Family Friday: “Eep Op Woot” Girls’ Robot T-Shirt

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A kid wearing a Eep Op Woot\" Girls\' Robot T-Shirt.If you and your daughter aren’t thrilled with the typical girls’ clothing selection, check out Girls Will Be — they offer “[c]olors beyond pink, no sparkles or frills, imagery that breaks gender stereotypes, and a fit that lets girls be kids.” They also give girls an option that’s between most girls’ styles, which are often very fitted and very short, and the alternative of boxy, oversized boys’ clothes. The clothes from Girls Will Be are designed to let girls move freely, be comfortable, and have access to real pockets. A friend of Kat’s has raved about Girls Will Be, saying that her 8-year-old daughter loves the designs, the pockets, and the fit. (They even have shirts in adult sizes!) Today we’re featuring this robot t-shirt, which is 100% cotton, tagless, and made in the U.S.A. “Eep Op Woot” Girls’ Robot T-Shirt

P.S. The Girls Will Be website is currently telling customers, “With all the recent press, some items are sold out, but we’re making more! Click here for an inventory update and email us to get on the wait list.” If you don’t want to wait, check out PrimaryMitz Accessories, and Princess Awesome.

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Do any of you wise ladies have advice for getting rid of stubborn belly fat? A year and a half after my last pregnancy, I look 5 months pregnant – and by the end of the day, sometimes 7-8 months. I’ve been eating well and exercising and the weight comes off everywhere but there – which is exactly what I don’t want, as losing weight elsewhere just makes me look gaunt and drawn. I was getting worried enough that I had an ultrasound and everything came back fine. But no matter what I do, the weight remains there and comes off elsewhere – sometimes, the better I eat the huger my stomach looks. Which makes me wonder if I need a second opinion on whether there’s something medical going on.

I know this is shallow, but I’m getting so frustrated. Any advice?

I love this line too – t-shirts with positive messages for girls AND boys! https://www.freetobekids.com/

No experience with this situation, but can you take a newborn/baby care class together if your hospital offers one? Your husband can get instruction from not you and you can brush up on the latest recommendations. You can also discuss where you might differ from what was taught and why ahead of the sleep deprivation.

Anyone have experience with “mommy thumb”? I had carpal tunnel when I was pregnant (numb fingers/palms) and now, I think from a combination of compressions while pumping (I am done pumping as of a few weeks ago, wahoo!!!!) and a heavier 7.5 month old baby, my wrists hurt all the time, hard to make a fist, hurts when I bend hands at the wrist, etc. Dr Google tells me that this is a kind of tendinitis common in mothers. Has anyone else had this? How did you get it to go away? I got cortisone shots in my wrists while I was pregnant that helped a ton w carpal tunnel, and as awful as it sounds, I’d love a quick fix like that instead of physical therapy/not lifting my kid (how is that even possible?!)/wearing a splint or brace that would get covered in blueberry puree.

Question re: having my second kid but my husband’s first.

I’m pregnant with my second, and it will be my husband’s first. He came into our lives when my son was 4 (he’s now 7), and has basically been his father since then, but he’s never had a baby before. I’m already struggling with the fact that I’ve done this before and he hasn’t. I’m worried I will have very strong opinions about certain things and feel even more strongly about them because it’s what I did last time and it “worked”, and I really don’t want to get over-tired and hormonal and grumpy and say something I can’t take back along the lines of “well I’ve done this before and you haven’t so I have more experience!” because, quite frankly, that’s mean and hurtful. But… it’s also kind of how I feel? With our son, we’ve been collaborative and discussed parenting decisions as they come up, because we’re going through phases for the first time TOGETHER, but this time I will have already done the first four years with a kid while he never has.

I don’t want to discourage him from “researching” things and forming his own opinions by being a know-it-all, but I’m really struggling with it. I feel bad for him that we’re not doing a first time parenting journey side-by-side. I’m not sure what I’m asking, I guess has anyone been through this with a partner? Did you end up making different decisions than you did with your first? Did the kids turn out wildly different?

As far as chores go, my 10-year-old cleans her own bathroom and bedroom with some assistance, puts away her laundry, and helps with dusting the rest of the house. Some chores are not practical to assign her because she’s still too short–she can’t reach the cabinets to put away the dishes or reach the bottom of our gigantic top-loading washer (I can barely reach it without falling in). She helps with grocery shopping and occasionally cooks dinner or breakfast with a little adult help. She has been responsible for her own self-care for a long time and took on many of these tasks earlier than her peers.

