What we're thankful for this season of parenting

This week, our team is taking a moment to reflect on small joys, hard-won lessons, and everyday chaos that shape our parenting journeys, and we invite you to do the same. Join us in giving thanks!

Events in Your Area 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

NYC

• Get Test Ready! How important is the ACT and SAT? (Free! Virtual event)

• Harlem Renaissance Rent Party (Children’s History Museum)

• Thank-FULL & GratitudeFest (Children’s Museum of Manhattan)

San Francisco

• Lightscape (SF Botanic Gardens)

• Welcome Winter Night (CA Academy of Sciences)

• Thanksgiving Break Camp (Bay Area Discovery Museum)

Boston

• Zoo Lights (Stone Zoo)

• SMART Gals [Science, Math, Art]: Exploring DNA (Acton Discovery Museum)

What’s New This Week 🙏

• Mindful Motherhood (How to Be Present When Your Brain Is Everywhere Else): When your brain is racing a mile a minute, it might feel unnatural to slow down and take a second. With these quick techniques, we’re offering solutions that bring you back into the moment and make things seem more manageable.

• Thank You, Past Me - The Power of Looking Back with Grace: This Thanksgiving, take a moment to thank your past self. Explore the power of self-gratitude, personal growth, and grace in motherhood—even when life is messy.

• A Parent’s Primer on Early Childhood Education Approaches: Dive into the differences between Waldorf, Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and more early childhood education approaches. Clear guidance on choosing the best preschool philosophy for your child!

What We’re Into This Week 🔉📚📺

• High School Girls Are Way Less Interested in Marriage Now, Statistically: All the single ladies, all the single ladies 🎶 According to the Pew Research Center, high school senior gals are significantly less interested in marriage now than they have been over the last 30 years, while young men’s sentiments have generally remained the same. Check out some of the reasons why!

• The Cost of Compliance for Our Kids (Good Inside Podcast): Dr. Sunita Sah visits the podcast this week to talk about the “good kids” are often seen as the ones who listen and don’t make a fuss, but does this constant compliance come with a long-term cost?

How We’re Feeling This Week:💯

This week, we want to take a moment to recognize you—the parents who show up day after day, often tired, often stretched, but always trying. Parenting asks more of us than anyone ever sees, and yet you keep going: comforting big feelings, packing lunches, juggling schedules, teaching values, and loving your kids in a thousand quiet ways. We see the invisible work, the emotional labor, the patience pulled from thin air. Thank you for everything you do, not just this week, but every single day. You’re doing an incredible job—even on the days it doesn’t feel like it!

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Signing off,

Your Team at MomBrains