Family Friday: Kids’ VintageSoft Relaxed Zip Hoodie
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The school lost-and-found is always filled with forgotten hoodies. If your kids need some new ones for the upcoming year, Gap’s are a classic choice.
These relaxed-fit hoodies are brushed on the inside and smooth on the outside. Made from soft, cotton-blend fleece, they feature dropped shoulders and deep kanga pockets. They’re available in a dozen colors, so you can stock up now for the coming school year.
The Kids’ VintageSoft Relaxed Zip Hoodie is $49.95 full price at Gap — but comes down to $29.97 at checkout — and comes in sizes XS(4/5) to XXL(14/16).
Favorite rain pants/outfits for toddlers? Looking for something without PFAS and in a fun color.
Trying not to gossip about this to my kids, so gossiping here…
Our children’s librarians will set up books on a theme on top of the kid bookshelves. They probably have 40 books up there standing up ? And like, if someone takes one, they replenish it each night, I think. It probably rotates once a month.
Anyway, yesterday, we were at the library, and a couple came in with their early elementary school kid. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that they took at least 25 of the books. It seemed like they took anything the kid hadn’t already read. They did not even look at books not in the display; they just grabbed the theme books. Each parent had a grocery bag with them, and they just loaded them up.
I guess there’s no rule you can’t do that, but it struck me as an interesting choice!
The Lego comment late yesterday had me chuckling. DH is very into legos; his big gift for any gift giving occasion is usually a $500+ Lego set. We’ve incorporated Legos into the decor of our home. Last year, we started a holiday village and it’ll be an ongoing tradition to add to it every year. The Legos have taken over. My mother is horrified.
So if your kid doesn’t end up liking legos then think of the $160 set as a small price to pay!
I am newly pregnant, and have recently found out that the hospital I gave birth at with my first, where I mostly loved my care, has begun using AI note taking for all care. It’s apparently not even an option provided – there’s just a sign in the exam room that it’s happening and you have to have the awkward conversation if you don’t want it. I feel so strongly opposed to this – we need to be a lot more discerning about what we feed into AI systems and full audio of our reproductive health care is absolutely not it!!! I know right now it is being sold as a way to make busy doctor’s lives easier, but I see future versions of this being used to make our already terrible healthcare system so much worse. Specifically around reproductive health, I can envision scenarios where the AI is used to flag choice-related conversations in states like Texas and I just don’t want to normalize this use of AI.
When it comes down to it, this is something I feel really strongly about and I don’t see myself changing my mind on it anytime soon. I can have the awkward “no I don’t consent, sorry you have to write your own notes” conversation at every one of my prenatal appointments, or I can consider doing my maternity care through another hospital system. I like this hospital because I was able to work with midwives, but our more local hospital system doesn’t use the AI notes and I’ve heard positive feedback on at least some of their OBs. What would you do?
Another question/complaint about school apps. My husband and I have a shared email account that routes to both our inboxes and has been a gamechanger for handling life admin, including school- and childcare-related communications. We used the account to make a single, shared login for the school communication app (ParentSquare, in case it matters). My kids’ school is now saying we need to have two separate emails and two separate accounts for the app. I’m annoyed by this, as it defeats the effort to streamline and will inevitably result in direct messages from teachers going to just one of us, plus The Who’s-on-first game of figuring out whether the other one filled out the forms that were uploaded, etc. I also don’t want the school to use my personal email address rather than our shared household one for kid-related purposes.
My sense is that this requirement is for privacy/safety concerns if parents are or become separated. I’m inclined to say nope, we use this single account for child-related items, and if it’s not possible to associate a single email with two different parents, we’ll just share the login for one. Is that unduly antagonistic? I’m not trying to be a PITA, I’m just annoyed that this is one of four platforms the (screen-free, Montessori) school is using and that our effort to simplify is an issue. Reasonable or no?