Family Friday: Kids’ Velvet Smart Coat
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I kind of want this coat for myself.
This smooth velvet coat has a contrasting collar and trim, chunky buttons, and is fully lined with hand-drawn, printed fabric (it’s Boden after all). Made to last (there’s a hand-me-down label with room for more than one name), it’s easy to care for since kids should be free to be kids even when they’re dressed up.
Boden’s Velvet Smart Coat is on sale for $81.75 (marked down from $109) and comes in sizes 2-3y to 11-12y.
Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- 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
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
I’ve been volunteering as a lunch monitor at my kindergartner’s school. My kid loves having me do it and begs me to do it all the time (we’ve compromised on every other week) but lately she has a very hard time saying goodbye when it’s time for her to go back to class, and the last couple of times she’s burst into full-on tears. I’m not sure I should keep doing this. I don’t think it’s very fair to the teacher to regularly send a sobbing kid back to class for her to deal with, and also my daughter is generally a really confident, outgoing kid who has no trouble separating from us so I hate for her to be developing a reputation as a kid who cries every time she has to be apart from her mom. What do you think?
I’ve posted about my kid with the speech delay.
Well – the new ST who will work with him weekly at school is doing a first session at home right now. And just…wow? She came in with toys/stuff to play with (vs. me having things “ready”)!
It’s such a different from the EI model I experienced — in my case, I felt I had to facilitate while the (wonderful) SLP watched from her computers screen and provided edits/suggestions. Often times, her screen would not even function properly, and we’d see her but she could not see us…
They are downstairs playing/talking and I could actually get back to work!
Our 9 year old is encountering some minor mean girl behavior — things like friends saying she can’t sit with them at lunch. At this point it still feels in the social squabble realm, not bullying. DH (an only child) is having a really hard time with it and is (in my view) overreacting, wanting to talk to the other parents and the school to prevent any exclusion. Our kid is still invited to birthday parties and has a lot of friends and doesn’t seem to be overly upset. I think DH would benefit from reading articles or a book on girl behavior and how to best support our daughter. Any suggestions or resources? I don’t want to downplay the impact on her, it’s definitely something we’re keeping an eye on, but I don’t want to unnecessarily escalate things when kids change their moods every week or two.
Parents of trick or treaters who still need a parent with them – how do you handle it with your spouse? Does one of you go with the kids and the other stay home to hand out candy? Or do you go together and just leave a bowl out? Some other solution I’m not thinking of?
My husband doesn’t really like Halloween so he stays home to hand out candy, while I go with the kids (which I love!). It works for us, but curious if others think this is weird and that mostly people without trick-or-treat-age kids are the ones who stay home.
Has anyone applied for PFML benefits in the State of MA recently? I’m banging my head against the wall trying to navigate this paperwork. I’m going to give birth in 3 weeks so maybe it’s a me-issue but this feels impossible to fill out correctly without handholding. My HR is the completely opposite of helpful and, despite having a large MA presence, they don’t know diddlysquat about the MA leave process.
Just in case this hasn’t occurred to anyone else, I did a purge in my kid’s room of old books, toys, games, and puzzles, and thought to offer everything to their teachers from both this year and last year. It all went! An easy way for them to add to their classroom and super easy for me to just send it all with my kids to school.