Accessory Tuesday: Hair Tie Bracelet
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My left wrist feels naked without my ugly black hair elastic around it. My mom, who has always had short hair, used to say, “You always have that ‘schmatta’ (Yiddish for a tattered rag) around your wrist.” I’ve tried keeping hair elastics in my bag, in my pocket, etc., but nowhere is more convenient than my wrist. These bracelets make it so your hair elastic becomes a bracelet accessory. I think this is a pretty clever idea and something I wish I invented myself. It’s nice that it comes in three sizes and three different metal types, and I also see that it is offered in a one size fits all in aluminum that is less expensive. The pictured bracelet is $45 at Amazon (Prime eligible). Hair Tie Bracelet
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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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- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I see lots of internet resources about this but was hoping to get advice from this group. My 18MO son has always somewhat favored me over my husband, but lately it’s been extreme. Hysteric, convulsing sobs unless I’m the one doing everything. If I walk across the room he screams in panic. My husband is attentive, present, home every evening for dinner, takes him to school most days, takes him out to dinner and on errands alone… We’ve tried everything we can think of – if I have to leave the house, we let him go outside to play with my husband before I leave, but he will sit outside just wailing with no end in sight. He’s starting to feel really helpless and honestly it’s no fun for me either. Help/advice welcome. Thanks.
I have a 3 y/o who is very timid and scared. I think it’s just his personality, but now it’s gotten to a point where he ends up being left out of things he wants to do and I feel bad for him :(
When he was younger, I would take him to playdates and he would spend the entire time on my lap – literally would never leave to grab a toy or play with someone. He always watches other kids play but never feels comfortable enough to go up and start playing with them. I’ve tried to role play with him but that hasn’t seemed to help. He will only do anything if either his father or I come with him, otherwise he’ll just sit it out. We are usually game to play with him and never really force him to go off on his own because we figured he’d just grow out of it. Yesterday, he was too timid to play playdoh with the other kids (who are also 3 and who he has known since he was born) and I know he loves playdoh! If a little piece fell, he would grab that little piece and run away and play with it because he was scared and intimidated by the other kids. But they are all so nice – we have seen them pretty regularly and they aren’t at all mean or aggressive but he still has never felt confident enough to play with them. I felt bad for him because I could tell he really wanted to play with playdoh with the other kids. He’ll leave birthday parties without party favors because he is too timid to take one, even if offered by the host or even if the favors are sitting on a table and we offer to go with him to pick one up (and ofcourse if we leave without one then he later cries that he really wanted a favor).
He stays at home with a nanny but will start part time preschool in the fall. We’re very social people so he’s been around other kids and adults a decent amount. Is there anything we can or should do to help him be more confident and less timid? We just sort of assumed he would grow out of it, but he hasn’t and he’s starting to miss out on things he enjoys and it kind of breaks my heart a little!
Does anyone have tips for avoiding the Sunday night blues or similar feeling on Monday (well, today, Tuesday) morning? I’ve talked to friends about this, but they all talk about how weekends with kids are so exhausting (and they are, I get it) and how they generally can’t wait to go back to work and start the week. I never feel this way. I always feel blue and feel like it takes a Monday or Tuesday to get over it because I miss my kids. I just feel like I spend a lot of energy trying to get back into work mode and it’s frustrating.
I’m 10 weeks pregnant with my second, and only want to disclose my pregnancy at 14 weeks for a variety of reasons (timing of my annual review, neural tube testing). But my belly is already popping and my regular clothes are not fitting well. I’m worried that moving into my maternity clothes will highlight the bump rather than hide it. Ideas for hiding a bump for 4 more weeks? There should really be fashion blogs dedicated to this issue!
We potty trained our 26-month-old over the long weekend, based partially on all your encouragement to go for it given her interest. THANK YOU– it went really well overall (we used the Oh Crap method). Some accidents, of course, and some resistance, but lots of successes/forward progress as well. But I’m actually posting to vent about our daycare — I told them several times in advance that we were potty training this weekend, but they neglected to tell me that we had to bring our own potty seat for the toilet in the classroom. So we showed up this morning, she’s all excited to show her teachers how she can use the potty and…there’s no place for her to go (I did let her try on the adult potty but she was understandably kinda freaked out).
