Many times, the Group mothers will bring out the points on your outline during the course of their discussion. Effective Leaders share their personal experiences selectively. Offering recollections of your own parenting experiences is good as long as it's not overdone. Leaders take care that the personal experiences they do share illustrate a point, show empathy, or affirm comments. They don't try to show the preferred way of handling a situation or minimize a woman's own experiences.
Effective Leaders ask questions to bring out concerns and comments.
Questions that can be answered with a simple yes or no rarely spur great discussions. Open-ended questions with many possible replies allows for more participation. Discussion questions that are directly tied to the meeting topic help keep conversations from straying to unrelated tangents. Effective Leaders don't give advice or guarantee results. Giving advice deprives others of learning how to solve a problem on their own.