Weekend & Family Friday: Polartec Fleece Half-Zip Hoodie
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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
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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?
Am I the only one who is anti-hoodie? I hate having a hood with another coat on top, and fleece isn’t enough in my snowy winters, so it’s really only used in shoulder seasons. Given it should be below freezing next week, that shoulder season is too short to warrant hooded sweatshirts.
How do you clean your kids’ backpacks? My kiddo’s is ridiculously dirty/smelly after just two months of school. I feel like putting it in the wash is a bad idea.
Couple questions about tantrums, since my 20 month old seems to be hitting the terrible 2s early. ?
I’ve seen the advice to put your child somewhere to cool off for a minute or two to cool off, but how does that work once your child can open doors? Or in the case of a tantrum where they’re mad because they want to go somewhere (yesterday she was melting down because she wanted to go outside and we weren’t letting her), unless we were physically restraining/holding her (which seemed to only make her more upset) she would just succeed in doing what she wanted to do in the first place. We ended up putting her in her crib, which sort of worked, but I’m not sure the crib-tantrum association is a good one. Is there a better toddler containment device?
And how much should you give into their whims when you know what they want? Kiddo is pretty verbal so we usually know the cause of the meltdown. Occasionally it’s something we obviously can’t let her do for safety reasons (eg., run into the street) but usually it’s something we could do with moderate (go outside rightthisminute) or minor (let her eat with a blue spoon instead of a pink spoon) inconvenience. It’s tempting to take the path of least resistance and avoid tantrums but I don’t want to make her spoiled. I know not to reward a tantrum once it’s begun, but I guess what I’m wondering is when she asks to go outside at an inconvenient time, can we just go (to avoid a likely meltdown) or do we need to say no (and deal with the meltdown)?
My office manager is teaming up with a friend/client and one of the partners’ wives to throw me a baby shower. (It’s a small office in a small town, just trust me when I say this isn’t quite as weird as it sounds.) I’d like to get them a hostess gift to thank them, but never got the skinny on what kinds of things would be appropriate for this. Any ideas?
Talk to me about what you did for your kid’s first birthday. Our daughter will turn 1 the day after Thanksgiving. We plan to do something on Saturday instead, but I can’t decide if we want it to be a party (where we invite friends and their kids) or just family. I know she won’t “get it” either way, so I’m not really putting a ton of planning into it, whatever form it takes. Did you get a cake/let baby eat the cake? I was hoping to hold off on sugary treats a bit longer – is that stupid?
Relatedly, are there any things you wished you’d done with baby/for baby before the first birthday? I have her baby book that I add to occasionally, but feel like I’m not doing enough memory-keeping/making type things (again, is this stupid)? So much mom guilt already…
What cute things did your kids do this week? In badly need of a pick-me-up, my kids just barfed all week.
Thank you to everyone for the advice and commiseration about my croupy toddler last week. The ped did want to see her and although they confirmed the croup was very mild as far as croup goes, they gave her the oral steroid, which helped a lot. We had one more night of bad/broken sleep but we managed to get a long stretch by having me sleep on her floor and then she was pretty much back to normal. Unfortunately I caught the croup virus and it’s knocked me on my a$$ this week. I don’t have the barking cough (I guess adults don’t get that because our airways are bigger) but I haven’t felt so sick since I had the H1N1 flu a decade ago. I’m very glad it’s Friday. Hope you all are healthier than me and have a great weekend with your families!
Ladies…please wish me good luck as we take away my daughters beloved paci tonight. We’ve been reading books and talking about it, and the paci fairy is coming tonight. It’s totally time but I feel SO guilty even though it’s the best thing for her teeth. She’s been transferring some love onto a stuffed bunny so I hope that helps. But I’m very nervous we’ll get no sleep tonight….
for the last 5 months or so, our 3 year old has woken up at least once a night asking one of us to come into her room. She usually has the same type of request–tuck me back in, help me reach my water, etc. Most of these things she can really do on her own, I think she just wants reassurance that we are there. She goes right back to sleep with no trouble, but . . . this is wearing on us. We’ve tried answering her from our bed (our rooms aren’t that far apart so she can hear us), but that doesn’t work, she wants us to actually go in her room. Asking her to come to us doesn’t work because then we have to walk her back to her room. If we refuse to go in, she will get really worked up and start crying, etc. so it is easier to just do what she asks and then leave to go back to bed. I would just wait it out and see if it resolves itself but, it’s been months and we have a new baby on the way in December and I can’t imagine dealing with the baby’s wake ups in addition to the 3 yo. Advice on how to get this to stop?