November Meeting Minutes

Lincoln Park Co-op Just Walkers
Parent Meeting
(November 3, 2008)


CALL TO ORDER
The regular business meeting for Lincoln Park Co-op Just Walkers was called to order by VP/Co-chair, Tami Aidlin on November 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm.

ATTENDANCE
Deyette Swegle, Dawna Dennis, Karrie Reimer, Julie Zellner, Tiffany Colman, Eric Newman, Laurel Taylor, Stuart Bloomfield, Gina Strand, Jessy Beardemphl, Tami Aidlin, Kate Kowal, Wendy Personnett, Connie Hofstad, Sara Carter

MINUTES
The October minutes were approved with no changes.

Parent education Topic presented

Connie talked about the typical one year old behavior and passed out the handout, “Guidance and Discipline—Parenting Styles”. She said we should aim to be proactive parent.

Connie then passed a handout, “The Three Ways of Overindulging”. She mentioned that a study was done on adults who were “overindulged as kids”. They were asked what was most harmful or had the most impact to them now as adults. They responded that too soft of structure and not doing chores had the biggest negative impact on their lives.

Connie talked about the typical two year old behavior and referred to it as the “rubber band years”. Two year olds are living in tension and are looking for the cause and effect. She reminded us that sometimes what looks like defiance can often be an act of seeking independence and that they can’t always stop themselves from what they do.

Discussion Group
Julie passed out our schedule. She explained for the first two weeks of November, we are going to split into groups by child’s age. She would like feedback on how that is working and then we can try splitting into groups by children with siblings vs. without. We went around the room and discussed what our child likes to do at Co-op.

Just Walker’s schedule:
Free choice for 30 minutes.
Parents go to their station and group discussion parents go to the corner in the music room.
If your child is in the climber room, do not leave until there are two parents working at that station.
Parents will be in their work station for 30 minutes.
Cleanup time
Snack
Music time
TEACHER’S REPORT

Teacher Sara emailed the November curriculum. For November 19th, Teacher In-Service Day, Sara will put out art supplies that are easy to cleanup.

CO-CHAIR REPORT

Site Update
Furnace has been updated. They are looking into finding a new sink/cabinet hopefully on Craigslist for the bathroom off the music room. Repair person to change the light bulb in the climber room and in the EXIT sign.

Photos
Currently, pictures are taken by the professional photographer in the spring. We voted by show of hands to continue to take pictures in the spring versus fall.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

PAC
The winter quarter scholarship deadline is November 25th to Connie. Please see Connie if you need a form.

Fundraising
November 7th is the deadline for Wreath/Garland orders. More information to follow regarding delivery of the Wreaths.

PCC & Safeway Script
You can register your Safeway card to give 1% back of what you spend to Lincoln Park Co-op. You can go to the Safeway website and register your card. Dawna will also send out an email regarding registering your Safeway card. After Thanksgiving, the Co-op will be purchasing $25 card which you can buy and 5% will go back to our Co-op. The PCC card can be renewed with any dollar amount.

Assistant Treasurer Report
Laurel reminded us that it is not too late to sign-up for Electronic Transfer.

Blog
We agreed to continue the blog since it is working well. We can also add the Parent Meeting snack schedule to the blog.

Social
Heather and Eric Newman have volunteered to host our December Social at their house. The social is for all parents to attend without kids. It is a time to socialize and we do not have to hold our regular Parent Meeting. There will be a sign-up for appetizers and desserts. Usually the Social runs the same time as our meeting, 7:00-9:00pm.

Important Dates
November 19--Teacher in-service day, we will have class but not Teacher Sara
November 25th--Scholarship deadline
Parent Social—December 2