Weekend & Family Friday: 5″ Stretch Chino Short
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
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- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I love all of April’s picks – been wearing these shorts for years. Can we do another round of cute things your kid is doing lately? I don’t have anything particularly earth shattering, but I’d like to hear yours.
Today is my last day at work – I’ve transferred contacts, emptied my office of almost everything, saved and sent documents to the appropriate people, said goodbye to the copy guy…am I forgetting anything?
How do you go about finding a therapist for a child? Do I start with the pediatrician? What if there are no behavioral problems, does that change how I approach this?
Background: My 9 yo son’s biological father is in the Reserves and has taken a job that requires a lot of travel out of the country. In both cases, he is not great about communicating his travel schedule to us in advance. Now that my son is older, it’s starting to impact him more. He says it’s not even about missing his dad, but that he really doesn’t like expecting one thing, and then finding out last minute it’s going to be something different. I completely understand that, because I’m the same way. He now sees his father maybe one weekend every 6-8 weeks. Last time his father has promised an early birthday celebration, and all he did was pay for an upgrade to one of his video games. Not even an ice cream cone (and this is a kid that values celebrations more than gifts).
I’ve noticed now that he seems to have this constant baseline of disappointment and, as a result, small inconveniences really upset him. For example, he had a WONDERFUL day at summer camp yesterday (they went to medeival times! They swam in the pool! etc.) BUT because of the heat in our area, they didn’t play outside in the late afternoon. He let that one small change/disappointment cloud his whole day. He was almost in tears when he told me. This was formerly out of character for him and seems like a disproportionate reaction in an otherwise good ady?
If someone were to ask me what I was hoping to get out of taking him to a therapist I’d say I have two goals. 1. To make sure there’s not something larger and more sinister going on in his life that we don’t know about. 2. If there’s not, to help learn the tools and coping skills to deal with small disappointments and last-minute changes without it ruining his whole day.
Thoughts? Advice? similar experiences? Am I going about this the right way?
I am pregnant, and I have a friend who keeps indicating she’d love to come visit me in the hospital when I have the baby. She has mentioned that she felt very honored when another friend invited her to see her baby in the hospital. This will be my first, and I’m kind of expecting the hospital experience to be chaotic and not my ideal time to welcome visitors. Thoughts?
Any suggestions for a sage green paint color that would work well in a little girl’s nursery? Trying to avoid something too dark or too teal. TIA!
This fall will be the first time we have to send my toddler with a lunch that won’t be refrigerated or heated. Suggestions for lunchboxes? I was looking at the packit (or whatever that one is called that you put in the freezer and the whole thing is an ice pack), but I’m not sure if it makes sense because I anticipate we’ll have to send warm food in a thermos sometimes. Although we want to get her eating more sandwiches & maybe she can eat leftovers like tortellini cold, right now her lunch is almost always heated before eating (open to pescetarian ideas on this front as well). I have a neoprene lunchbox myself, and I probably need a new one, but it doesn’t seem like it keeps things that cold. Thanks!
My 15 month old daughter’s daycare provides lunch and two snacks, but she has refused to eat anything they provide. She is picky at home, but not out of the range of normal I don’t think, and I’m not sure why she’s completely refusing to eat anything there – she has been there for two weeks now and otherwise seems to be adjusting really well. The school officially prohibits parents from sending in food, but they are making an exception for us, since we all (daycare teachers, us, pediatrician) agree it’s unhealthy for my daughter to go from 8-5 with zero calories (which she has proven she will do, rather than eat daycare food). However, for allergy reasons they’re requiring that all food be store bought and in sealed containers. Besides string cheese, individual servings of yogurt and baby food jars/pouches, what ideas do you have?
Here’s my laugh of the week: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-three-month-olds-guide-to-sleep-training-your-parents