Weekend & Family Friday: Kids’ Revolution 5 Sneaker
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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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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- 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?
Reposting since it was kind of late yesterday-
It’s me, the poster who had a chemical pregnancy at the end of May, immediately got pregnant again – then at my 8 week appointment today, the embryo measured 6 weeks. I know my dates are spot on and my doctor told me to come back in 10 days, but I’m mentally preparing for a miscarriage. I’m just devastated. I’m turning 36, this baby would have been exactly 3 years younger than my first kid and I was so excited. My doctor made some noises about having two miscarriages in a row is troubling and took some blood. I thought I didn’t need to worry about that until it was 3. I just feel lost and never expected any of this after having an issue-free first pregnancy and getting pregnant so easily this time around.
Any advice on getting through the next 10 days in this Schrodinger’s pregnancy sort of situation? I’m also terrified that the miscarriage will happen in between now and my appointment and that it will hurt a lot (kind of a babyish notion, I know).
Here’s something I… I can’t tell people IRL. I generally avoid talking about how people look and focus very much on feeling ‘strong’ and healthy.
People keep telling me how ‘great’ I look. I have lost weight and (more significantly) lost body fat to the point where my face has changed. (People notice on Zoom meetings…)
Downside: I have only lost weight because the combo that I am so busy with kids and work and life that I have been struggling to make myself eat. After feeding the kids, it’s just… it’s so much work to think about even pulling a salad together for myself. Added to that – when I put effort into making myself a meal, the kids eat it off my plate. Except salads… Also, the only thing that is even putting a dent in my anxiety is very intense exercise.
Spouse is an essential worker whose job has called him out of town so it’s extra hard. I’m working on getting what other help I can but… pandemic. It’s so funny – I’ve been trying to lose ‘those last 7 pounds’ for years but never expected I would feel so shitty and yet be told over and over how ‘great’ I look.
I suspect I’m the one late to the party on this but in case there is anyone else out there, a tip for easing the mental load. Most of our communications with cleaner, childminder, friends, in-laws are via WhatsApp and last weekend, after my husband repeatedly asked me questions about something, I spent 10 minutes setting up WhatsApp groups with myself, my husband, and the various third parties. Now, if the childminder needs more clothes or my husband wants to remind the cleaner of something, he can do it! It’s so nice, it’s actually reduced the nitty gritty conversations taking place in my house which left me resentful.
Also, I realized my husband doesn’t have my millennial fear of telephone calls, so he has happily taken on all instances of calling people. It’s incredible, I’d stall for ages, but he doesn’t mind it, so now he books appointments for me and calls people and asks questions.
There is a good article that ran in The Atlantic last month called “The Dudes Who Won’t Wear Masks.” I wanted to share it here because there have been some folks who think that shaming people is a good way to get them to “behave” during the pandemic. This article lays out why shame isn’t the best strategy for making progress on public health. I hope we can approach each other with empathy as we work through what might be a very long reality for us all.
Good pick, April! These seem to be popular at my kiddo’s daycare. I, too, have no problem paying a little more for a quality pair of shoes that gets worn daily. The cost per wear ends up being pretty low.
This article in Politico makes the case well:
“I’ve been really struck by how much the federal government scrambled to save the airlines — “Oh, wouldn’t it be terrible for our economy if we lost all our airlines?” I guess it wouldn’t be great. But how terrible would it be for our economy if we lost all our child care and our schools? That would be way worse than losing our airlines! That would leave not only the current working generation unable to go back to work in the same way, it would mean that we are not preparing the next generation so that they have skills. I mean, it is so substantially worse than losing your airlines. And yet we gave less money to the entire child care sector than we gave to one single airline, Delta. I don’t mean to pick on Delta, but it seems crazy that we care more about saving Delta Airlines than we do about the entire child care industry.
Child care is one of those issues where we still really think it’s a personal problem: ‘You made the choice to have those little rugrats. You deal with them.’ Compare that with elder care. We recognized it was a social issue. We built a series of nursing homes and institutional care, and we have societal grants to cover some of that through Medicaid. But with child care, we’ve said this isn’t a social issue. And I think the pandemic has revealed that it is a social issue.
Child care is not a personal issue, it’s not a women’s issue; it’s actually an economic issue. It’s an economic issue because we need to invest in children. We know early childhood education is one of the most effective investments a taxpayer could ever make. Every dollar we put into it comes back to us many, many times over in terms of higher earnings — which means that they pay for higher future taxes — and fewer negative social effects. They’re less likely to engage in crime, less likely to have learning disability issues that then taxpayers are on the hook to cover. Investing in children, making sure they get that right start, is worth it. No question.
