Family Friday: Magna Tiles’s Eric Carle Collection
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My daughter loves Magna Tiles and she loves Eric Carle’s books — now she can have both at once!
Magna Tiles’s Eric Carle Collection features three favorites: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and The Grouchy Ladybug. Kids will experience these familiar books in a new way. The tiles help kids with storytelling and sequencing, problem solving, feelings and emotions, and much more!
These will definitely make it into my holiday shopping cart.
This Magna Tile set is $89.99 at Target. You can also purchase each set separately for $34.99.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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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These…don’t seem worth it to me? I’d rather have a plain set of magnatiles that will outlast my kid’s interest in Eric Carle and are easier to get add-on sets more.
Good morning! I’ve been thinking a lot of the posts this week about slogs and older kids and younger kids and parenting and life in general and how i really value this commenting space as a place for both people’s inputs and outputs… and I was wondering if folks would be up for a round of Rose Thorn and Bud this Friday morning? (If you haven’t run into this before, it’s just a prompt where you reflect on your life and say something good, something hard, and something you’re looking forward to. I learned it from a friend who is an elementary school teacher….)
I would love to hear yours. Doesn’t have to be a parenting thing, of course! I’ll go first below.
Rose: I had a chat with the nursery teachers and they said that my son has shown no I’ll effects of my travel and is very sweetly proud. They were reading books about the suffragettes and how someone couldn’t go to university “my mummy got a new job at university name!” He told his friends. I picked him up and he ran down the ramp and I called out “your rucksack!!” And he said “I’m in too big of a hurry to give you a cuddle!”
Thorn: husband and I are struggling slightly to reconnect on anything but kid and life admin stuff. He’s stressed about an incident at work and I’m impatient about constant conversations about it? Going to really focus this weekend on setting our life in order and making sure we’ve got fun time.
Bus: we are starting to plan travel for the end of this year and into next and I’m looking forward to being out in the world again. They are coming over to meet me at the end of this month, then Portugal, a tag along conference trip over Easter, and a few weeks in the sun over the summer. And maybe glamping again?
Has anyone has success with one of those light alarm clocks for toddlers? My nearly 2 year old is still waking before 6am. Tried putting him to bed earlier, later, having him cry it out… still waking up between 5-5:30am. Sigh.
My niece wants fleece lined tights for Christmas. She’s a teenager. Do I just buy the same ones I would get myself? We are about the same size. Is there something cooler than Millennial mom pants (there must be right??).
She’s in an anti-fancy stage so she does not want Lululemon or anything like that.
I could use all of your wise help weighing relative risk: fire v. falling. My kids share an attic bedroom and there is no bathroom up there. We sleep on the floor below. This sleeping arrangement is not flexible (small house). When our 5 year old needs to use the bathroom etc. she just comes downstairs and gets us. Now, we’re going to transition our 2.5 year old from a crib to a toddler bed. We were going to put a baby gate on the top of the attic stairs so the 2.5 year old won’t fall in the middle of the night (she’s very stair cautious by day) and teach the five year old to use it at night. But, I’ve gotten nervous that in the unlikely case of a fire the 5 year old would not be able to undo the baby gate, potentially trapping them both. WWYD? Thank you!
Does the attic bedroom have a door? If so, what about one of those door handle toddler locks instead of a gate? I’m assuming the 5 year old would be able to open it (but you’d need to check) but not the 2.5 year old. That way the 5 year old can get out to use the bathroom but there is no need for a gate on the stairs.
Also, I think the 5 year old could likely climb over the gate in the event of a fire if they couldn’t open it. My 2.5 year old is almost able to scale our stair gate.
I’m so discouraged by our parent-teacher conference for our almost 4yo today. The school is Montessori, and the teacher clearly is doing her calling — she makes clear she has taken many child ed. classes, takes this seriously, and loves the kids. So, that’s not my concern. My DS is apparently hitting and distracting others for attention, has a hard time sitting, etc. That was most of the conference. I want to cry because it tracks closely to DH, who I think has undiagnosed ADHD. When I was pregnant I had his family telling me how he was “the worst kid they’d ever met,” and that they wouldn’t watch him alone because he was such a handful. (Now, he’s very successful, good at his job, good dad, etc. so all those family members have shut up, but I didn’t forget the comments.) I guess I’m scared that this is the beginning of many school struggles over how long he’ll sit doing one task, and — if he does have ADHD, what to do/how to best handle, because DH is very opposed to medication for a kid (again, we are pretty sure he has it, so it’s not a lack of empathy on his part or something). DD is much more of a people-pleaser, outgoing and charming. I hope this isn’t the start of a childhood of people favoring her over him, and no one but us as parents seeing what a sweet, smart, and funny kid he is.
Did anyone have SPD during pregnancy and have tips for mitigating it? I had it a tiny bit with my first, not at all with my second, and all of a sudden it’s hit intensely with my third (I’m just starting the third trimester). So far I’ve noticed it’s worst after I sit for awhile and better if I walk a lot, but I’m wondering if there are exercises I should be doing or something.
Gift gut check – there’s a family that has helped organize a team for our kid all season. They send weekly reminders, reserved park space, coached the kids, and hosted parties in their yard. What kind of end of season gift would be appropriate?
Hi moms! I am a single childless poster and this page has helped me with questions about my nieces. This year my adopt a family has a teen daughter and 11 year old boy. My personal budget is $100/kid and each item is capped at $25 per the charity rules. I posted on the regular page but after reading discussion there wanted to ask more moms.
1. Teen’s top request is a bra, underwear or gift card from Victoria’s Secret. Again, capped at $25. The only size info I have is S/M adult. Should I give a PINK gift card or tangible things with a gift receipt?
2. Boy’s top request is “baseball Caps of different colors,” and his third request is an anime character’s hat. I am Uncool – my nieces are tiny – is it trendy to wear a cap with every outfit? I can’t get further info, am I better off getting hats from our local sports teams? My brothers are sporty and I think would be horrified if they got the wrong team, but mom just wrote down “different colors” so I’m wondering if it’s a trend.
Welp. My thorn above re: Covid was more accurate than I thought. Due to school-based transmission and the high number of cases, my kids’ elementary school is going remote all of next week. This stinks. I feel like I barely made it out alive when my kids were entirely remote in 2020. The school sent out a detailed schedule for synchronous learning, and I just won’t be able to make that happen for stretches next week. My son has been doing so great this year, and the change in the schedule and expectation of online learning is going to be so tough on him. Luckily my kids are with their dad saturday to sunday, so I have a bit of time to try and game plan.
Ughhhh we got a notice that our 4 yo was exposed to hand foot and mouth at daycare yesterday. She’s never had it. Parents who have been through this – how bad is it? Did you get sick too? I didn’t go to daycare, so I feel like I’m probably doomed to get it as well.