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- Songs to Sing
- The PEPS Song Sheet
- Why sing to a baby
- Article on the benefits of singing to your baby
- Getting In Tune
- An article regarding the powerful impact of music on children's development. Has ideas for activities for each developmental phase 0 - 3 It is taken from the Zero to Three website.
- Healthy Sleep: 0-6mo
- Developing Healthy Sleep Habits - birth to 6 months. A handout you can email to newborn group members as a follow-up to the sleep discussion.
- Healthy Sleep: 5-18mo
- Developing Healthy Sleep Habits - 5 to 18 month olds. A collection of sleep information by PEPS Program Designer, Janelle Durham. Can be used as a handout for Baby Peppers
- Sleep Advice for Babies
- Sleep - The best sleep advice you've never heard! A collection of tips by Catherine Guthrie
- Feeding Baby: 6wks-2mo
- A handout summarizing key advice on feeding in the early months - can be used as a handout, or emailed to group as a follow-up to discussion.
- Feeding Baby: 5-36 mo
- Feeding Your Child 5 - 36 months. From starting solids to finger foods and toddler meals. A summary of the recommendations.
- Bottle-feeding Breastmilk
- Pumping, Storing, and Bottle-Feeding Breastmilk
- Making Breastfeeding Work
- Addresses how to manage breastfeeding in regards to: return to work, childcare, nursing in public, sexuality, and weaning.
- Maximize Your Breastmilk
- A frequent challenge shared at Newborn PEPS Groups is concern about breastmilk supply. If this is mentioned in your Group, this collection of recommendations can be emailed out as a follow-up.
- Solid Foods Cheat Sheet
- A one page doc with solid foods tips - created by Jennifer Farrow with the help of PEPS group members and the book Baby 411.
- Toddlers: The Picky Eater
- Feeding your toddler - table manners and picky eaters. Addresses two of the common topics that come up when discussing feeding at Little Peppers and Second time around Groups
- Postpartum Mood Disorders
- Handout summarizing risk factors, symptoms, steps to getting help, and local resources.
- PPMD (handout by Megan Davis)
- description of feelings and local resources
- PPMD Handout with Tips
- Information about postpartum mood disorders
- Sad dads
- post partum depression in men
- Toys & Activities
- Ideas for simple activities and basic toys which all help babies to learn. Organized around the idea of multiple intelligences - toys for building mathematical intelligence, spatial skills,big motor and fine motor skills, linguistic intelligence, etc.
- Developmental Cheat Sheet
- A breakdown on milestones written by Jennifer Farrow with the help of Baby 411 and the AAP Parenting your Child ages birth to 5.
- Reading with your child
- information from the Talaris Institute
- Sign language basics
- brief info
- Baby Talk
- Encouraging language development
- Baby Sign Language
- These are documents from our sign language speaker that may be used at any group, even is she is not available to come to your location.
- Creative play toys
- Protect baby from choking
- Safety resources and links
- Baby Safety 101
- the basics
- Infant Suffocation
- Discusses the rise of infant suffocation and possible correlation to bed-sharing
- Coping With Colic
- Best thing for colic? Support!
- Hands-On Dad
- The Importance of Fathers
- A two-page summary of research on the contributions of fathers in children's lives. Used this in a joint, mother/father group by having members take turns reading one summary out loud.
- Let Dads be Dads
- a magazine article on how good dads are different from good moms
- Gatekeeper Moms
- Mom's as Gatekeepers to Father's Involvement. An article on research into how the type and degree of a father's involvement is determined by the mother, as the Gatekeeper. Read selected quotes from this article during a mother/father group and then split the group by gender to discuss the article. Fascinating discussion!
- Relationship Satisfaction
- Helping your relationship survive a new baby
- Mommy manners
- non-confrontational interactions at the playground
- Introducing baby to pet
- Short article on dogs, cats, and babies
- Dogs andToddlers
- a 22 page review of how to help dogs and children live happily together
- Babysitting Co-op
- Some PEPS Plus Groups have started successful babysitting co-ops. Here’s a sample set of bylaws for one co-op to help give you some ideas for structure.
- Travel with Baby
- Some tips on traveling with website resources
- Parenting & Personal Growth
- Parenting as Personal Growth Practice. Excerpted from the book, "Wherever You Go, There You Are", by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He relates the way he sees his parenting as a meditation retreat. Describes clearly how challenging parenting is, but gives it a positive spin.
- Lactation-boosting cookie
- Lactation-boosting cookie recipe
- Formula, organic or not?
- Is Organic Formula Worth the Cost?
- Starting A Baby Food Exchange
- A quick how-to on starting a baby food exchange with a group, where each member picks a different first food and prepares a batch, freezes that and then portions it out for an agreed upon exchange
- Self Care for Parents
- Ideas for little things parents can do to make time for self care while parenting a baby.
- Temperament quiz
- An optional handout to accompany temperament discussion
- Almost Guilt-Free Parenting
- Wading Pools 2011
- Relationship - Appreciation
- Addresses the importance of expressing and receiving appreciation from our partner in a relationship. Gives tools for doing so.
- What is Your Love Language
- For the Couples' Relationship discussiong. Addresses the idea that we speak and hear different love languages, including Physical Touch, Quality Time, Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, and Gifts. Handout is designed as a "quiz" like those found in magazines.
- Communicating Needs
- For the Couple's Relationship discussion. Examines how to figure out what your needs are, and how to ask your partner to help meet those needs.
- Relationships: Find Time
- Finding the Time & Space for your Relationship. For couple's relationship discussion. Ideas for 5 minute dates, date nights, fitting couple time in around baby time.
- Bids for Connection
- For the Couple's relationship discussion. Discusses John Gottman's theory about how partners make bids for affection, and respond to bids by either Turning Toward, Turning Away or Turning Against.
- Self Care for Parents - short
- a shorter version of the handout
