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In my attempts to shave a few minutes off my morning routine, I dry and style my hair before going to bed. To make sure my efforts aren’t in vain, I sleep on a silk pillowcase. However, I may also try putting my hair up with these silk scrunchies.
Made with Slipsilk, these scrunchies won’t crease your hair, and they slide out with a gentle tug. While poofy scrunchies are making a comeback, if you’re not ready to relive your middle school years, these might be a nice, updated option.
A set of six scrunchies is $39, and a set of three is $22 at Sephora. They come in several different colors and patterns.
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No Club says
What are some ideas for small (under $5) celebratory treats that are not (1) sugary treats or (2) plastic/junk that will end up in a landfill? I wanted to get something for my kids to celebrate Leap Day, but I don’t have any great ideas that don’t fit one of those categories, so we’re just going with cupcakes, but I want to get away from the association that celebration/happy occasion = sugar.
No Club says
Should add – my kids are mid elementary school age.
Anon says
Stickers, bubbles, chalk, art supplies (pens, bath crayons, play dough, etc), silly putty, jump rope, bath or pool toys, keychain for backpack
No Club says
Unfortunately all of these are plastic landfill-filling junk at the end of the day :(
Anonymous says
I don’t think you can be a Pinterest mom and a crunchy anti-stuff mom at the same time.
Anon says
Right.
Anon says
You could dissolve the chalk in water when you want to get rid of it, so that it basically disappears.
Anonymous says
Chalk, crayons, and coloring books all decompose/compost? You can also make playdough at home very easily with flour/cream of tarter/oil/water.
Anonymous says
What’s wrong with celebration = sugar? Cupcakes are fun and yummy and portion-controlled. The older I get, the more I realize it is important to enjoy life. On the other hand, I don’t think a treat is necessary to celebrate leap day. It’s fun and novel already.
Anon says
Yeah, I’m a grinch I guess, but I feel like celebrations are getting out of control these days. When I was growing up I never heard of giving kids gift baskets for any occasion except Easter, but now it seems like people are doing them for every minor holiday. Elementary schools make a big deal of Leap Day – I feel like that’s plenty of celebration. But there’s also nothing wrong with a cupcake on a special occasion (or just because).
avocado says
The celebrations are indeed out of control. My daughter’s friend’s mom showed me social media postings of “100 days to graduation” gift baskets that moms at our high school were giving their kids. We just laughed. These two are getting a graduation party and then they get to go off to their dream colleges. That will have to be enough.
#lazymom #sorrynotsorry
anon says
Oh brother. This 100% seems like an over-the-top mom thing than anything the kids are actually going to want or appreciate.
When everything is special, nothing is special.
Anon says
LOL Avocado, I know you are saying #lazymom tongue-in-cheek, but as someone who has read your posts you are definitely not!
When I would look at IG, there was an influencer who would send her kids to the first day of school with baskets/presents for the teachers, and then do over the top holiday gifts (baskets of stuff, when I’m sure teachers just wanted money/GCs). I always wondered who the heck had time for all that.
anon says
My kids just get so much sugar that it stops feeling special. Every birthday party. Every class celebration. Every everything. They eat way too much candy and still I throw out candy because it’s just too much.
Anonymous says
Useable art stuff is my go-to (markers, paints, craft sets, etc.).
anon says
This is silly, but my kids really like watching short YouTube videos. For instance, my younger kid is really into gymnastics right now so I’ll let her watch a Simone Biles routine between each song during violin practice. My older one will request to watch a T Swift song performance between each homework set. Motivating for them, but zero guilt at all for me.
anon says
My girls are really into fairy hair right now, so I’ll let them earn 10 minute blocks of me putting tinsel in their hair as a reward. You can buy packs cheap on Amazon.
We’ll also celebrate special occasions with me curling their hair. They find that super exciting.
anon says
We’ll also do MarioKart tournaments as a family after dinner.
A says
These are bouncy balls of conflict in our home, but balloons are a traditional non-sugar celebratory item.
AwayEmily says
Helium balloons forever! Also, books.
TheElms says
Would your kids enjoy a magazine or similar type puzzle book?
No Club says
This is a great idea! Recyclable and novel. Thank you :)
Anonymous says
I would do shaped sugar cookies – get an animal that leaps like a frog or bunny or kangaroo. That makes it about the leaping more than the sugar. If you totally want to avoid sugar and then have magnetic bulletin boards by their desks, maybe a small madget of a leaping animal? dollar store might have something.
