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What if you were pregnant or had a small child and found yourself alone in a strange city? What if your extended family lived far away and you wanted to create a local family to share the joys and difficulties of being a new mother?

What if mothers got together to form a social safety net for each other and share ideas on everything from what to do with a crying child at 3 AM to what to expect from a home birth?

What if through this group, these mothers are able to create richer lives for themselves and their children?

What if mamas organized to create a better world for their families? What if this organizing began to touch the whole world?

Family Playtime: Moms' Support Group

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Our show began out of the belief that community organizing could make a better life. What could be a simpler idea?

Family Playtime, the brainchild of Rhoda Brown, has stepped into the lives of over 300 Charleston area mothers to provide a support group offering everything from breast milk for a newly adopted child to a trailer loaded with supplies for a Mexican orphanage to a heavily used Yahoo group message board. From supporting each other around the issues of home birth and breastfeeding to promoting organic foods and cloth diapers, the moms you'll see on this show are committed to supporting each other emotionally and in other ways.

This show is about the power of grass roots organizing around issues that affect mamas and children. We hear of the tenderness of a mother's love and see the tears of a new mother from Venezuela who felt rescued by the group when she and her baby ended up in intensive care.

We talk to moms from Charleston and moms who have moved here from other places, all of whom are grateful to the group because their children are growing up without aunts and uncles and cousins nearby. The Family Playtime kids have become their substitute cousins. Watch this show to break old ideas about home schooling. Consider a different way of looking at discipline or teaching your child to read. And hear what these 21st century moms think about their own moms and the way they were raised.