Washable Workwear Wednesday: Connie Jersey Top
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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
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My oldest is applying to private kindergartens in our competitive city, and I do not want to be a crazy mom on the DC boards (not that city!) but it’s such a stressful process! She did not hit it out of the park on the IQ test thing they do, which I think is a silly thing to give a four year old anyways, so now we need her to do well on the group “playdate” which is really a test too. She’s shy and takes a while to warm up to strange adults so this entire process is rigged against her personality type (younger brother will do fine…) She did not do well in her large mothers day out type program and has really thrived in her small preschool, so I do think I’d like her to end up in private. In the world of kids who are dandelions and kids who are orchids, this one is an orchid.
First, remind me this will all be fine. Also any tips going into kindergarten group tests? I feel like the SAHMs of the world have their kids doing specific exercises so they are more ready, but DH and I both work full-time and we have three kids under 5. Agh. I don’t want that to be the reason she doesn’t do well! But I realized post-IQ test thing that we could have done more to set her up to succeed. This process stinks.
I really like this top but am large of chest and find that anything with a high neck makes me look heavy. Small chested ladies please enjoy this for me!
Oof you guys, this morning I overheard my daughter’s daycare teachers say something mildly derisive about me and my husband today (not anything terrible, just comparing us unfavorably to some other parents). Realistically, I know that everyone likes some people more than others, and you can vent even about people you like (lord knows I vent about my parents and husband, all of whom I love and like) but gah, it hurt. I feel like I’m back in middle school and being told I can’t sit at the cool girl’s table.
Does anyone have any good tips or resources for dealing with what I suspect are night terrors? Is it worth getting a sleep consultant for this sort of issue or are they outside of the scope of what they can help with? I tend to think of sleep consultants as helping with more behavioral sleep related issues. Thanks!
Four more days til I can take a pg test (HCG would give a false positive) and I’m spotting this morning. I’m so disappointed.
Long post alert. I need some help figuring out how I should approach a tough situation with my son’s daycare. Over the last month, my 16-month-old son on has been bitten by another child in his “under twos” class 4 times. On Friday, my son tried to drink out of this child’s milk cup and the classmate bit my son on the hand hard enough to leave bite marks all weekend. Yesterday when I went to pick my son up, he had large, raised purple welts covering his cheek. When I asked what happened, the teacher told me my son had been bitten again over a toy.
My son is pretty rough and tumble. The bites don’t particularly seem to bother him, and the teachers tell me he doesn’t cry when they happen. I’m trying to be reasonable about this. Both boys are too young to really understand sharing of food/toys/etc. yet, and the biter doesn’t know any better- he’s just a baby. It’s not like he’s biting out of malice. I’m trying to be empathetic to the biter and his parents. I know I would be mortified if my son were the biter, but I wouldn’t know how to correct it. Plus, I want to make sure I’ve built up good karma in case my own son has issues down the road.
When I’ve spoken to the daycare administrators about the issue, they’ve been sympathetic, but more or less dismissive. The daycare does have a biting policy. The teachers correct biters with a firm “NO” and console and treat the child who was bitten if necessary, but other than that, the biting policy is pretty vague. The biter’s parents are notified, and if the daycare isn’t able to correct the behavior over time, the parents are asked to remove the biter from the daycare. We know who the biter is (I guessed correctly), but we don’t know his parents. I live in a rural area and don’t have many other choices of daycare. This center is far and away the best one available to us, and other than this issue, we love it. My son is well-supervised and treated with love.
I really don’t want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but my husband and I are alarmed by the pattern of behavior, and by the severity of the bites. Would you do anything? If so, what?
Sort of related to the question about quiet/shy preschoolers above…Is it normal for toddlers to be more reserved at daycare than at home? My 21 month old has been in daycare for about 8 months. She never cries at drop-off and seems to really enjoy going to school. On the way home from school she is a chatterbox and will tell me about her day and use her teachers’ and classmates’ names, so I know she’s engaging with the environment and not just staring off into space all day. But she seems to not quite feel comfortable enough to be herself when she’s at school. The upside of this is that she’s much better behaved at school than home (her teachers have seen her cry precisely once – when she fell down and got hurt – and we’ve gotten effusive praise about how well she follows directions and rules…not always the case at home for sure!). But I hate that she’s already been labeled as ‘the shy kid’ by the teachers, and it doesn’t feel great when teachers tell us things like she doesn’t really speak unless spoken to directly and that she always has a serious look on her face. At home she’s a hilarious, goofy kid who is giggling and talking basically non-stop and I wish her other caregivers could see that side of her. In addition, we recently got an assessment of her skills from the school, and the teachers marked “not yet achieved” for many things she does at home, presumably because she doesn’t talk enough at school to demonstrate these skills. I know the assessment doesn’t matter and even without the additional skills they said her development is within the normal range (though below average), but it’s a little frustrating because it kind of feels like her personality is holding her back. Are there ways I can encourage her to open up more at school without her feeling like I’m trying to turn her into an improvement project? I obviously adore her and think she’s the greatest kid, I just wish others could see more of her amazing personality.
I love this top. That is all.
Daycare sent a message to us through our daycare app that baby has a rash on his face. I guess it isn’t serious or they would have called us, and they don’t seem to need us to pick him up. What am I supposed to do? Should I call our ped’s nurse line?
In all honesty, it was like, 4 years ago and I have two other kids now so it’s all a bit hazy. it was not an instant fix. maybe a week or two? Maybe more like a few weeks coupled with her growing out of it.
As i’m typing all this out I realize what a “3rd time mom” I’ve become. There was a period of 18 months or so when my youngest was born and my middle had sleep issues and my oldest was awakened by all the kurfuffle (or had bad quality sleep because of it) and was a monster during the day. I didn’t really sleep more than 3 hours at a time. Man those were dark times. I had basically forgotten about the time my oldest had night terrors (which were awful at the time but pale in comparison to The Dark Times!)