Family Friday: Dentist Play Set
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After reading a story where Peppa Pig and her brother, George, play dentist, my youngest wants to play dentist too. Instead of using his toy screwdriver to examine my teeth, perhaps this dentist play set from make-believe experts Melissa & Doug is more fitting.
This 25-piece set includes realistic looking tools for cleaning, treating cavities, and fitting braces. It even includes a set of pretend teeth so I no longer need to play patient. The back four teeth even wiggle and lift so your little one can “extract” them (yikes!). Aside from the extractions, this may also be a good way to help little ones who are a little nervous about their first trip to the dentist.
This dentist play set is $20.99 at Target.
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
TW – I took a pregnancy test yesterday and their was a faint second line. Any stories of the faint line turning stronger over coming days?
I just had my (slightly overdue) women’s health exam and my doctor found a lump. It’s small, she said 1 cm or so. She didn’t seem super concerned and said it feels benign but I have to have a mammogram and ultrasound to investigate it further. I know that the odds this is cancer are low, and even if it is cancer I’ll probably survive but it’s hard not to think about worst case scenarios. I’m only 35 and have little kids and I know breast cancer is more aggressive in younger women. Anyone been through something similar and have reassuring anecdotes?
We sent out a birthday invite for DS this week and a few days later, the class moms sent out an invite for an outing that will take place the same weekend. We’re required by school to invite the whole class to birthdays, so this means two class events in one weekend. Is it just me, or is this kind of rude? I’m pretty annoyed, actually. They’ve had plenty of open weekends to plan something, and they choose the one of our party? I’m not sure if there’s much we can do in this situation, but does anyone else find this odd? Add’l context: almost everyone in the class has a winter/ spring birthday, so it’s not like there have been other parties filling up the calendar until now.
Just got an email from the elem school music teacher titled “great news!”
The news is that the COVID ban on recorders has been lifted and kids in both 3rd and 4th grade will be getting them this year.
Hoping y’all have better news ;).
Help me to parent a tween. It’s all new to me. I am really struggling with attitude – eye roll, and just general look of unhappiness if anything is not perfectly going her way/sibling is annoying/etc. How do you manage the emotion number it does on you and how do you handle? I miss having toddlers!
My twins got this toy last year for Hannukah at age 3.5 and almost a year later it’s still a bit! Unrelated – how do I get my now 4 year old to stop picking her nose. She used to bite her fingernails and seems to have replaced that habit with this, but this is soooo gross to me, aside from the fact it’s not hygenic and it’s starting to make her nose bleed
Here is a fun question for today, I am pregnant with our first. Years ago, my partner and I thought it would be great if we named our first after our mothers’ maiden names. His mother’s maiden name (and his middle name) is Taylor and would be the first name of our child. My mother’s is another Irish surname that would be fine for a middle but is not first name appropriate. Now that the due date is real and coming closer, I am worried. My husband is a huge Swiftie. Everyone knows it, he goes to multiple tour locations, he took today off to be able to listen to Midnights at midnight. I like Ms. Swift, but I do not want her influence to be perceived as naming my child and it takes away from the honoring of our moms.
What would you do? Should I push for another name, drop Taylor to a middle and use my family’s name for a future child?
I’m considering professional family photos for the first time ever. I would hire someone and go to an outdoor location, rather than the mall-studio style. Can anyone fill me in on how it usually works, in terms of time and pricing? My only reference point is wedding photography.
When do kids start playing dress up? When I was a kid we had an awesome costume trunk, and there are cute costumes for sale this time of year. LO is definitely still too young (although he’s going trick’r’treating in a pumpkin suit), but I’m just curious if that kind of play is like a toddler thing or a school age thing?
Does anyone get annoyed when your kid asks for things? I feel like my daughter is constantly asking “did you buy X that you said you would ” or “I want to do a lemonade stand” or “I want you to pack me lunch instead of buying on Thursdays”. Idk why but it drives me bonkers, I guess it’s because I feel like we do so much but it’s never enough. She doesn’t whine about it or is rude about it but it still really gets to me and idk what that is about or how to handle
I am recently back to work with my second kid. I am feeling so stretched – there is not enough time to do my job and take care of my kids. The only thing I can see to cut to create more time is breastfeeding, so that I wouldn’t have to deal with pumping. But that makes me really sad to think about. Not sure what I’m asking for, just advice I guess.
My daughter recently turned 5 and got her first Covid vaccine this week at her 5 year appointment. (She had Covid over the summer when the vaccine for under 5 was approved. We decided to wait until she qualified for the 5-11 vaccine to get her vaccinated, since she would turn 5 about 3 months after she had Covid). The nurse gave her the wrong version of the vaccine and gave her the Pfizer bivalent Covid booster instead of the original vaccine series.
The office is telling me this isn’t a big deal, but I know that it is in their interest to downplay the error. Has anyone had this happen? My daughter seems fine but I am nervous that she isn’t getting the dosages in order (especially since this is a new vaccine). And, I am very unsettled that the office made an error in administering a vaccine.
Would you take your kid to a birthday party if they had a mild cold? We RSVP’ed yes to a birthday party this weekend, but since then my daughter (5) has developed a cold. Covid test negative, no fever, no snot, acting normally, really just a cough that she’s had for a few days. If it matters, the birthday party is for a friend in her class, and she’s been going to school all week.