TheElms says
I think you could also do non-sweet food treats. Like cook a favorite meal for that day or a meal that is more involved than your typical family meal. Homemade personal pizza could be a fun one as a sort of celebratory food option that is not sweet. Or maybe fancy snacks after school. My kid usually gets an apple and cheese as an after school snack or yogurt but loves when I make a kid charcuterie board. I do usually put something sweet on there like chocolate chips or yogurt covered raisins but you don’t have to.
Anonymous says
Homemade mini pizzas in the shape of a 9! Just cut circles of dough and strips to make the number.
Anonymous says
Or arrange toppings on a regular pizza in the shape of a 29.
octagon says
A jump rope would be perfect for leap day! Yes it’s plastic, but it’s also something that could get a lot of use and then passed on to another family.
Balloons are surprisingly still a huge hit with my 9 yo. Like 2-3 balloons, even without helium, is a solid 30 minutes of keepy-uppy entertainment.
Anon says
Id just spend some time outside being silly and leaping by around
Anonymous says
Yeah, I think in order for a leap day celebration to make sense there needs to be some leaping.
Anonymous says
Teach them to play leapfrog.
Anon says
We gave away animal-shaped erasers at my kid’s recent party and they were a huge hit
anon says
Just make a game of it – have them leap around the house? Do from leaps or ballerina leaps.
FWIW – We do stickers and have a sticker book – so they end up in a book where they can look back and admire.
Another idea is to get a piggy-bank and celebrate with coins/dollars, you could even do a scavenger hunt for them.
Anon says
Go to one of those indoor trampoline parks!
Anonymous says
This is the best idea so far
Anon says
The price on these scrunchies is absurd. $6-7 per scrunchy?! Go to CVS – you can get silky material narrow scrunchies there for easily half the price.
Anonymous says
My newly turned 3 year old has decided every piece of clothing “hurts”: socks hurt, sweatpants hurt, his jacket hurts, shoes hurt. And don’t you dare try to buckle him in an 5 point harness car seat. Any tips from parents of sensory avoidant kids? This is one in a laundry list of things this kid needs help with but I cannot spend 90 minutes getting him ready every day. I have work and other kids to help get ready.
TheElms says
Can he sleep in his clothes for the next day so you don’t have to get dressed in the morning? That leaves socks and shoes. Is it better if he does those himself? My daughter is very particular about her socks and shoes but it goes much better if she does it herself. Put the jacket in his bag and save the battle for the car seat which is the non-negotiable safety item.
Anon says
Sigh. I see that you said this is a sensory avoidant thing, but as a parent of a 3-year-old, solidarity.
My DS #2 turned 3 a couple of months ago, and everything is a fight. Like even putting on pants, he’d rather play with his stuffy. Time to eat, he just wants to play with his sibling. I just…force it – like physically put him in the carseat, hold him so we can get pants on, etc., which I get may not be an option for you.
Sometimes l Iie “Yeah we can watch XYZ later, let’s do this now”, and mostly I try to deflect or make things a game. All easier said than actually done.
Anon says
My daughter was like this only her argument was that the item of clothing “itched” her or was too tight. We switched to clothing without tags as that was a significant problem (we’d cut out tags or tagless). We switched to a larger size than what she needed (capri pants in a size up that were like full length pants or just let the full length pants bag at her ankles). We also let her pick out her clothes, which seemed to satisfy her also. For safety things, like the harness, we just held her down to buckle her as there wasn’t another choice until she met the height, weight, and age requirements to move her to another type of seat. Tantrums were loud and lengthy, but unavoidable.
Anon says
If he’s competitive, is he into the idea of being first? That was the only thing that would get my oldest moving, even before he had siblings.
Anonymous says
That’s pretty much how we get my 3.5-yo to do anything.
threenager says
i also have a newly 3 year old and every morning is a crap shoot. yesterday he only wanted to wear “cozy” things, meaning fleece pj top, fleece pants, and fuzzy socks. I was 30 min late to work. today was an adorable dream after he slept in his “morning clothes” and woke up happy as a clam. Cannot wait till we get back from spring break in a few weeks and go through another 2 weeks of morning drama.
