Stay at home parents

Re: Stay at home parents

• Daisy22 member

  July 2011

  The Goddard school at 285 and South Atlanta also does part-time 2,3 or 4 days a week and half days either 9-1 or 1-5.

  I haven't been but there is a music class place called The Music Class nad also a The Little Gym that some of my neighbors go too. 

  This is an email a friend of mine sent me when I asked her about PMOs in smyrna: 

   I currently have her at Bethany United Methodist.  It might be a bit far for you, but it is a really easy, inexpensive program.  It is $135 a month for 2 days (9-1) so you really can't beat that.  They also do dropoff so that is why I say it is easy.  They also take infants They are also open August-May so it is really only 2 months that you would need to find alternative care.

  I have her on a waitlist at Smyrna First Baptist, and also Smyrna First United Methodist.  SFUM doesn't do lunch though, and it is only 9-12, so I feel like it wouldn't give me much free time.  I really liked Sm Baptist and am hoping she will get in there but they have a pretty big wait list too.  They are only really open Sept-mid May though, so you would have a bigger gap for summer care.

  St. Benedicts is pretty affordable and has some very flexible hours.  They can do extended care, and can go 2-5 days per week.  That might work out well for you since you need a bit more time.  Also, St. Thomas the Apostle seems to have a pretty flexible schedule without a huge waitlist.

   

   

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• slwprincess member

  July 2011

  Daisy22:

  The Goddard school at 285 and South Atlanta also does part-time 2,3 or 4 days a week and half days either 9-1 or 1-5.

  We are doing this Goddard part time with Gavin and love it.  They have been great with helping him with his speech delay so that now we have moved from hardly talking at all to just needing help with pronounciation.  Big difference.  If you end up going here please let me know so I can say hello!  As for helping your DH out, my only advice is to come up with a schedule and stick to it.  The days that I am home suck if I don't have a plan!  By the time DH gets home I am completely burned out and frustrated.  But if I have a plan and if it includes getting out of the house for even an hour, our day goes so much better!  Good luck- sounds exciting!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

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• BottomStar member

  July 2011

  Thanks so much ladies!  I knew the Methodist Church had a program, but I had no idea so many other churches offered MMOs.  We'll have to take a look at Goddard, too because Marlowe went to one in NJ when she stayed with my mom this spring, and she loved it! 

  

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• hthomas02

  July 2011

  I can't help with your area, but some ideas on the SAHD thing....do you guys belong to a gym or the Y?  We belong to the Y and I've met a ton of mommy friends from there.  Our Y has a couple of classes for the kids, Toddlercize, which is basically like gymboree, and its included in your membership fee, and mommy and me exercise (which dads can also do) and they just started a music class too.  Anyway, just an idea you guys might want to look into.  Or even to have him sign up for a music class, he'll meet those parents.  Your area probably has one of those meet-up playgroups too.  Dads are welcome to all of these things, and at least in my area, I'm see alot more dads coming to things.  good luck with the transition!

  

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• dleigh2020 member

  July 2011

  I have met several SAHD at the Taylor Brawner Park on Atlanta Rd.

  
  

  
  

  

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• Alison422

  July 2011

  I have been searching for a MMO for Taylor so he can go somewhere 1 day a week and I found Bethany United Methodist and Tillman United Methodist (both in Smyrna).  I don't know anything about either one but just found them in my searches.  Caroline goes to First Baptist Smyrna for preschool, but they don't have a MMO.  They start preschool classes at 1 year.  But like a previous poster stated they have a long waiting list. 

  
  

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• Janimal member

  July 2011

  Being a SAHD can be very tough.  DH is a freelance writer/producer so DD is in daycare 3 half days a week and the rest of the time he's on Daddy duty unless he has a big workload. 

  We have lots of SAHM friends so because they already knew us, DH can hang with them sometimes.  Yesterday he took DD to the pool with a friend and her 2 kids.  But generally when DD goes to stuff where there are only moms, he's the odd one out.  He doesn't mind, and totally understands why moms don't go out of their way to make friends - he would feel weird about it too "hey baby I made a new friend today, Sheila" - it would be weird!

  So it can be quite more difficult and isolating for SAHDs, because they don't make other SAH friends the same way moms bond.  So perhaps make the rounds of your current SAHM friends and ask them to invite DH to join them sometimes. 

  When DH is home with DD, he goes to the gym.  I think it helps keep him sane and DD has fun playing in the play area.  We are BIG fans of The Music Class I would recommend that bigtime.  Storytime at the local library is great, and even at local bookstores.  DD also goes to a ballet class and that's awesome - and there are Dads there too!

  
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• amyb05 member

  July 2011

  Both of my kids are in the MMO program at Cumberland United Methodist near Paces Ferry and 285 and I LOVE it! Easton has been going 2 days/wk since he was 16mo and EB has been going for the past few months too. Easton is moving on to preschool this fall but EB will be going back to Cumberland 2 or 3 days/wk. They currently have a few spots open for fall. I really, really like the teachers and most of them now babysit privately for me as well.

  

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