Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Float & Play Bubbles Bath Toys
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My youngest doesn’t love bathing, but he always hustles to the tub if there are bath toys.
These floating bath toys are great for babies four months old and up. The four bubbles each have a cute critter or item inside. They also float, so they’re easy to find and grab. The textured rings move around the bubbles for even more fun.
Munchkin’s Float & Play Bubbles are available at Amazon and Target.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I need help with making mornings with my 4.5 year old daughter less of a battle.
We need to leave at 8:30 a.m. for school drop off. She generally wakes up any time between 6-6:30 (she has always been an early bird).
Our basic rule is – have breakfast, get completely ready for school, then you can watch a little tv. Most days this works.
There are some days – like today -where it is a complete showdown, lots of yelling (from both parents, from her) and lots of resisting to do anything.
She wanted to brush her hair herself – that is fine. But she was doing it for 15 minutes. Then she got mad/upset that I picked out her outfit (because we were running out of time and needed to get this show on the row). Complete meltdown/tantrum with lots of kicking. Note that we TRIED to let her pick her outfit out, she just wouldn’t because she insisted she wasn’t done with her hair.
We get in the car and on the way school, she says she was upset because “I wanted to make my hair pretty by myself” and I explained that she did a good job, but we needed to get out the door so that is why I helped her finish everything.
I’ve thought about some sort of visual routine chart? Any suggestions?
I (36) am currently on a birth control but my husband got a vasectomy in the spring, so I could technically stop the pill. Right now, I take the pill every day so I don’t ever get a period, which I love, especially in the summer. Besides not having to worry about taking the pill on a daily basis, what are the upsides to discontinuing? I have my annual in a couple weeks, so I will discuss it with her, but wanted to get some perspective beforehand.
Another question I thought was interesting- how much/far do you push your kids to try things they are scared of? My kids are fairly fearless (and I participate in what is a considered a daredevil sport, so they come by it pretty naturally) so we don’t usually have to. But they were visiting with cousins, and neither my husband or I are fans of my SIL because she is extremely picky about her comfort and just very difficult to be with because she’s fussy about food, temperature, environment, smells, literally everything, and complains a lot. Her daughter, like her, is also growing up to be someone who is scared to try new things or go out of her comfort zone, and it bothered my husband that his niece seemed almost proud of refusing to try something new on the playground instead of embarrassed or ashamed. While I don’t think you want kids to feel bad about being scared, it seems like a hard line to walk in terms of pushing them outside their comfort zone. And frankly we usually don’t, because our kids comfort zones usually match up with ours, lol, if not needing to be reigned in. Curious how other people handle it.
Here’s, I hope, an interesting question. Looking back, what were the signs that your partner was going to be an equal parent? What were the red flags that they were not going to do their part?
I am often on here venting/asking for advice on how to deal with my 6 year old twins, one of whom has been prone to evening violent meltdowns. there things happened this week that just made me so proud of her – (1) DH takes them to school and told me that yesterday she saw a kindergartener crying and went up to him and asked if he wanted a hug and told him it would be ok (2) her dance leotard did not arrive on time so she has to wear a tshirt to dance today and she did not have a complete and total meltdown, she was mad, but expressed it appropriately, and (3) last night at bedtime she said she wasn’t ready for bed yet, and sat quietly on the couch in our upstairs den listening to an audio story while i sat in their room to get her sister to bed.
what are your parenting wins as of late?
Pregnant friends, what are you wearing to your business causal offices these days? I only have to go in 1-2 times per week, and I find myself dreading it because I don’t really have business-y maternity clothes. I’ve been getting away with Athleta Brooklyn pants and a nice-ish tee, but wondered what you all are doing. Add in swollen feet that make it tough to do professional shoes, and it’s a mess.