Seeking Other Mommies for Possible Playdates and Also to Learn From.

M.,

I have an idea for you on the pacifer. My grandson was also stuck on it and my daughter tried something that worked GREAT!!! We took him to Build a Bear and let him pick out an animal to make - he picked the monkey. Before we went several days before hand we told him that we were going to go make a titi animal (titi was name of his pacifer) and that his titi was going inside the animal. We went to the store put some stuffing in placed the pacifier in and put a lullaby in the hand. It worked like magic. He is now 3 and sleeps with TITI Monkey ocassional at night, at first it was everynight. The comfort is he knows the pacifier is there but he is unable to suck on it. He knows where it is inside the monkey too. So he knows it is there. Note: you have to get rid of all of the other pacifiers in the house and make sure this is the last one.

My daughter is 25 with 2 sweet boys, a 3yr old (July 2007) and a new 11 week baby. She is going thru a divorce and works in Tampa. Where are you located?

Good Luck with the pacifer, hope this works for you.

On the potty training we are still going thru that - although I have seen the new urnials for potty training and think they would work great!! My grandson hates the potty chair and refused to use it so we bought one of those seats that go over the toilet seat.

Hello M.,
I have a mom's group called St Pete Working Moms. St Pete Working Moms is a Support/Playgroup for families in Pinellas County including, but not limited to St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park, Kenneth City, Seminole, Clearwater, Largo, Safety Harbor, St. Pete Beach, Madeira Beach, Treasure Island, Indian Rocks, Gulfport and for any nearby Hillsborough County members willing to travel to Pinellas for our group's activities and playgroups.

The majority, if not all, of our events and activities take place in the evenings and weekends so we can accommodate our working mom's busy schedules.

We participate in Home playdates, Area Attraction playdates, Themed playdates, Craft Playdates, Holiday Parties, Story Time, Puppet Shows, Family Picnics, Beach Days, Park Days, Mom's Night Out events, Mommy and Me Stroller Walks and Scrapbooking.

Our member-only website has access to local family-friendly activities listed in our calendar section along with links to area resources in our links section.

Our members also can post pictures, descriptions and contact info in our photos section for Children, Family and/or Home items for sale. We also use this area to post pictures from playgroups, area activities and personal photo albums to share with the group.

We are a very diverse group, accepting moms from all walks of life. Although the majority of our members are working mothers, we accept membership from stay-at-home mothers and pregnant mothers too. Our children are just as diverse, ranging from Newborn to school age.

Our group will give you support, friendship and most of all FUN for you and your children.

We can't wait to meet your family!

Check out our website for more information and to join:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StPeteWorkingMoms/

Hello M., what area do you live in? We just moved from Chicago to the Tampa Palms area I have a 19 month old son. As for the passie this is what I did for my son, start cutting the tip of the passie off. Start slow with just the tip, give it back to him then the next week for later the same week cut some more of it off. Mine son knew there was something wrong with it but couldn't figure out what, he finally started using it less and less during the day. I think he figured what is the point. He was off the passie within two weeks and never asked for it. I see some other moms were open to play dates as well so let me know if you set one up, you can email me here or my address is ____@____.com.

Hi M.! Welcome to mamasource! I would love to hang out. I'm 20 I'll be 21 next month. my son is 14 months old. We are living with family right now but we just moved to Tampa so I dont know any other moms here. Where do you live? Maybe we could meet at the brandon mall and have lunch/playdate. Email me on here. T.

hi M.,

I would love to have a play date or talk i am a first time mom to and my little boy turned 2 in may. i work full time but i have the weekends and monday and wensday mornings. we are learning to potty like a big boy to! i would love to talk and to get know other moms and to have tyler play with other kids his age. i look foward to talking to you. please send me a mesag

Hi M.!
My kids are now 12,13&15, but when they were 1,2,&4 (and all on the pacifier) I decided that the best thing to do was to get them all off of it at the same time. We referred to the pacifier as a "noony", so what I did was told them that the "noony fairy" would be coming that night to take them away. I had the older ones put theirs under their pillows (my daughter I just never gave it to her again and she was fine with that) and in the morning they were gone, with a small treasure left behind. The boys never asked for one again. It worked for me....so who knows...maybe it would work for you.
Take care, L.

Were are you located? We are in the Brandon area. I have 2 boys 3 (in may) and the youngest is 20 months old. We took the paci from my oldest when he was 2 1/2....the baby had one or it would have been sooner. We started cutting back on when he was allowed to have it and then cut the tip off...he hated that it was cut, he couldn't suck it the way he liked and after a week of that we just took it, and he got over it quickly, luckily the youngest gave it up by himself about 7 months old.

Where are you going to school at? I have been a RN since Dec 05. I love it!! I am a "homemaker" 5 days a week and work 2.....I also sell tupperware for fun :)