Washable Workwear Wednesday: Semi-Sheer Gingham Shirt
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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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Anyone had a toddler who’s too shy to ask to go pee? She’s potty trained as long as we or her teachers take her regularly, but she will never say if she had to go otherwise and will instead have an accident. We’ve tried talking about how her twin brother and all her daycare classmates ask and she agrees that they do but says she can’t. We’ve also tried practicing and she will sometimes be willing to practice whispering “Mommy, I need to pee” but won’t even practice asking her teachers.
Is this just a wait it out and eventually she’ll ask thing or are there other tips to try?
Am in the thick of it with a 3.5 year old and 3 week old. Feeling weepy and overwhelmed. I know this is normal adjustment + baby blues, and am paying attention to see if it gets into the realm of PPD. But am looking for folks who have been there/done that and have any advice/words of encouragement for getting through next few months.
It doesn’t get fully dark in our area until 10 pm now, and it’s really messing with my toddler’s bedtime. If we put her down before about 9:30 pm, she thinks it’s a nap and wakes up an hour or two later. We have blackout curtains but they don’t make her room pitch black so she still has some sense of whether or not it’s light outside. We’ve been on one nap for several months, but have resorted to a second late afternoon/early evening nap and then just putting her down for bed around 10 pm, but then we have to wake her up in the mornings, which I feel really bad about. Plus if toddler doesn’t go down until 10, the earliest I can get to bed is about midnight, so I’m exhausted. Any advice? Also can it be September now? Ughh I loved these long summer nights until I had kids, but they’re killing me now.
My 2 year old has been waking 1 to 3x nightly after the birth if her brother 2.5 weeks ago. She always cycles thru weeks of sleeping and weeks of not, so not sure if this related to baby. husband will start traveling for work next week and I’ll have to deal with newborn and toddler night waking. Should I shorten her nap? She only naps for 90 minutes and seems tired, so not sure if that’s the right move but getting desperate. When we go in, she goes back down immediately but we’ve also had weeks where she’s screaming to get out of crib etc. Before baby
Also, any tips on what to do w newborn when putting toddler to bed? I’m trying to wear him but that makes it hard to cuddle her or lift in crib etc. My husband usually works late or travels so I’ll be doing bedtime solo.
My little one is almost 9 mo and we’ve been giving him baby cereal and purees since he was 6 mo. In addition to fruit and veggie purees, he’s also had yogurt, some shredded cheese, tiny pieces of fruit, and scrambled egg. What other foods can I give him to start to transition to “real food”? He has no teeth yet, which seems to make me feel like holding off on different foods until he has teeth, but I’m not sure why or whether that actually makes a difference. He LOVES food, so I would like to give him more table food, but the pieces he gets are so small, that it doesn’t seem to fill him up like cereal and purees do. But I’m BFing, so I know most of his sustenance at this age still comes from B-milk.
My 8 year-old ASD son was denied an IEP earlier this week on the grounds that his academics are not suffering yet and he does not have any outward behavioral problems at school. There are so many red flags but because of the failure first model, he was found not to qualify. Now we are pursuing the 504 route. It is so frustrating to see the challenges on the horizon and have the school essentially shrug at us.
Academically, he does not pay attention because he is fixated on his topic of the day (currently the Titanic), but he does fine on tests because he is intelligent enough to know the answers without needing to be taught. He gets incredibly frustrated with any schedule change or anyone not following the rules, but he saves his explosive behavior for home. He complains that he is bored on a daily basis. He has no friendships and does not understand social interactions, but he is only in 2nd grade so the social scene is not too complicated yet. He is incredibly literal and corrects everyone around him, which I can see not going over well with peers in the near future.
At the IEP meeting everyone seemed to acknowledge that there will be challenges ahead and that they will keep an eye for when they hit, but right now they will not qualify him for any assistance. His teacher commented that she has noticed a positive difference in his communication (looking her in the eye) in the last few months, and I totally give credit for that to the hour of OT that he receives every week to address the challenges of ASD. This is so frustrating!
I’ve posted before about my extremely narrow footed toddler. Talked to my MIL from whom my kiddo got her feet and MIL suggested insoles- that’s what she does and has always done to make “regular” shoes fit her narrow flat feet.
1. Is it stupid to try insoles without talking to a doc? I’ve never used them and don’t want to mess up her feet or anything. She has no fair issues.
2. My kid’s feet are narrow but the bigger problem is that the top of her foot is super low, so shoes don’t close right enough for her. The idea from MIL is that adding to the bottom of the shoe helps bridge the gap. Is this nonsense?
