Feeding Tuesday: On the Fly Water Bottle
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I like these 12-oz. water bottles so much for our 5-year-old that we have three of them! They’re top-rack dishwasher safe, leak-proof (a little clip holds the lid closed), BPA-free (although apparently that’s not enough anymore, but I give up), and when it’s closed, the spout is covered, which is a plus when your kid inevitably drops it in the dirt. It doesn’t have a straw to get lost in the dishwasher, either. This bottle is very durable — we bought our first one in 2013 and it’s still going strong. It has 400+ reviews on Amazon, 64% of which are 5-star reviews. Apparently I’m not the only parent to get excited about a kids’ water bottle — the reviews include phrases like “game changer” and “Nalgene for life!” There are at least 10 designs available (solid colors, plus owl, monster truck, shark, etc.), and the price at Amazon is $10. Nalgene On the Fly Water Bottle
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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?
Maybe I’m crazy, but I’d do it.
Q – how asinine is it to even consider traveling to another city (not far but not close) for a once in a lifetime job interview two to three weeks after my due date? This is predicated on the assumption baby comes out within a week of my actual due date (on either side), which I know is a wild card. Family would travel with me as I can’t imagine they wouldn’t. I wasn’t planning on leaving the house let alone the state for the several weeks after giving birth, but have to do my due diligence given the situation…I feel like this is an impossibility but wanted to check my gut with the hive. (And unfort the date can’t be moved, this is one of those wonky situations where the date is set in stone months/years in advance.)
Am I the only one who has been reading this site long enough to remember when Kat announced her first pregnancy? And now her son is FIVE?!?! OMG where is the time going…
My sons had a playdate today with a little girl and her au pair who live a few houses down. My boys are 18 mo and the little girl is 19 mo. My au pair reports that the boys shared all their toys, smiled the whole time, and were excellent hosts. Their daddy is a southern gentleman so I’m not surprised, but I am surprised at how intensely proud I feel of my boys! I mean, all they did was refrain from being little jerks, but somehow, still quite proud this morning!
I’d first suggest doing as much as you can the night before. Pack lunches, lay out clothes, prep your breakfast, prep his backpack, etc. I used to load things I knew I needed into the car the night before (I have a garage) – so, extra diapers/blankets/books to go to the library/etc. It helped when all I needed to grab going out the door is my purse and my son’s lunch.
Can you prioritize morning emails to those that require an urgent response vs. those that can be shelved? I’m east coast and used to work with lots of west coast people and it was pretty common for me to do a flurry of emails at night my time and vice versa.
I know you have to get ready but can you try to make it fun for him? My son plays in my bedroom while I do my hair/makeup. We sing silly songs, he ‘hides’, he plays with jewelry/toys, he jumps on the bed a bit, etc. I also try to read poems/recite books to him as I get ready/unload the dishwasher/pack lunch. Good luck – the morning routine is never fun.
I need suggestions for improving my morning routine now that my husband and I have switched drop-off/pick-up responsibilities. I do drop-off now, for the first time in three years. When I used to do drop-off, it was really easy because my son was a baby and we would leave the house at 5:30 a.m., so I took him out of his crib and put him in the car. Now that I am not leaving the house so early and my son is 4 and has more definite opinions about how he’d like to spend his morning, I am struggling to come up with a good routine.
Currently, I get up at 5:45, check my emails, and then work out at home until 6:45, and take a shower. I let my son sleep until he wakes up, which will be between 7 and 8. If he wakes up before I am done getting ready for work or while I am dealing with work emails, I let him play until I am done. If he wake up at 7:45 or later, I make him start getting ready for school. But it is a constant struggle because he is constantly asking me to play or trying to stop getting ready so he can play if I do not watch him like a hawk.
I think my issues are: (1) my colleagues on the East Coast are used to me being available in the morning, and so I feel like I am bad at my job because it is harder for me to do calls/answer emails early in the morning like I used to (I am on the West Coast); (2) I am much more productive in the morning, so I’ve lost the best part of my work day; and (3) I get home about 1.5 hours later than I used to, and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of quality time with my kid because the mornings are not quality time — I basically feel like I am constantly scolding him to try to get him out of the house, whereas in the evenings after pick-up we would play.
Any suggestions? Having my husband handle drop-off again isn’t an option; we switched because he got a new job with hours that preclude him from doing drop-off.
I like the Green Sprouts Glass Sip ‘n Straw Cup. The glass is surrounded by plastic so it doesn’t break if it falls (my daughter is given it her all but can’t break it). However, anything that touches the liquid is made of either glass or silicone to prevent chemical leeching.
I have the same top on my (grown-up) Nalgene bottle and it’s awesome. Easy to clean and drink from. My one year old daughter loves to play with it and has figured out how to open it so I have to be careful when leaving it around the kids now
Contact allergies – help? Ever since switching daycares, my youngest son has had a gruesome rash on his upper hamstrings all the way down his legs. At first, his doctors thought it was a staph infection, but when it flared back up after a long course of heavy duty antibiotics (and tested negative for staph and MRSA), they sent us to a pediatric dermatologist.
The dermatologist took exactly 1 minute to realize that my son has an allergy to polyurethane and his potty training seat at daycare (and booster seat at home) were causing the rash. So, now we’re trying to prevent any skin contact with polyurethane, which I’m realizing is pretty difficult. Any chance anyone else here has dealt with this? His daycare director said she’s going to look into a stainless steel or similar insert for him to use in the potty – in the meantime, he’s sitting on a towel…