What I find particularly worrisome is we’re sort of leaving parents on their own to figure it out. You see highly educated households with a lot of income saying, ‘OK, well, I’ve got to hire somebody. I’m going to spend money.’ And then you have people very upset about the inequality that comes from high-income people spending a lot on the problem. But leaving an entire generation of children behind is not a great solution either. We really need to say this is our first priority. And I hope everybody blows up the phones of their members of Congress and says, ‘If this is not the most important issue in your next stimulus bill, then your priorities are out of whack.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/23/child-care-crisis-pandemic-economy-impact-women-380412
Apologies if this has been discussed a million times, I haven’t been able to keep up here over the past few weeks.
I’m putting together a learning pod of 5 families and a teacher – my daughter can’t do another school year on zoom and it seems like that’s the direction our pre-K is heading in. One of the families who wants to join has a number of questions about who is going into an office and how they’re commuting. Right now, most are wfh or driving to a very limited office (think: traders on a trading floor at 5% capacity). Things might develop for better or worse between now and the end of the session in November.
How would you handle the parameters for something like this? Do you think it’s ok to say no public transportation or something like that?
I am an introvert and this pandemic is wearing me out bc of .. too many people, at all times. I spend a couple hours a day on zoom meetings. Anytime I come out to get coffee/water/food kids and nanny want to chat. As soon as work is done I am hanging out with my kids, and then with my husband until bedtime. I truly enjoy all this time and these people, but I also would like to have quiet time to myself and it’s impossible to find. I guess when I am working and not on Zoom but even then I share my office with my husband. I do go workout by myself (out of the house) every day which is nice, but doesn’t feel sufficient. I also realize this is a tiny problem in the grand-scheme of things, but i wonder if there’s anything I can do to make it better.
Putting together a list of book ideas for my two years old birthday. My husband put it together first and I asked him if any of the books featured girls. He was like, oh they’re about animals, it’s fine. I’ve started checking, and even though the books are about animals, literally every one is a “he.” AAAAAAAH. Any suggestions for cute books your two year old likes about either girls, or female animals? I often change the pronouns when I’m reading but would love not to do that for EVERY SINGLE book on the shelf.
I regret engaging in the discussion on the main page about the upstairs neighbor–single mother–whose 4 year old is running around all day and driving OP mad. She can’t understand why her neighbor won’t control her child.
Paging Anooooooon from yesterday:
I have been thinking about your post and some of the comments you received all evening. I just wanted to come back this morning to tell you that I believe you when you say that (a) you are struggling to bill what you need to bill to make counsel, (b) hiring outside help poses a risk that you are not comfortable with, and (c) that you feel like something has to give. You are right that something has to — and will eventually — give, but right now you are in control over what that something is. In another few hours, or days, or weeks, or months, the thing(s) that give on their own may end up being the thing(s) you need the most.
Reading through the information you shared with us yesterday, it sounds like your current wants versus your needs may breakdown something like this:
-needs: your job since you are currently the sole breadwinner; your health; your sanity.
-wants: to continue nursing; to have a cleaner house; some more quality time with your family where you are not doing chores (e.g., putting them to bed) or feeling resentful.
I am sure there is more you would add to the lists.
I don’t have a suggestion on what exactly you should do to get your wants and your needs met. You received plenty of suggestions yesterday, and I agree with the idea that to get all of your wants and your needs met you will need to bring someone else into the picture. But I didn’t come here to tell you that.
I came here to tell you that I was in your position and I saw that the thing that was breaking for me was my sanity. One evening a couple of weeks ago, I was lying in bed and I suddenly became aware that my mind was mulling over the idea of what would happen if I hung myself on my balcony. It’s hard to describe but I didn’t actively think about the idea, like I didn’t think “I should go out there and hang myself.” It was like the thought was already there in my brain and then my brain was churning the idea. It was like someone else had planted the idea in my brain. When I snapped out of this state it was 1 a.m., I realize that I had fallen into a kind of a mental trance that lasted 3 hours. It was one of the scariest nights of my life because I’ve never had these kinds of thoughts and my son was sleeping next to me as I became aware that my mind was churning this idea. I cried and held my son as he slept. The next day, I brought back my nanny.
I missed the last few days of discussion until late at night because we’ve now had to deal with one of the drawbacks of daycare – kids being sent home for illness and staying home until they’re fever-free for 72 hours. While I appreciate the extra precautions they’re taking in theory, it just means that we’re the ones having to again watch the kids (both kids were sent home even though the older one didn’t have a fever) for days and getting stressed out by trying to fit work in between the day. I know we’ve talked about back-up care, or the lack thereof, but for those who’ve sent their kids back to daycare – what have you done for these days? Just suck it up and have the parents switch off? Bring in local highschoolers for a couple of hours? Grandparents?
Paging KW (and others who need uniform-y clothes) – Jcrew is running 60% off their sale styles and there are lots of chinos and polos in there for boys.
not sure if I’m posting too late but any recommendations for baby scales? due in three weeks and the pediatrician recommended it to limit in person appointments (thanks covid).