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Binders:
Both Organizing & Memories
Binders:
looking for a way to organize all the little tid-bits of
information you’ve been picking up from doctors,
printing off the Internet or collecting from magazines?
This
organizational method not only keeps handy information at
your fingertips, it allows you to chart your child’s
progress on a year-to-year basis.
 Realistically,
how many parents keep every little piece of information
they acquire about being new parents?
Every learning tool, every article, every pamphlet,
and every magazine . . . you get the picture.
You’d actually be surprised how many people
really do this. I’m
guilty. I’ve
been keeping all the information I’ve been gathering
since the day I learned I was pregnant with my first child
in 1998. Now,
three years and two kids later, I have a multitude of
information ready for the picking.
What
do we do with all this information?
Leave it in a pile to collect dust in the corner?
Stick it in a box to get all bent-up and mutilated
when sifting through trying to find that article about
what foods to avoid the first year?
Spend hours scouring the Internet again because you
can’t find the article you printed three months ago?
Hardly constructive ways to keep you informed,
educated and efficient. So, what’s the solution?
 One
option, of the many that I practice to keep my hair from
turning gray when looking for something, is binders.
Not only will materials be stored efficiently, a
handy keepsake is created as well.
How is this a keepsake?
It’s all in the way the binder is organized.
Here are some suggestions:
- Separate
each section by month of development (i.e. one month
old, two months old and so on) using tabbed dividers.
- Use
a binder wide enough to keep an entire year’s worth
of records, articles and other informative materials
collected.
- Decorate
each tabbed divider so they are different from each
other using themes for the corresponding month of
development. (Scrapbook
materials work well for this.)
- Decorate
the cover of the binder or use the type of binder with
the plastic protector so you can slide decorated
sheets of paper inside the front, back and spine.
- Keep
separate binders for specific topics information is
being saved for (i.e. nutrition, safety and so on.)
and decorate them accordingly.
Once
all the information is compiled in an organized manner,
not only will you have a handy way to access it anytime
necessary, you also have a developmental keepsake of your
child’s first years.
Sift through these binders periodically disposing
of materials no longer of use to make room for newer
add-ins. Or,
if you choose, keep these binders as a handy tool for
children you plan to have in the future, updating wherever
necessary.
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