3. Any brand recs? She’s a size 8 toddler shoe which of course for most brands is the cusp size between 5-8 and 8.5-11.
And as always, any good narrow shoes for summer? We recently got salt waters and punched 2 extra holes in them so they close. Natives are narrow enough but her foot falls out. We like Pumas for sneakers so are OK there.
Inspired by the post above and suggestions for blackout curtains. What would you do in this situation? Next month, we will be vacationing for somewhere between 7 and 9 days (haven’t confirmed plans yet) at a family member’s beach condo, which is amazing and free. We have been 4-5 times since Kiddo was born, and the same problem occurs every trip–very bright sunlight wakes Kiddo up at 6 am.
The two smaller bedrooms face east, and they both have floor to ceiling windows across a full wall (so, maybe 9′ x 10′ of windows). There are blinds over the windows, but they don’t block all sunlight. The options I’ve come up with are (1) Allow Kiddo to sleep in the south-facing master bedroom with me and DH (there’s plenty of room for an air mattress, and it would be easy to bring), but we sacrifice privacy and romance for a week of sleep, and I’m not sure any of us would get quality sleep. (2) Put up blackout curtains, but covering approximately 90 square feet of windows is really expensive for a week. (3) Hang up towels or blankets to block the light in Kiddo’s room, which is probably against the condo rules. (4) Continue trading off 6 am wake-ups with DH and just put on some cartoons.
The living area is just as bright, if not brighter, in the morning, so the couch isn’t an option (plus the adults like to stay up late drinking wine). Kiddo will not wear an eye mask or anything on his head, ever (sensory issues may be a factor).
Am I missing some better option? If not, which of the four options would you choose?
I have feet exactly like your toddler! She has a low instep, which makes finding sandals that fit a huge pain. Honestly, I would rely primarily on sneakers even in the summer.
How do you handle spending money with nanny? I just told her that I will reimburse her at the end of the week for now, but wondering if I should leave weekly cash or get her a credit card. Also are there limits I should discuss upfront? I am fine with her taking kids to activities etc as long as it is not excessive (and we have been getting a bunch of memberships), but wondering if I should have the conversation upfront.
Does he have a formal ASD diagnosis from the his doctor? In my state, that automatically qualifies a child for an IEP. You also mentioned outside therapy. You may want to look into ABA, which may help with some of the behaviors your kiddo has. I have a high functioning ASD kid entering KG in the fall. He was in the public school preschool and had outide OT therapy, but the private ABA has worked wonders in helping him navigate socially and has helped him learn how to respond to ordinary things that other people internalize but are hard for many people with ASD. The ABA therapist has also been really helpful in advocating at school as a part of the IEP process so that the approaches taken at school match what kiddo is taught at ABA.
I read the discussion yesterday about the spectrum of fertility interventions between pineapple and IVF and wanted to add a suggestion. It’s worth seeing an RE (you may have already as you mentioned having done some tests to make sure everything is “working”) and potentially doing a round of just cycle monitoring. You may want to ask your doctor to check your thyroid levels as well. My GP thought mine were within normal range, but my RE told me they were lower than she thought optimal for getting pregnant. She put me on a low dose of Synthroid and I was successfully pregnant within a month. I stayed on it until 6 weeks after delivery. (I may have had to do a blood test at that point but I honestly don’t remember.) Before I saw my RE it had been 18 months of trying and a miscarriage. This is purely anecdotal but I thought it might be helpful. Wishing you all the best!!
Wisehive – I’ve been doing a lot of solo parenting with DS (19 months) while DH is underwater with work/business travel. All of this is fine and relatively well-managed, except we just found out DH cannot travel on July 4th due to client obligations that were just confirmed. We had plans to travel to Orlando to spend a few days with friends from out of the country who are traveling to the U.S. to take their daughter to Disney.
I’ve done a LOT of solo travel with DS, but mostly to my home city where grandparents and family are there upon arrival.
The thought of yet another flight solo, with DS, and to a place where we have to haul all the stuff, deal with the rental car solo, etc. (we rented an AirB*B that was the preference of our friends, so it’s missing some of the stuff we’d like to have there, like a PnP), or do all the re-work to rent the stuff we need, arrange airport transport, etc. all while being solo with DS with limited help (of course our friends would help, but again, different than a spouse or family) just sounds so damn unpleasant.
We also haven’t seen these friends in YEARS or met their daughter, so kind of torn. What would you do?
I’m in the minority but if I were your friends, I’d be totally fine with you not coming. It sounds like a huge hassle to travel solo with your child and your friends might not want to pitch in to help as much as your husband would have, like it sounds difficult for you and maybe it makes it less relaxing for them? However, if you know they’d want to see you solo and are depending on you go help navigate their trip since out of country etc, then I would definitely go..