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 5/19/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Lots of markdowns on AGL (50%!), Weitzman, Tumi, Frank & Eileen, Zella, Natori, Cole Haan, Boss, Theory, Reiss (coats), Vince, Eileen Fisher, Spanx, and Frame (denim and silk blouses)
- Ann Taylor – 50% off summer-ready styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50-60% off select styles
- J.Crew – 60% off sale, and 40% off packing picks (prices as marked)
- J.Crew Factory – New arrivals, plus up to 60% off everything plus extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Daily flash sales, and lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off. 5/19’s flash sale: Jardigans down to $175-$209, dresses down to $150, blazers down to $250
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 30% off dresses, skirts, shoes, and accessories
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.