Organizing Thursday: Battery Daddy Smart
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Toys still consume countless batteries. Instead of keeping them in a Ziploc bag like me, try a battery organizer like this one.
This battery storage case holds up to 150 batteries. The clear cover lets you see what you have, and the heavy duty latches make sure your batteries don’t come tumbling out. There’s even a built-in battery tester so you can figure out if your batteries are dead before you stick them in your kid’s favorite moving/talking/singing toy.
This battery organizer is $14.98 at Home Depot and also available at Amazon.
Sales of note for 1/16:
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- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
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- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
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- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
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- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
My 3-year-old screams a lot for “fun”. Never when they are occupied/busy, but just like in between things or out of excitement. Sometimes it legit hurts my ears. Like we were going for donuts this AM and kid was shrieking in delight. They also have minor speech delay and are in ST, but I think this is a personality thing bc they tend to be LOUD (and always have been since like 14 months).
Any tips to help curb this behavior? I’m reading How To Talk So Little Kids Listen, and have found those strategies helpful so far for general tantrums/communication, but not sure about the screaming.
Recs for cheap convertible car seat? 30lb slim 3 year old is too long now for the cosco scenera. Will need car seat at our destination, less so for the plane. Will become our spare for the grandparents.
After dinner snacks – if this is a thing that works for your family, what is available? One of my kids routinely is very hungry at bedtime (I think growth spurt, he eats a gigantic dinner as well). Typically we have allowed only the most boring foods to make sure people actually eat dinner – for us these are string cheese or banana. But at this point kid is like 90 percent string cheese and maybe three string cheeses is too much string cheese? (This is on top of an adult sized dinner plus a banana.) Other kid will not eat dinner if interesting food is available later so I think I’m just looking for ideas of other neutral foods. (Toast is other kid’s favorite and he will definitely eat toast instead of dinner, but I suppose we could have different rules for different kids.).
I have an upcoming one-day work trip where I’ll be meeting with a few different clients. It’s a two-hour train ride. I’m nursing. How would you handle pumping throughout the day?
How do you get over wanting a third kid? I’ve honestly got my hands full with my two but more to the point, I don’t think I really could physically do another pregnancy. Like, I don’t think it would kill me or the kid, but it would be real rough on my body and there is a possibility I would need additional surgeries. But I keep seeing babies and looking at old baby pics of our kids and I feel the pull! My husband would do another one but doesn’t want me to go through the pregnancy part again. I should just get a puppy right?
Does anything even use batteries other than AA and AAA anymore? I just have a set of Eneloop rechargeable AAA and AAs. I don’t buy alkaline batteries anymore because they always leak in storage. I don’t think I’ve used a larger battery since they came out with LED flashlights. We don’t even have 9V batteries for the smoke detectors because the latest set has a lithium backup battery. We have a few button-cell batteries for various remotes but that’s it.
Help me get inside my insane toddler’s brain. When he’s hysterically upset he sits in his room upstairs and calls for me, but when I come he runs away from me and tells me to go away. We do this back and forth for like 45 minutes. I know I just need to ignore him, but he is so loud. He wants comfort but is also upset with me and doesn’t understand his feelings. It happened this morning when we woke him up. I know that trying to rationalize with an irrational 3-year old is pointless, but is there something else I can do during these tantrums?
Does anyone know anything about the website Bright & Quirky? Its described as a “psychoeducation company” that is “for families raising bright kids with learning, social and emotional challenges.” They’re having a series of seminars for “Friendship Week” that sound like they could be helpful for my kid, but I don’t want to learn stuff that’s not actually helpful or even makes my child’s situation worse.
Looking for some management advice from the hive. How have your office been treating hybrid work schedules? How many required days in the office, etc. Also, if someone is out for vacation or illness, are others then required to come in to substitute to have a certain number of people in the office, etc.