Accessory Tuesday: Funny Song Resin Stripe Hoop Earrings
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I love earrings that show some personality. These resin stripe hoop earrings will add a little color to your 9-to-5 wardrobe.
The pink and coral combination is surprisingly versatile, especially if you typically wear neutrals. These petite hoops work equally well with black, tan, navy, or ivory ensembles. You can even take them out after hours for cocktails or on the weekends for late summer gatherings.
These earrings from Isabel Marant are $185 at Nordstrom.
Sales of note for 5/19/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Lots of markdowns on AGL (50%!), Weitzman, Tumi, Frank & Eileen, Zella, Natori, Cole Haan, Boss, Theory, Reiss (coats), Vince, Eileen Fisher, Spanx, and Frame (denim and silk blouses)
- Ann Taylor – 50% off summer-ready styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50-60% off select styles
- J.Crew – 60% off sale, and 40% off packing picks (prices as marked)
- J.Crew Factory – New arrivals, plus up to 60% off everything plus extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Daily flash sales, and lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off. 5/19’s flash sale: Jardigans down to $175-$209, dresses down to $150, blazers down to $250
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 30% off dresses, skirts, shoes, and accessories
Hi hive, what would be your best recommendations for pre-parenthood reading? I’m not worried about any particular parenting philosophy, but I do feel like I need to learn the basics of infant care. Whatever else you appreciated or turned to I’d love to hear about. Bonus if it helped your partner, too!
Label recommendations that will stay on lunchboxes/fabric snack bags? My 4.5 year old has takes a canvas lunchbox and two separate snack bags (we use the PackIt freezeable ones) to TK with her every day. I’ve been using masking tape with her name written on it to label them but I’d like a more permanent solution.
Maybe this is old news for everyone (article from August 9) but I thought the article from Vogue by Serena Williams about her retirement was an excellent read.
how do you know if something is actually bothering kiddo vs a bedtime stall tactic? my 4 year old twins are in prek and are in separate classes for the first time. we started last wednesday and twin B was also smiles coming home from school and was happy to go to school, but at bedtime on Wednesday and Thursday night wouldn’t go to sleep, kept getting out of bed, asking why she couldn’t be in the same class as her sister. Friday I took them to school and walked them in (usually our nanny takes them) and talked to the teacher who said she was doing great, and kiddo literally ran right in and started playing and didn’t even say good bye to me. kiddo was tired over the weekend, but never once said she didn’t want to go to school. she was fine sunday night. last night at dinner we went around to say what happened that day that made them smile and she said nothing and then once she was in her bed, she told me that she didn’t like the names of the kids in her class, the toys, the food, the colors, etc. and said she’d rather drop twin A off at school and stay home to play with our nanny (she’s never said that before). i told her that i was so glad she was sharing that with me, we talked for a bit and i promised her we could make time to talk about it again this morning. she fell right to sleep and this morning had no complaints about going to school. you think this is just tired talk? wanting mommy to stay in her room more before bed? how much should i indulge this vs. trying to get her to go to bed? i want her to know that it is safe to talk to me about these things and i can try to help her, but to figure out a better time to chat
Sibling advice needed…my 4.5 and 6.5yo have been struggling lately. Deliberately provoking each other, getting into each others’ faces, etc. An example from yesterday: the 4yo tried to give the 6yo something he made at school for her and she just refused to take it and walked away (they had not previously been arguing or anything), which obviously upset him and then he started following her around in order to irritate her. Whole thing ended with both in tears.
It used to be that their sibling struggles were mostly about “they are using the thing I want to use,” and I got pretty good at intervening in a “ok, let’s solve this problem together” way. But I don’t know how to intervene when the “problem” is just them randomly being jerks to each other.
I will note it’s not all bad — on Sunday they played together happily for hours making an animal hospital in their room. But they just get in this mode where they wind each other up and i don’t know how to stop it from happening (or really even understand what triggers it).
How bad is it to switch a kid for pk4 after having been in the same school only for pk3? Assume we have to move the kid *again* for kindergarden (too hard to get into our preferred program if we wait until first grade). Child is happy at school, we’ve just had some changes and the commute has become 1 hour each way for either parent (30 mins for child each way). Feel super guilty about the disruption to the child (seems selfish to solve our problem by making things harder for the kid!) but my partner is stressing that it’s taking a mental health toll at this point and I cannot take over the entire thing. We have not been able to find a reliable driver to outsource this and need to make the decision ASAP.
Our biweekly cleaners don’t normally clean our fridge, but we’re paying extra for them to do it this week and they told us we have to take all the food out of the fridge. Is that normal? Back in that day I had a cleaning lady who would clean the fridge and just take things out briefly and put them back as she worked. What do we do with all the perishable food??
What shoes are your 8/9/10ish year old girls wearing this year? Recs for sneaks and shoes please!
What do you use to practice reading? My 5 year old can read 3 and 4 letter words and has many sight words that came with the 4 weeks to read book set and we’re working through the books it came with, but do we just start with level 1 early reader books at the library after this? People just say “my kid can read” but I’m not sure what that means since there are obviously many different levels.
I know many folks kids’ have started back at school already, but curious what your best back to school tips are before we head back after Labor Day! I’ve got backpacks and some clothes and that’s really all I’ve done. Any tips for easing nerves/settling into a new routine?
My husband and I are currently both on parental leave with our second child (currently ~1 month; older is 3). My spouse goes back to work in mid-September and, his first week back, travels to Europe for a week (Sunday through Friday). I’ll still be in leave, so I’m thankful for that, but I’m worried that I’m just not going to be able to handle things, especially (1) mornings, when the two kids wake up around the same time and the baby needs to nurse while the preschooler needs to be eating breakfast, having lunch made, getting dressed, and being taken to school (all of which is done by an adult or requires heavy adult supervision) and (2) evenings, when baby again needs to nurse (and wants to do so almost constantly), bedtimes don’t match, baby often needs intervention after I’ve put her down, toddler needs to bathe at some point during the week, and preschooler also often demands post-bedtime help. This all obviously is on top of waking up with the baby however many times per night (currently one, which I hope holds, though she’s awake for 90+ minutes).
I’m hoping my mom will be able to come give me a hand, but that may not work out and I won’t know for sure until closer to the date. Assuming she can’t, I’d welcome anyone’s tips for how to manage all of this, including ideas that amount to “throw money at it”—generally we’re happy to pay for childcare and other kinds of help that will make a real difference.
Would you send your kid to therapy if you were in my shoes? My precious daughter (5) is spirited, and she also seems to be struggling with anxiety. As an example, last night, we dropped my husband off at the mechanic’s shop to pick up his car and then drove separately back home. My daughter screamed and cried the whole way home, screaming that he was never coming home, that he was going to find a new house and a new family and never come back, that he was going to marry someone else and never see her again, that he was going to die, etc. This went on for thirty minutes, and she could not be reasoned with (even when we called my husband and he assured her these fears were unfounded). This is just one example – there are many.
I’ve struggled with anxiety my entire life, but didn’t seek therapy or medication until adulthood, and I don’t want her to struggle like I have. I’m not sure if there is something I can do to help her, or if I should find her a therapist to help her. Any suggestions appreciated.