Maternity Monday: Maternity Sleeveless Draped-Neck Midi Dress
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Expecting with a holiday gathering on the horizon? Asos Maternity has several bump-friendly dresses to choose from, like this simple, yet elegant midi dress.
This sleeveless dress features a high neck, draped detailing, and kick slit. The pretty rust color is festive without resorting to the usual holiday colors. You can even take it to the office by adding a suit jacket and sleek booties.
The dress is $74.99 and comes in sizes U.S. sizes 2-16.
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
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Posting anon for this. My 2.5 DS is acting out aggressively (biting, pinching, pulling kids to the ground) at day care and with us at home. We had a conference with his teacher, and she shared it happens when another child gets in the way of his “routines” in the morning. He has set group of toys that he plays with every morning in a specific order. He will also act out when frustrated or bored, which is what we notice at home.
We have an appointment to get a speech eval with his ped and are trying pretty much ever other intervention at home. Anyone have suggestions, books, tools, we can implement at home and school for resiliency and allowing others to play?
Screaming into the void that our backup dependent care no showed this morning (after confirming details over the weekend!) and the agency didn’t call/email, I had to reach out after the sitter was 30 mins late.
We’re thinking seriously of getting our kids a trampoline for christmas. springless and no flips allowed, and honestly just keeping a close eye on them. Any specific springless recs? Theres an australian brand called Vuly that has a very good sale right now.
Has anyone with older kids kind of aged out of wanting things, and then what do you do for gift giving occasions? For the last several years it has been a real struggle to find things to give to my 11 year old son for holidays and birthdays. He’s not into sports at all, so typical answers to do with stuff like that do not apply. He’s into gaming so we give games and he’ll still accept a few legos, but even those have their limit of how many of each make sense for him. The problem is a) we have extended family members that want to give him stuff, and it’s becoming harder and harder to give them suggestions and b) as a mom I want him to have some stuff under the tree etc. especially when his sibling still has a wish list.
What’s the answer? In the past he’s partly gotten gift cards from the family members, although to be honest at this point he has like a stack of unused gift cards. Cash is weird, and he already doesn’t spend the allowance that he has, but at least then he can sock it away for the time in his life it will be useful?? I don’t know.
Curious if others have experienced this and what they did. Also, any non-sports related gift suggestions for an 11 year old boy?????
I’ve continued my record of being away whenever my son is ill (school diagnosed scarlet fever as I was boarding a plane, etc). He woke up throwing up at 3am, and I was blissfully asleep in my hotel room. I apologised to my husband (it’s his birthday as well) and he said “You can’t handle throw up, I’m glad to not have to deal with both of you being sick”. Think I should probably upgrade his birthday present.
Thinking about a cousins/family friend birthday party for my soon-to-be 5 year old. Want to keep it on the simple side at home/90s style.
Ideas for a few games to play to break up the unstructured play time?
Kid does not like bounce houses, so renting one is out.
You guys always know so much about music things that I do not know. I have a 6 year old who is excited to take guitar lessons, but should we start with piano? I have read that starting with piano translates to all other instruments as you get older. I have no musical knowledge, so am not sure if I should just give the kid what he wants, or if there is enough validity to the piano thing that I should put him in piano first.
Any tips for helping an anxious 7-year-old to fall asleep at night? She’s always tended to ruminate at bedtime and have trouble relaxing before bed. Then Halloween happened and now there are lots of worries about various spooky things. We do reading at night, and sometimes do a kids meditation from a book but I’m thinking about trying some other things. Has anyone tried the Moonbuddy? or a different book to try?
for the past many years i’ve bought my girls the fake ugg boots from Target, but this year they dont have the proper height, what other fake ugg type books have worked well for your kids? we dont live in a super cold climate and for 7 year olds, im unwilling to buy the real deal
Does anyone have recs for snow gloves/mittens for elementary kids that are decent quality but not too expensive? The kids have really nice ones for skiing but I don’t want them bringing those to school. I tried Target ones and they were awful (the insides kept getting all tangled up) but that was a few years ago so maybe I should give them another shot? What else do you all use?
Happy Monday, ladies. Did you all potty train during the day and night at the same time, or did you do daytime first and nighttime only later?
We are potty training and I am trying to decide on the best course of action for us.
my daughters’ school was supposed to have a thanksgiving poetry performance at 10:45am, which is clearly a convenient time for working parents…and i asked if they could do it first thing in the morning instead and they said yes! so it is now right after drop off, at 7:40am.
Thought question for the group. My husband’s brother and his wife live about 15 minutes from us, and we both have 13 year old boys. The boys have grown up essentially as brothers. They do the same activity, and have for several years (travel baseball, primarily, with some rec soccer mixed in). The kids go to different schools, but kids from both schools are generally on the same teams, so they know each other’s buddies really well and have almost always played in the same league – though not always the same team (usually bc they are ranked about the same, so they get drafted in the same round, if that makes sense).
There has always been a difference in how we talk to our kids about athletics. My husband and I have leaned hard into “we loved watching you play, you have worked so hard and we’ve seen so much improvement, etc.” with specific callouts for great plays. My BIL and his wife have always leaned more into “you are SUCH a great player, and here’s all the examples of how well you played.” Early on, it could be jarring to hear my sweet 8 year old nephew come up to me and say “Did you know that I’m the best at {skill} on my team?” Not really bragging, just super matter of fact. I never really felt like it was great to pump up the kids so much…and didn’t want to put pressure on my son, so just leaned into how much we loved watching him play and going to his games and seeing him work so hard.
Anyway, now that the kids are older, I feel like we did it wrong, as my BIL’s way of talking to his kids about sports … seems to be working? My nephew and my son have always been ranked within one or two slots of each other whenever they try out for a sport (with different strengths), and my nephew has gotten a few lucky breaks over the years (when they were both younger, he got placed on a soccer team that was overall a lot stronger and stuck together, which didn’t happen for my son’s team), but now as they are getting older, my son is just not as confident in his skills – whereas my nephew is SUPREMELY confident, and it’s leading to more confidence/bravado in the try outs as they are trying out for new teams, which has led to better team placement again.
Ugh. My son *loves, loves, loves* to play, and has played on a lot of teams that have – for better or worse – not been great. It is starting to wear on him, as he wants to have the successes that his cousin’s teams keeps getting. I feel like I’m letting down my son a bit. I am not/was not a sports person, so I’d love to hear from people who were athletes through high school or even college, and how their parents supported them.
Has anyone tried the Artful Agenda planner?
I need a dress for an upcoming black tie work event (as a mid-40s lawyer). Where would you shop? Any suggestions?