Splurge or Save Thursday: Classic Button-Front Shirt
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Old Navy’s classic button-front shirt has thousands of five-star reviews.
This wardrobe staple is made from lightweight 100% cotton twill. The crisp and tailored fit is the perfect layer for both work and weekend.
Dress it up with your sharpest blazer or dress it down with relaxed jeans.
This shirt is $8.49 (!) to $24.49 at Old Navy and comes in seven colors/patterns. It’s available in sizes XS-4X as well as tall and petite.
Sales of note for 3/2:
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off the Weekend Collection + extra 30% off sale + 30% off your purchase with extra 15% off $200+
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Would you require your 6-year-old to do an activity or two on top of school? My kid just wanted to quit ninja, she didn’t want to sign up for spring soccer, and she was being a total goofball in swimming lessons so we’re taking a break. She just switched schools mid-year which had to have been stressful, even though she seems to have adjusted well, so my instinct is to leave it for now but I worry we’re going to set up a precedent where she drops things when they get hard and doesn’t develop the skills to make them fun later on.
I love the discussions around here about family camps, but the ones mentioned (Tyler Place, Mohonk Mountain House, C U Lazy Ranch) seem super spendy. Are there other options in the US that others have tried? And maybe it’s not as fancy, maybe we bring our own sheets or don’t have housekeeping or all inclusive. I want the general vibe of a family camp with activities for kids and adults in nature.
Something I’m overthinking lately — what is the path for the kids who are smart, but not gifted, who will happily join a club, but not like start and operate a non-profit in high school, and athletic but not recruited athlete level? Aka, my beautiful, non-high achieving kids.
My husband and I were both highly successful D1 athletes who were recruited and offered scholarships at a prestigious school that we otherwise would not have been able to attend, but for being recruited, scholarship athletes. We have somehow given birth to 2 beautiful, amazing children who don’t have our athletic aptitude and/or desire to compete.
In a lot of ways, it’s lovely – our weekends are spent doing cool outdoors stuff as a family, we have an incredibly happy and cohesive family, and they don’t have a lot of the pressure that I remember having at their ages.
However, as friends of friends are starting to go through the college application process, I’m realizing how much harder their path to college will be than ours was — we are in a VHCOL high performing public school district, where kids coming out with 4.4 gpas and varsity athletics, and a million clubs aren’t getting accepted into our flagship state university and other colleges I remember being in reach (UVA, UNC, U of Michigan, are examples that come to mind).
They will be B students, with a history of clubs and rec sports, and I’m realizing how different their college path will be than mine was. In the insanity that is college admissions these days, where are the very middle of the road kids going? Is there a path for them? They are a freshman and 7th grader, so there’s time, but it’s not like someone is going to wake up and want to play varsity soccer or something.
To follow up on the discussion below… when did your kids start asking for privacy? my 8 YO boy is still very open to walking around naked. I have started to enforce that I don’t want him in the bathroom when I am showering, but he certainly has still seen my in various stages of undress.
Today I learned that my SIL signed my twins up to be baptized in two weeks, without informing me or my husband. She has a history of overstepping but this is insane, right?
We are not at all religious.
Book recs for a strong reader 1st grade kid who likes chapter books that have elements of fantasy, but also friendship stories? He’s read all the Magic Treehouse books (including Merlin Missions), Star Friends, Unicorn Academy, and is now reading Chronicles of Narnia. I think Harry Potter is probably a little advanced at this point, but open to suggestions.
Definitely still washing my almost 7 year old’s hair. She washes her body independently and I’ve been teaching her how to put the shampoo in and do the washing part of washing her hair, but on rinsing we have made no progress on. Similarly, she can put conditioner in, but I have to rinse it out. She has thick straight hair too and rinsing takes a long time to do well. If its not rinsed well its so tangly that its almost worse than not washing it.
I seem to recall doing this for myself around 8 and doing a bad job at it – my 2nd grade school pictures are the evidence of my lack of skill at hair washing!
Bathing- my 7 and 9 year old STILL want me to wash their hair, be with them in the bathroom while they bathe, etc. 9 year old likes showers and 7 year old likes baths. I’m telling myself it’s not like I’ll still be washing their hair in high school, but attempts to foster independence aren’t working- they don’t want to do it themselves, and they both have thick hair and don’t do a great job shampooing, getting soap out, etc. Advice?