More broadly, we have been working on instilling responsibility and independence from an early age by “scaffolding” experiences so she gradually experiences more responsibility and freedom. She has been ordering for herself in restaurants since she was a toddler. When she wants a snack while we are out and about, I send her to buy it herself unless we’re in a really chaotic place like the baseball stadium. We have been sending her to sleepaway camp since she was six years old, and when she was nine we let her fly alone to visit relatives. Since she was tiny I have been encouraging her to speak directly with the pediatrician, dentist, and orthodontist. I started dropping her off at the curb for her activities instead of walking her in when she was in first grade. When she is a little older I would like to have her take charge of more planning and research tasks–e.g., planning a trip to the water park, including figuring out meals and finding the best ticket discounts.

I have to admit that she does not pack her own lunches, but that’s because I remember what terribly inadequate lunches I packed myself from elementary school through high school.

Most of her friends do have chores. What I find really interesting is the difference in the freedoms her friends’ parents have chosen to give their children. She does not have a cell phone and is only allowed to use the internet for limited purposes with a kid-safe search engine. Her friends started getting cell phones at age 8 and nearly all of them had them by age 10 or 11, all with unfettered access to the internet, yet these same parents could not imagine sending their children to camp until they were 10 and disapprove of some of the books, music, and movies we allow our daughter to consume with our knowledge and guidance.

Another question prompted by the Working Moms post yesterday…

I’m curious to hear from other moms with older children about how they instill responsibility and independence in their children. My stepdaughter (who lives with us full-time) is 12 and has been packing her own lunch since she was 10, is responsible for her breakfast on weekdays, wakes up on her own (alarm clock) and is responsible for various chores (setting table, folding laundry etc.). She is also on a competitive dance team, though the schedule is not nearly as grueling as a competitive swim team.

I’m curious to hear what other people do because she has said that her peers do not have chores. When I was her age, I had many chores including preparing a simple family dinner once a week. My husband had even more responsibilities because he was the oldest child of a single mother and has three younger siblings.

Oh, good idea. We’ve been lazy about feeding him solids, but this might be a good reason to ramp that up.

Am I nuts or are these pricey non-gendered/gender-subversive/whatever kids clothes kind of unnecessary?

Today H dressed kiddo (and in a surprising twist, it was a cute, matching outfit!) — he put her in a pink skort thing (a hand me down, kinda frilly, but easy to play in) and a teal/blue/green tee with a dinosaur on it that I picked up at Target in the boys section, for St. Patricks Day. Then kiddo got oatmeal all over her shirt so I swapped it out for one with line drawings of dogs on it, white and blue and red. Also looked super cute, also allegedly for boys (it came as part of a set with overalls). Another favorite outfit was this “punk” tee (it had suspenders and pins printed on it, bought it from a pile of ‘boy’ clothes at a yard sale) with grey cheetah print leggings and neon pink high tops. Etc. etc.

Far be it from me to say that gender expression doesn’t matter, or that clothes are frivolous. But it doesn’t seem like rocket science to me, especially in these tiny kid bodies that don’t have any of the secondary sex characteristics, to just buy whatever, from boys section or girls section, and not spend a fortune to get a “girls” shirt with science on it?

Keeping a house ready to show to prospective buyers 4-5 times a day with two full time working parents and one toddler and one preteen is not an easy job. I need all the wine, all the coffee, and all the vacation right now. Jesus take the wheel.

Our 5.5-month-old had been sleeping pretty consistently 6-6 (with a dream feed before we went to bed) but every night this week has woken up at 4am. He’s usually cheerful for a while and but then cranky and clearly wanting to go back to sleep. The problem is that even when we get him to go back to sleep by 5, we’re wide awake and a week of getting up at 4 is really not my favorite. Is this just the sort of thing we need to wait out? Delayed 4 month sleep regression? Or are there some strategies you’ve had luck with?

Building off the Working Moms series yesterday, someone commented about kids needing you even more as they get older. I have two toddlers and that idea makes total sense, but is terrifying me. How have other dual-working-parent households managed this?

I’m just coming off a “pause” in my career and DH is now “pausing” his to get through all the first days of school and little kid bus logistics, but we’re running out of ways to pause. And by that, I mean we structure our days to have more flexibility. I took a less intensive lateral move instead of moving up, and he took advantage of a corporate change to take a few months between jobs and just recently was able to add another layer to his team to buy some flexibility when our second started preschool.

What do other people do?