Family Friday: Kids’ Cozy Socks
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As the evenings get cooler, my kids dig out their collections of fuzzy socks.
These cozy chenille socks from Old Navy feature notched toe seams for comfort and gripper dots on the soles. They also come in a variety of festive patterns and prints, so they’d make great stocking stuffers.
Old Navy’s Cozy Socks for Kids are on sale for $2.99 a pair.
Sales of note for 10/12
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- Nordstrom – 6,200+ new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Flash Sale: 40% off full-price purchase + 60% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Friends & Family Event: Extra 25% off sale
- Express – Big Fall Fashion Sale: 40% off everything
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off at all stores and sitewide, 20% off $150+
- Lo & Sons – Fall sale, up to 40% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Fall Refresh Event, up to 25% off (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off your entire purchase
Kind of a frivolous question, but it’s Friday. Anyone with older kids find it hard to schedule family vacations around their commitments? My two kids are still in elementary school and not overloaded with activities (they each do a couple of seasonal sports and a couple of school music things, no travel sports or year-round sports) and yet we’re already finding it pretty difficult to find time for family trips. We can currently do a week at spring or winter break, but many places we want to travel to are too far to go for just a week, and my oldest goes to middle school next year and will need to be around over winter break for their school team’s practices. Summers get filled very quickly with overnight camps, special day camps and mandatory practices and rehearsals for school sports and music. We have traveled without the kids a couple times when they’re at overnight camp and maybe the answer is we do more of that, but I really like family travel and the kids do too. I’m starting to regret not doing more travel to bucket list destinations when the kids were younger and less scheduled, daunting though it seemed at the time. Curious if others have experienced this and how you’ve handled it?
I’m finally accepting that my kindergartener needs a much earlier bedtime than my 3 year old who naps. How the heck do we actually implement this though?
Happy Friday to everyone except my MIL, who is so disappointed that we got our kids the flu vaccines.
Since there’s a few posts of kids actin a fool/being their age, just want to remind everyone what someone reminded me last year – we’re in the holiday season. There are a lot of sweets, changes to schedule, etc. going on. This is also a reminder to myself.
SIgned,
Mom who has 2 kids birthdays + Halloween + Diwali + Thanksgiving + Christmas + Other family birthdays in Q4
Please tell me that parenting gets easier. My first was an easy baby, but has been so hard as a toddler and preschooler. We had a 45 minute tantrum this morning because she wanted candy for breakfast. I did not handle it well (although nothing seemed to work) and it was a horrible way to start the day. Sometimes, I just feel like a horrible parent.
On the plus side, my baby is still easy and her smiles at me are so uplifting.
Need some advice on dealing with two year-old tantrums. We try all the stuff like giving a warning, counting down, offering choices, blah blah blah blah, but how are we supposed to follow through with “ok mommy is going to do it then!” when it fully entails wrestling a rabid crocodile? In theory, I like the idea of the parents stepping in to just do the thing, but it is both extremely physically challenging to execute and very nerve-shattering. We would have to use significant physical force to a level I am not quite comfortable with to, say, get him in the car seat and hold him in while buckling.
Also, I sat in a chair last night and he fully raged “mama MOVE!!!” with tears, pushing, and screaming. I didn’t move until my plate was done and calmly reiterated that I was using the chair but man, talk about a dinner from hell. Every bite was accompanied by violence! I didn’t even bother with holding his hands and “I won’t let you hit me” because then I wouldn’t be able to stop doing that and actually eat the dinner.
Send help and advice!
I have a low-stakes parenting question that could inspire some interesting debate. My husband I disagree but both of us are very open to the other side. Here’s the question: my 10yo saves much of her candy (eg from Halloween, Easter, etc) and then sometimes uses it to bribe her 8yo brother to do her chores (eg change her laundry, clean her room). Do we stop this or let it continue? Trying to not say what side I’m on here but I’ll tell you once others weigh in…
My 10 year old kid is absolutely obsessed with candy and I don’t know what to do about it (this predates Halloween). No weight problems or anything but I am starting to worry that they are eating a lot of candy at school and it’s pushing other things out of their diet. I’m worried going cold turkey would backfire. Advice?