Getting To Know You

Even with our small group, we don't all know each other well.  Our kids are different ages.  We are at different stages in our parenting journies.  Some of us are parents of more than one child (one group member has four kids!), others are parents of just one (five of us in that group).  In order for us all to feel comfortable watching each others kids at each others houses, we need to know each other a bit better.

So we've scheduled a potluck brunch for all of us.  The kids can run around and interact and the parents can chat and get to know each other.  It was really a challenge to find a date and time that worked for everyone - even though we've been emailing about making this happen all month, our scheduled date isn't until the first of November.  I hope that this will also be an opportunity to talk as a group about some ideas and norms of the childcare swap, such as:

-How much information does the care provider need?  Emergency contacts?  (Yes!)  Insurance info?  Allergies? (Yes!)  Preferences?  Could we make a document within our group that held all this info so parents didn't have to re-write/type it each time?

-How do we share our success with our larger community of parents without making this group open to everyone?

-Successes/challenges/ideas with the group so far?

I'm looking forward to our get together!