Family Friday: Skin Tone Crayons
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When I was a kid, I never bothered coloring in the faces of the stick figures I drew — none of the crayons in my box seemed right. Thankfully, now there are crayons that reflect the skin tones of all my kids’ friends and classmates.
A splurge-worthy option worth considering are these beeswax crayons from All of Us. This set of
eight handcrafted crayons are nontoxic and contain only beeswax, plant waxes, and natural earth pigments — no paraffin, soy wax, or chemical fillers. They come in grabbable rounds for little hands or triangles for bigger ones.
These crayons are $23 for The Rounds or $21 for The Triangles. A more economical option are these from Crayola. They’re $1.39 at Target.
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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- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
What are your best low stakes mom hacks?
Yesterday I made a comment about reading my kids books in the bath and realized that we all have little random parent ‘tricks’ that might help somebody else. Not looking for life changing, but things that help.
I feel like I have a bunch, but some of my favorites are: feeding my kids their vegetable as an ‘appetizer’ while they’re doing their daily ‘I’m SSOOOO hungry, I need a snack!’ in the 8 minutes before I put dinner on the table, having exclusively white fitted sheets + fun duvets for the kids so they can make their own beds, and having a drawer full of $10 Dunkin/Starbs and $25 Target gift cards for the inevitable ‘Oh, it’s teacher appreciation day!’
I sold my big expensive double stroller and have a 4 and 2 year old (3 months since they turned those ages). I have an inexpensive umbrella for the 2 year old that I don’t like but should I just push through or is it worth buying a more expensive umbrella type stroller? What do you guys do on hikes, zoo etc for those ages?
I’ve had a rough couple of weeks and am feeling low emotionally and energy-wise. I am also solo parenting for most of the weekend. Any ideas of things to do that aren’t going to zap me? Kids are in elementary school. I know that if I go all-in on screen time and laze about the house, I’ll kick myself for wasting a nice holiday weekend.
20% off at Boden today. Hope all the US-based moms have a nice long weekend. We are off to the beach. Only a few hours of scream-filled car ride left…
I am very pregnant and DH is taking the kids out of town on vacation with my family this weekend (road trip not flying but my OB nixed it).
I know this question in various forms has been asked many times but what would you do with that time? Anything involving physical exertion is out at this point and trying to be pretty COVID cautious given baby’s impending arrival!
Is there anything you can do to prevent a cold turning into an ear infection or are some kids just prone? Kiddo started coughing Monday PM, got PCR tested Tuesday, and Wednesday night was up all night sobbing. He’s only been to the doctor 4x in 4 years, and it has always been an ear infection.
Daycare is just giving my 10month old one long nap a day but at home he is falling asleep and so ready for his first nap and gladly takes two naps. Any conversation about his naps is never productive. They mean well but I think he works them. Do I just need to give up on this? It’s an issue for me, maybe because they also often forget to put naps into the app that updates us.
My 13 month old falls asleep on his own, generally with minimal crying, but has been waking up in the middle of the night, often multiple times. He sometimes sleeps through the night so I know he *can*, but I don’t know what to do when he does wake up. We’ve been trying to let him cry it out with periodic check ins, but it goes on for so long no matter what we do. I was awake for 3 hours last night. Help! Will Taking Cara Babies’ course help with this? Or is there some other method I should try?
When your kid moves up a class at daycare do you get anything for the teacher whose class kiddo is leaving?
The JCVI (UK vaccines authority) just recommended no regular vaccination for 12-16s…much less younger groups. The testing centre I was at on Tuesday said it’s all kids getting tested…
Also no longer recommending isolation for close contacts under 5s and loosey goosey on whether self-isolation required for older kids (no masks in preschool or primary). I think their strategy is for all children to get covid before Christmas?
Just for commiseration. Started daycare again with a kid who wasn’t gone since March 2020 (part time nanny). Poor kid has cried for hours over the last few days and nearly broke my heart this morning. Our older one had hard drop offs but is also less tenacious personality-wise so it was fewer hours of crying and less crying at home on the way.