Also: has potty training moved later? I had it in my head that 2.5 was the “average” time to potty train, but was surprised to learn this morning that she is the only one in her class so far. Now I’m second-guessing whether we should have waited longer…oh well.
Due in early November. I get a magical 20 weeks maternity. My husband will take a few days off work depending on the day of the week our baby girl (!) arrives, but will go back pretty much immediately. He’s paid hourly and this will be his crazy busy season.
The plan is for my mom to arrive when he goes back to work. This probably sounds crazy, but I feel like she is coming more for her than for me. She lives near my sister so was omnipresent when all of my sister’s kids were born. I’m a plane ride away. It was her expectation that she’d stay for like a month, at my house. I’ve asked it to be week, in a hotel. Her feelings are already hurt.
Again probably crazy, but what will my mom and I do all day when the baby is a week old? She tends to be kind of hyper-active, unable to sit still and constantly doing something (usually cleaning). She loves to brag about how she had “postpartum euphoria” and had fully recovered from her v-birth in 24 hour (c-section in 48). I expect to be just sleeping all day, bfing, and resting. Meanwhile I think she’ll expect me to be up and about, going on lots of walks, etc. For example, she finds the idea of watching TV all day totally appalling. Will I end up needing her more than I think I will?
Having her not come, or come later, is not an option. It will really harm my relationship with her and we are actually really close. What were your first few weeks with baby like? Did you have help?
Anyone have a recommendation for a pair of shorteralls? Overall shorts? IDK. But I want a pair. I see some madewell ones at Nordstrom, which I’ll probably go for if I can’t find something better, but they’re a little more than I wanted to spend on something trendy. Are overalls trendy though? Maybe I’ll have them forever.
Has anyone else’s toddler just started to reject the stroller? DD is 17 months but not walking due to delay. In the past week, she fights and tries to crawl out of her stroller whenever we use it (whether we’re walking or taking it somewhere where she’s more stationary).
Re: Hair Bracelet – I loved mine but keep in mind they turn within in a year. I even took it to the my jeweler because I wore it all the time but he couldn’t fix it. He suggested an auto repair shop but of course I haven’t gotten around to that. I had the $100 original one but I might have to get the $45 amazon one.
Anyone have tips for festivals/ parades/ outdoor events with preschool age kids? Mine are 5.5 and 3 this summer. Up to this point, I’ve always taken the double stroller (a Joovy Ultralight) with us and that’s where the kids could rest when they got too tired to walk on their own (or corral them at busy events). I also could stuff extra drinks and supplies in the basket so we wouldn’t have to pay $15 for a juice box.
They’re getting a little too big for the stroller now and it feels like overkill for bigger kids. But I also don’t know if they could last for several hours at a festival without having somewhere to sit and rest, and I don’t want to schlep around a giant backpack either because it gets so hot.
What do others do? Should I bring the stroller anyway, even if just for the storage? Bring just an umbrella stroller for the younger one? Or do I just hope there’s a shaded place we could sit for a while?
Late in the day, and I’ll check the archives because I know it’s been discussed but… solo parenting tips?
I’m trying to think of things to do either by myself or with kiddo to get through the next two weeks. I have planned a play date kiddo for this weekend. I have planned brunch with an adult friend. I have scheduled my mom to give me an extra set of hands a few weeknights. I’m going to watch my shows that husband hates.
Anything else? I’m thinking Panera or Chipotle should happen for dinner at least once.
A little random and late, but what does your dish rack setup look like? We had a cheapo bamboo one that just bit the dust, but served our purposes for the most part. We’re expecting a baby in October, so I think the boon grass drying rack is in our future (not sure what size), but I can’t decide whether to go BIG or compact/simple with the traditional dish drying rack.