art on Mondays, May 7, 14 and 21 from 10:00 AM – Noon. Young children, ages 18 months to 3 years, use real tools and embrace the creative process as they delve into a different art exploration each week…
We love getting to know parents in our community. In our Home Work series, we ask moms and dads how they juggle their work while raising kids, hoping to get some insight on how to better balance our own work/playtime while being introduced to our neighbors and their cool businesses. Today, meet Kathy McGuigan — social worker and co-founder of Rhode Island New Moms Connection.
Kathy McGuigan, MSW has been working with women and children for 16 years. As a social worker, she has provided services for women and children in a variety of settings including shelters, community health centers, and schools.
Join us on Monday, May 7th from 6-8 pm at Candita Clayton’s Gallery – Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket, Rhode Island!
Stop by for good conversation, free drinks, snacks and raffles!
Kidoinfo Balancing Motherhood eventKidoinfo is hosting an evening to celebrate all of us who are Balancing Motherhood in our lives. In honor of Mother’s Day (May 13th) real moms will briefly share their stories on how they balance their life as parents with their passions, work, relationships, and plans for the future. This Kidoinfo community event is a night out not to be missed. You will have the chance to connect with others who are mixing family with creativity, business, and as much grace & humor as possible.
Please pre-register…
alternatives to participating in traditional holidays and commercialism:
• Set limits and establish a sense of proportion. Holidays always evolve, and are a mix of traditions (Christian holidays for example are a mix with Roman traditions). Our kids write letters to Santa and know that they will get 1 gift from Santa only and a few from us. (Luckily for the kids, their grandmothers do not always comply.)
• We get our Christmas tree on the weekend of our anniversary to share this special time with the kids. We buy the tree that we think no one else will pick. We choose the one that is crooked or homely so it has a home for the holiday.
• We do not give presents for Channuka. We celebrate the Jewish traditions in a noncommercial way.
traditions: tips / resources
Search your soul, your heart, and your memory bank for what is cherished. What values, ideas, and moments are most important to you? Make a list. Build traditions around the top of that list.
Traditions should be unique to you. Lather, rinse and repeat Step One.
Involve your family. What traditions do they want to continue, tweak, add? ‘Cause they’re, um, on this train, too.
