Family Friday: Learn ‘N’ Climb Triangle
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My kids love playing with this climbing triangle at their cousins’ house. Kids naturally love to climb. and I’d rather they climb this than the bookshelves.
This hardwood triangle opens and locks securely in four positions for different levels of difficulty. Built on the Montessori philosophy, this climbing triangle encourages independent exploration and gross motor skill development. Add the 2-in-1 Climbing Ramp Slide for even more fun!
The Learn ‘n Climb Triangle is $199.99 at Target and comes in three finishes.
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
Any recs for early chapter book series that will keep us busy for a while? We just finished reading all 15 Dragon Girl books and an equally high number of Rescue Princesses books. (Yes they’re as dumb as they sound). We’ve done Zoey and Sassafras too. My kid is convinced she doesn’t like Magic Treehouse for some reason so those are out.
Anyone have a good ad-free, single-player chess app for kids? My kid knows the basics and would like to learn more. He has an iPad. I just don’t want him clicking through to pop-up ads or connecting to other players. This is probably a very simple ask, I just dont have it on my own device so not sure where to look!
I have a few graphic novel recommendations, all trilogies: the Zita the Spacegirl and Mighty Jack series (both by Ben Hatke) and the Katie the Catsitter series (Colleen Venable). Both my 6yo and 8yo have read all of them multiple times.
Have your kids been reading anything fun lately?
Hopefully a fun topic for a Friday – what have been your favorite trips with kids and how old were they at the time? Where do you want to go with your kids in the future?
I just got back from a trip with my one year old, and want to day dream about future family trips, especially ones that are more adventurous. Ideas I have so far are national parks trips, and a Galapagos trip for a big birthday in 10 or 15 years.
Hello! Hoping for some advice. My 2.5 year old is driving me insane. Absolutely everything is a fight with her, changing clothes, getting in the car, changing diapers, etc. I know a lot of this is age appropriate but after trying to talk to her calmly for a while I just grab her and make her sit in the car seat, or start taking clothes off, etc. If I wait for her to agree it’ll never happen and we have places to be. Is forcing her to do things the wrong approach? Am I causing her harm? We’re all sick this week and the usual confrontation is unbearable.
Dyslexia diagnosis advice- My daughter is 7 and I believe she has dyslexia (probably not severe, likely mild to moderate). We have 2 other family members who have dyslexia and she exhibits a lot of the same traits, mixing up letters, flipping words, strain and effort to read (which improves greatly when she tracks but she refuses to do it because she doesn’t want to be perceived as needing help because she doesn’t see other kids doing it), messy handwriting and spelling things the way they sound even though she has had spelling tests on the words- skool, then later skul instead of school for example, or famule, or famile instead of family. Her grades are good, and she has not failed any of the dyslexia screenings at school, so her school told me they can’t really do anything to help her. At home, she has terrible meltdowns, massive frustration, crying, scribbling wildly on piece of paper, yelling “hard” or “I don’t know!!!!” Her school tells me they see none of that, just a quiet sweet girl who plays well with others and gets 80-ish percent on most tests. I asked my daughter why she didn’t want to express some of her frustration in class, and she said, I can’t. When I pressed her more she said, if I do then I will be like X kid. X kid is the current kid in her class that has major behavior problems. She doesn’t want that kind of attention. Do I go just seek a diagnosis on my own outside of school and who would I go to?
@Kat, I no longer have a link to jump back to the main page in the menu at the top of this page. It disappeared in the comment updates a few weeks ago. Was that intentional? I can still see the one on the main page linking here.