Family Friday: Campshire Ears Fleece Zip Hoodie
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Seems kind of early to be shopping for fleeces, but there’ll be a chill in the air before you know it! If your baby is ready to explore all that fall has to offer, keep them warm with this darling fleece hoodie from North Face.
This fleece, complete with ears on the hood, will turn your baby into a cuddly teddy. Made from midweight, recycled, high-pile fleece, this jacket has a zip front closure, side seam pockets, and fold-over cuffs.
North Face’s Campshire Ears Fleece is $60 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes 0-3M to 18-24M. It’s available in cornflower (light blue), “utility brown,” and a camo print.
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
Birthday gift question. My niece’s fourth birthday party is next weekend. I’ve found the absolute perfect gift to suit her interests, but it’s on preorder and would be delivered about a week and a half after the party. Gift-opening at the party will be a huge frenzy; she won’t even notice half the gifts and definitely won’t know who gave her any of them. Gifts sent or delivered to this family in the past, even special handmade ones, have gone unacknowledged so I don’t even know whether they get opened. If I send the gift, her older brother will be angry that he doesn’t get a package to open at the same time. Should I order the perfect gift and bring a card to the party saying the gift will come in the mail soon, or just get some random junky thing I can bring to the party? The kid is delightful and I want to make her happy, but her brother is quite a handful and her parents are weird/rude about gifts and gift-opening.
WWYD Birthday party invite question-
I’d love to hear what other people with September/October birthday kids do in terms of choosing deciding whom to invite to birthday parties since it straddles new friends and old?
My about to turn 5 year old just moved to a new pre-K class at her school. Her friends from her former pre-K class have all gone on to kindergarten this year. For her birthday party, should I invite all her current pre-K class (which is kind of the norm for her school.) or should I invite a combination of her friends in K and kids from her current preK class? There is a size restriction on our party location so we can’t do both. (She would love to have everyone, of course.)
On the one hand I think she would like to see her friends who are now in K, but on the other hand the kids all talk about birthday parties in class so it might be awkward for some of her current classmates to not get invited? Or maybe that’s just a life lesson for the kids. .
What series are your kids into these days? My 8yo loved Harry Potter and Percy Jackson but she’s struggling to connect with a new series. We tried Wings of Fire, Warrior Cats…nothing has stuck yet. She liked Golden Compass but then it started being too scary (kids getting ripped away from their daemons are indeed pretty horrifying). I’m willing to do a few weeks of read-aloud to “hook” her for a series that starts slow.
I need some help, and I’m really hoping this group will be nicer than the main site. My son has struggled with food for a long time—we even have pictures of him hiding under the piano bench with some his uncle’s chocolate when he was about 3 or 4. During the pandemic (when he was 9), we found a ton of wrappers under his bed—chips, candy, protein bars, and plain chips. Basically, anything snack-related. I’ve even found baking supplies like empty chocolate chip containers.
He’s 13 now. About two months ago we found more under his bed, and he swore he was just a bit stressed and it wouldn’t happen again. This morning, we just discovered another stash of wrappers in his sock drawer while trying to put away his socks — a big CVS bag full of empties.
He’s really overweight (close to 200 pounds at 5’3″). We tried seeing a dietitian, but he was unbelievably rude to her. After the pandemic, we also attempted therapy for some other stuff, and that didn’t go too well either. (He was chewing holes in all of his shirts and had other stims, and started suffering from misophonia re his brother’s chewing.)
Right now he insists he isn’t hungry for breakfast, says he skips lunch at school, then comes home and makes himself a big snack around 3, and eats again at 8 when he gets back from his rowing practice (3x a week).
My husband just wants to toss out every single dessert in the house. And to an extent, I agree. But our youngest son is 10 and autistic; he has a pretty limited diet. Sometimes he’s even underweight depending on his meds, so I feel like, while chips and candy aren’t the healthiest, at least he’s a) trying new things and b) getting in some calories.
We’ve probably made things worse by trying to limit the kids’ access to junk food—my take has been that one Halloween treat isn’t going to hurt you, and it’s a nice sweet fix after dinner, but 15 of them are a problem. My eldest has turned this into a game of trying to find all the hiding spots and getting into locked places. If it matters, we’re in NE Ohio, and we’re not super close to grocery stores, so we often buy in bulk from Costco or Sam’s Club. It’s definitely not a situation where I can just pick up a bag of chips at a corner store.
I just feel like we might be heading into some eating disorder territory here—there’s something a bit concerning about how my oldest approaches food. Plus, with Halloween and Christmas coming up, which are big candy times for my family, I’m worried. Whenever I’ve asked the pediatrician in the past, he just recommends nutritionists.
Who should I reach out to about this again—the pediatrician? Should I think of it as therapy for my son or coaching for me and my husband? I’m also trying to change my own thinking about buying a really “clean,” low-sugar diet—I’ve been focusing on protein, so I usually drink a Fairlife shake and have a protein bar almost every day. Any other tips or resources I should check out?
Once again a question re: how much do I push a kid v. let them have fun – swim school edition.
My just-turned-five-year-old is attending a group swim class. He took one over the summer, loved it, and was very cooperative during this class. Cut to the lessons that just started this week.
He does not answer the instructor when they ask his name. He refuses to jump in the water more than once. He splashes water around when he has to wait his turn. He refuses to put his head in the water. I feel like I can push back on the not answering questions and splashing water but as far as not jumping or diving I need to let the class run its course? I feel like I am overthinking this but I really want him to learn to swim.
Seems to be the day for birthday questions!
Would you let your kid skip a (rec league) soccer game for a friend’s birthday party? Relevant details: the kids are in first grade, they’re real friends who’ve had play dates outside of school (i.e., this isn’t a random classmate she barely knows) but not besties, and my kid is not a star or even above-average player and her absence should not impact the team’s success. An additional consideration is that this is a rare weekend with two games instead of the usual one and the last time this happened she was so physically exhausted she basically contributed nothing to the second game, so if we have to miss a game this is a very good one to miss.