Maternity Monday: Résumé Dress
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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?
I think this has been asked a lot before – but how do you deal with the guilt over the adjustment for a first child when you have your second? DD is 2.5 and DS is 3 weeks. DD and I have such a special relationship and I just feel awful I’m spending 90% of my time nursing/caring for baby right now. She’s gotten plenty of attention from dad and grandparents, but we can tell she’s having trouble with me not being available. I know objectively everyone will end up fine and life will probably be easier even in just another month or two, but I feel awful about upending her life. I also feel guilty that we’ve had to use more screen time to keep her occupied, which she doesn’t mind, but obviously I know isn’t the best.
Favorite alphabet and/or number apps for the iPad? We’re at the stage where recognizing and writing letters and numbers are the goals. Thanks!
Hi Hive,
I have a bunch of friends who have had their 2nd or 3rd children in the past year and I would like to get the new baby/1 year olds at this point something. They have all of the typical baby stuff since they have older siblings of the same sex, etc. so was thinking of a personalized book for the little tykes. Any ideas of which ones are good?
Thanks in advance!!
Cannot justify this purchase at 34 weeks with my last baby…but I want it. That is all.
Any personal recs for a humidifier for a kid’s room when sick? We had a cheap one from Target that I tossed because I couldn’t keep it clean. I like the idea of one that I can set the goal humidity level (e.g., babymoov, but this one doesn’t have great reviews). Ideally need one that allows me to change the direction it blows in–the only place to put it is on top of a bookshelf and I don’t want it pointed at the ceiling which is 1 ft away.
How do you make friends with the parents of kids in your child’s daycare classroom? I rarely see other parents at drop off, since people drop off over a wide range of time, and DH does pickup. Today I randomly ran into another parent and turns out she’s an acquaintance. I would like to get to know her better, but not sure how to go about doing that. Suggesting a playdate seems weird, since her child is a young infant and over a year younger than mine (it’s a mixed age classroom). Is it weird to add her on facebook?
Best winter coats or jackets that can safely be worn in a car seat? I have heard the Patagonia Nano Puff is a good option and I’m wondering if there are others out there.
My five year old daughter’s new elementary school has only auto-flush toilets. They scare her, and she had an accident last week because she refused to use them. Her teacher is super sweet and understanding, but we need to figure out a solution. We’ve talked about covering up the sensors with a post-it or sheets of toilet paper, and that might work. Any other ideas?
Really riding the struggle bus the last few weeks adjusting back to Biglaw after having my first baby. I love my job, or at least, I love the substance of my job. But ever since I’ve been back, it’s been the worst combination of extremely busy on two different cases, combined with (on one of those cases) working for a truly terrible manager who can’t give clear direction and waits until the 11th hour to review anything. This weekend was awful– the work keeps coming but of course, I don’t have childcare on the weekends and actually want to… you know, see my baby. My husband was able to take primary baby duty which was great, but he didn’t get any rest time over the weekend as a result and all our weekend chores around the house went unfinished.
I am at a bit of a loss for how to draw boundaries without coming across as checked out now that I have a kid. Up until now I’ve been a high performer and I hate to think I’m slipping. I’m a senior-ish associate and I know that if I don’t do the work, it’s basically not getting done or it will just be waiting for me in a few hours/days and then be even more of an emergency since I didn’t get to it earlier. My return also coincided with the two very reliable juniors on my team taking vacation so I am just feeling really unsupported and stressed out. Things will get better when those two folks are back in the office, but terrible manager will still be terrible and my cases will still be busy.
Help?
Does anyone have any advice based on personal experience for helping a school age child who is overweight or obese? Our 7 year old is now technically obese and I’m really struggling. I’ve never been small and have struggled with my weight at different periods, including a time when I was really obese and was a borderline binge eater (definitely disordered eating). I’m in a better place now and am pretty healthy — slightly overweight but very fit — but it’s still a hot button issue for me. Husband also tends to be big/heavy and is currently technically obese by BMI standards. He has a lot of problems with BMI as an indicator of health, which I understand and agree with to an extent, but our son is clearly a bit chubby. He doesn’t love sports, etc and is a super picky eater. We want to try to make some changes to his diet, but it isn’t like he’s drinking soda/juice all day and subsisting on junk food, so I’m somewhat at a loss – to me, his diet and activity level seem pretty similar to his smaller peers.
I got a positive pregnancy test this morning (our second). Is it normal to be totally freaking out right now? This is a closer age gap than I would have liked, but we started TTC a little earlier because it took us 7+ months to conceive the first time around. My daughter will be almost 2.5 when this baby is born. I can do this, right? Right?
Talk to me about child spacing in mid to late 30s. I’m 35 and kid is barely 1. We’d love 2 more, I’ve always wanted a big family. So I’m feeling a lot of time/age pressure, but also not feeling ready to be pregnant again and concerned about going on mat leave so soon after my first, etc. Ugh.
I wish I could have done all of this 5 years ago as it would’ve made some of these decisions easier, but it wasn’t in the cards for reasons outside my control.
Does anyone have experience with when little boys should start wearing deodorant? My son is 8.5 and I’ve noticed that after a busy day at summer camp, the little dude has a bit of a smell. I am starting him on the daily shower routine. I envision getting him to wear deodorant to be a bit of a battle because he is very sensitive to textures, the feeling of things on his skin, etc. Any ideas short of deodorant? Will this challenge become less of an issue when the weather cools off (should be in 2 weeks here in New England)?
i know people on this board (see above) often say that people are happy to have you reach out, but somehow it always fails for me. we are newish in the area where we live and are still trying to establish a friend network. i recently tried to reach out to two different people who i met through our 1 year old twins. with the first person we made plans and then she said one of her twins was sick (but her posts on social media kind of made it seem like that wasn’t true) and we tentatively rescheduled for the following week and she was going to check back in with me once she confirmed which day her parents were getting into town. the second person also said they had to check their schedule. i often feel like i am always reaching out to people and no one reaches out to me. what is kind of hard is that we live in area where a lot of people grew up here, left and came back or just never left. or also married people from this city and their entire extended family is in this city so they have HUGE networks. everyone told me it would be easier once we had kids, but i am still finding it challenging. why is making friends as an adult so hard…
We have a special boy (aged 4) who has just potty trained. He is completely nonverbal and communicative about potty training (he talks and communicates about many things just not those things). At daycare he basically gets reminded to go to the bathroom every hour and that works 100% with no accidents.
At home husband has basically been allowing child to be naked or in his underwear and not reminding him to use the bathroom leading to accidents around the house and a lot of cleaning. I do a lot of the morning care and husband does more of the evenings while I cook dinner or whatnot.
What are everyone’s thoughts? I understand husband is tired but it doesn’t excuse letting the little dude just pee on the couch.