Maternity Monday: Stretch Cord Ankle Maternity Pant
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Cords make a regular appearance each fall. If you’re expecting, you can still partake in this fall favorite.
Ingrid & Isabel’s maternity cords are made from a structured yet stretchy fabric that accommodates your changing body. This pair has a subtle flare and a 26″ inseam designed to hit right at the ankle. Just add a pair of comfy loafers or sneakers and top with your favorite fall sweater.
These cordurory maternity pants are $118 at Nordstrom and come in brown and navy. They’re available in sizes XS-XL.
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My 20-month old is really interested in the potty, and I’m not prepared! My older kid took until like 3.5 to really get it so I don’t know how to go about training an under-2. She wants to try every morning and evening, though mostly nothing has come out. Should we just keep going like that until we progress?
I have a vent about youth sports that’s not about travel ball. In our area, a lot of the rec sports are organized around school districts. Our district is small and my daughter’s grade happens to have a lot more boys than girls, plus girls generally have lower rates of participation in many organized sports, so there’s a real problem finding enough people to run the girls’ sports. The last two sports seasons she’s signed up for, they didn’t have enough girls to field a combined team for her grade and the grade below, while the boys typically have 2 teams/grade. My daughter doesn’t seem destined for athletic greatness so this isn’t life-altering, but it’s disappointing to see a kid excited about something and wanting to participate and then not have the opportunity, and it’s hard to improve when you don’t get to do a sport consistently. It also really irks me that the opportunities for girls and boys are so unbalanced even though I realize no one is intentionally excluding the girls.
Sigh. It’s not lack of time or trying to have it all or a lack of a village or an unsupportive partner that make it hard to stay fit as a mom. It’s being sick just often enough to derail the precious progress I’ve made. It takes a month to build back up strength gains I can lose in a week of illness and in that month, the next bug has probably come around. It’s harder to eat healthy foods and exercise as much as I’d like if any one of us in the house is sick, too. Just venting.
I have tee shirts for myself and my kids to attend an event for a certain cause–similar to a Black Lives Matter, though not that. It’s a cause I fully support but I’m privileged to never encounter it firsthand. My kids are being educated about it in an age-appropriate way.
Would you put the shirt into regular rotation after the event? Does that trivialize it, or show continued support?
Is there an easy reference timeline/guideline about instructions that small children are able to understand? I’m particularly looking for how to guide small children on playing with other children.
I have several friends who had babies a year or two before I had LO. LO just started walking, so he’s now able to really interact with the other kids as opposed to just sort of watching them. Those kids are between two and four, so they can understand more complex instructions like “we share our toys” or “let him take a turn.” I’ll tell LO, don’t hit or don’t bite, and he kind of understands. I’m not sure he understands concepts like taking turns or sharing yet. But maybe I’m wrong? Or maybe I should be teaching him those things?
Is there something to help me get my arms around play at different developmental stages without doing a deep dive into a whole book about it? I feel like most moms are more hands on at correcting their kids than I am and I don’t want to look like I just don’t care that my kid is hitting their kid (or whatever).
I would refuse to attend on principle, and I don’t fill out the race and ethnicity fields on school forms either. Racial quotas in public school gifted programs back when I was a kid gave me a lasting negative impression of this sort of thing.
I will be first in line to attend a multicultural event that’s about sharing and learning. But identity politics are a big no for me.
Our public school district is holding “family listening sessions” based on race and ethnic identity. There’s a session for Asians, one for Muslims, one for Hispanics, etc. You’re supposed to sign up for whatever group you feels matches your identity. Would you attend such a session?
It feels icky to me, and I’m a left leaning never Trumper.
I’m just not convinced that segregation is the path to understanding. Other parents I’ve spoken to in the district seem pretty negative about it as well. Legitimately curious to hear thoughts from others who are not in the district.