Have a ‘Yes Day’ at Least Once a Month

Have you ever heard of the ‘Yes Day’ concept? If you haven’t, I highly recommend you watch the popular Netflix movie, ‘Yes Day’ and watch our exclusive interview with Jenna Ortega.  It doesn’t matter if you are a parent or a kid, we all need Yes Days!

Having a Yes Day is a fantastic way to celebrate families. There’s a little bit of surprising data about what happens on Yes Days when parents do them: Kids tend to ask their parents to turn off their phones and put all their devices away, which isn’t something you’d think kids would ever ask. But yes, they also want you off screen time!

During an interview with Netflix, Jennifer Gardner described the Yes Days she has with her family:

“We don’t do anything huge. Truth be told, it’s really more about a kid getting to just bend the everyday rules. It’s ice cream for breakfast, sleeping outside in the yard, and…I do something with them called Coach Mom where I make them run laps and do push-ups — for fun, not in a serious way — but they’ll do Coach Kids, and they’ll make me do all kinds of crazy things. My kids’ Yes Days are a surprise, which is different from the movie. We wake up, I’ve cleared my day, I’ve cleared their days, and I just say, “Hey, guess what, kids? It’s Yes Day!” And by then I’ve already planted little things in their mind like, “Wouldn’t it be fun if we went to the cake decorating place and everyone did a cake?”