Being a parent means saying “no” a lot. In fact, a recent study of 200 parents found that 94% of them say \u201cno\u201d daily\u2014with more than half (53%) saying it 5+ times a day. What\u2019s more, the poll found that 60% of parents find themselves saying “no” even more once school’s out for summer.<\/p>\n
But what if we consciously tried saying “yes” a little bit more? (Even if just for a day?) Enter our joyful “Summer of YES” event with our friends at GoodPop<\/a>, makers of better-for-you frozen treats that parents can most definitely say YES to.<\/p>\n We kicked off our “Summer of YES” with a trip to Austin (GoodPop<\/a>‘s hometown) to gather with an inspiring group of moms, dads, and kids for a full roster of activities at the colorful Create!<\/a> art studio + play space.<\/p>\n Upon entry, each child received a passport filled with a variety of fun happenings that parents could feel good about stamping “YES” next to. This includes enjoying GoodPop<\/a> popsicles for breakfast and coffee (for kids!) by Kiid Coffee<\/a>, using your body as a canvas (thanks to OOLY<\/a>, Welly<\/a>, and Super Smalls<\/a>), painting on the walls (via our “YES” mural), making a silly face in our “pop personality” portrait booth, noshing on waffles by Evergreen<\/a> and crackers and s’mores by Sunnie<\/a>, playing freely, and so much more!<\/p>\n Being a parent means saying “no” a lot. In fact, a recent study of 200 parents found that 94% of them say \u201cno\u201d daily\u2014with more than half (53%) saying it 5+ times a day. What\u2019s more, the poll found that 60% of parents find themselves saying “no” even more once school’s out for summer. But…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168797"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168956,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168797\/revisions\/168956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Check out our “Summer of YES” event with GoodPop in the 60+ party pics below!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"