For grown ups:
book club | walking club | |parties | community outreach | meals for new moms

For children and parents:
playgroups | field trips | parties | special events

Book Club
Meets one evening a month for wine, cheese and discussion. All members welcome.
Read any good books lately? If you are a member of the book club, you have. Past selections have been The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Everything is Illuminated by Honathan Safran Foer, and My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult. The main premise of this club is to read interesting books, both fiction and non-fiction, which stimulate our brains and take us momentarily away from the world of runny noses and playdate schedules.

Note that members who purchase the books through the links to Amazon.com, generate a small referral fee for NMF.

Walking Club
Join other moms for great conversation and exercise! Come with your kids, or without if they are in school. All are welcome!

Parties
Fall and Winter Socials, Holiday Party, Wine and Cheese Tasting and Game Night. Also, various other get-togethers throughout the year, e.g., gallery visits, progressive dinner party, cross-country-ski morning.

Community Outreach
In the past, The Mothers' Forum has raised various donations to help families for The Second Step homeless shelter in Newton, the Newton Free Library, and Room to Grow, a nonprofit who provides baby essentials for low-income families. We hope our donations can go to help other parents and their children who are in need. We also host a silent auction some years. Local businesses donate goods and services to help the NMF raise money for local charitable organizations.

Meals for New Moms
This is a program to provide meals to our members who are experiencing a life-changing event, such as the birth of a baby. Here's how it works: when one of our members goes through a life-changing event, she (or one of her friends) contacts NMF, at which point a home-cooked (or a delicious store-bought) meal will be arranged to be brought to her home by an NMF volunteer. This is simply an effort to help ease a transition for members of our community.

For children and parents:
playgroups | field trips | parties | special events

Playgroups
Organized by children's ages, held in members' homes.

Field Trips
Planned throughout the year to places like Drumlin Farm, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, New England Aquarium, and Franklin Park Zoo.

Parties
Activities vary each year, and have included: Community Halloween Fair, Tree Triming and Hanukkah Party, and Valentine's Day Party, all with crafts and games.

Special Events
For example, private showings of preschool movies at the West Newton Cinema.

 

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