Family Friday: Outer Space Glow-in-the-Dark Puzzle
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My youngest would love this large floor puzzle, especially because it glows in the dark!
Simply expose this 48-piece jumbo puzzle to bright light, turn off the lights, and watch hidden, glow-in-the-dark pictures appear! Puzzles are a great way for little ones to work on their fine motor, problem solving, and logic skills.
This Melissa & Doug puzzle is $14.19 at Target.
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
My 6th grader struggles a lot with not loving academics, which makes it hard to bring her A game to school. She will complete assignments and study for tests a little, but she will rush through it and not give it her best because she finds it boring and so easily gets off-task/distracted . How can I help her learn good habits/to not get off-task? I want to work with her to learn good study habits in middle school before the grades start to count in high school.
As a follow up for the NYC question – any must dos for kids 5 and 7?
I’ve been a few times with my husband but never with kids.
Also thanks for the responses yesterday. I think I’m going to brave walking. If the 5 year old is motivated (and I think he is) he can hack it.
So, following up on the conversation from yesterday (or earlier this week? What is time?) on kids/emotional regulation. This morning, my kid (4 years, 1 month) wanted to play with something because we actually had a 10 minute chunk of time before shoes/coat/out the door, and I was like “You can play with X, but not Y”, and he took a deep breath and was like “Okay, I’ll play with Y later.”
This would not have happened even 1 month ago.
How do you teach kids to clean up? Mine are 7 and 9 and pretty hopeless at it. Like just messy piles of crap when they’re asked to tidy their room. I remember ironing and vacuuming at that age (8-9), but especially the 9 year old just doesn’t give a fig about anything being orderly. If I ask her to pick up her stuff, she just shoves everything into a drawer, a corner or on top of a table/chair. It’s like “pick up” is taken literally no matter what I try to explain. Is there something I could do to help or is this just their personality?
I wish my kids liked to do puzzles. I loved doing them with my mom as a kid but my kids have zero interest
Do any of you have kids who really don’t love to drink water? We sometimes squeeze lime or similar in, but any other suggestions? Something that’s not entirely sugar? Their friends at school have like Gatorade flavor packs, but I am reluctant to go down that route.
Ugh, 90mph winds. There’s a trampoline on the loose. Our front fence is down. Shelter in place until 6:00pm tonight, but I can see loads of cars passing from my window.
We’re hosting on Sunday, so hoping it’ll calm down tonight so we can get out for ingredients tomorrow.