Anonymous says
I’m sorry. I have one too and it’s just hard. No easy answer. (And I was one of these kids too!) Random piece of advice- we have found really moisturizing all skin does help as dry skin can be much more sensitive to the feel of fabric – lubriderm (the richest one) all over all skin after shower and even on non shower days, and aquaphor too. Target has some slip on sneakers that have been life changing. Hanna Anderson sweatpants used to have flat seams that rubbed less than other seams – not sure if that’s still the case (out of our budget mostly).
OP says
All his clothing is tagless and I know to only offer sweats and cozy clothes and let him choose from two options. I suspect dry skin is very much to blame. I’ve slathered him in eczema lotion but the temperature swings are making it hard to keep up. I’ll double down on trying to keep him moisturized. Thanks everyone!
Anonymous says
Can you have him lay out his own clothes the night before? My now 8 year old has honestly always been like this. For the car seat, have him buckle himself.
Anon says
i am currently under the weather. i feel like when my kids were little, like 2/3 they were very compassionate and wanted to do things to help mommy feel better…now at close to 6, it’s like they are more into themselves and don’t seem to care in the same way. is this normal? or am i raising unusually self obsessed children?
Anonymous says
That’s normal. Children are supposed to be self obsessed.
Anonymous says
This. To the endless consternation of my husband, who idolized his aloof Don Draper dad and can’t understand why our kids don’t do the same.
Anon says
At this particular thing my 6 year old is more thoughtful than she was a few years ago, but in general she’s still pretty self-centered. I think it’s normal.
Anonymous says
I probably have a unicorn child in this area but I get migraines and my 6 and 4yo know the drill. Mommy lays with an ice pack and they can watch tv quietly until the triptans kick in. They were NOT as understanding when I had norovirus last month until the very active vomiting starting.
Anonymous says
It’s developmentally normal. Also, I get wanting compassion but they’re not supposed to be taking care of you.
Anon says
I don’t think you can expect a young child to take care of you, but if they want to help I don’t see anything wrong with it.
Redux says
My kiddo is 7 and yesterday for the first time ever he included “…and you?” In his response to a question about himself. I stopped short that’s how surprised I was that he acknowledged the other person as also having an identity separate from just asking him about his. In other words: totally agree it’s developmentally appropriate for kids to be extremely self centered at this age.
Anon says
We’re ready to move on from the convertible carseat. Does anyone have any favorite high back booster/booster seats to recommend?
TheElms says
We have the Graco Transitions (which is also a FF harness) but converts to a high back booster and then booster and I like it. Its fairly light and gets a good install in all of our cars and every rental we’ve had. Normally I would think getting a FF harness is a waste because you don’t need that feature but the Transitions is reasonably priced so that bothers me less.
Anonymous says
We also have this (wanted the FF harness because we needed the big rear facing seat for the baby before older kid was big enough for a booster). Overall it is great . Note that it is very wide, wide enough that as a backless booster it will prevent three across in many vehicles such as a Civic or RAV4 – we eventually got different backless boosters so we could carpool.
Anon says
Not the OP, but I didn’t realize I needed this until I read this comment. I can get this for the 3 year old, put the 1 year old in the convertible and ditch the infant bucket seat. Thank you!!
GCA says
We like the Graco Tranzitions – it can be used as forward-facing five-point harness seat, high back booster, and backless booster. My medium-sized kindergartner is still comfortable in five-point harness mode.
Anonymous says
We’re planning to get the Clek booster with a back in a few months. Yes, they’re pricey. But you can recycle the seats with Clek, which I really appreciate. We have two Clek convertibles right now.
AwayEmily says
My kids fight over which one gets to sit in the Chicco KidFit ClearTex Plus.
CCLA says
We love the Chicco KidFit ClearTex Plus. We have also owned Peg Perego Viaggio, which was pretty good and super narrow, and the Clek Oobr which was also decent. But across three different car types, the Chicco was consistently the best fit (others would have belt retraction issues in one car but not others). Chicco is not super narrow technically all across but the rear part is, making buckling easier for kids, and the cupholders are silicone-like and can be pushed in somewhat.
Anon says
+1 for the Chicco KidFit. We love it and it easily converts from high to low back. Be aware it is booster only — if you want to harness a little longer, go with the Chicco MyFit, which will then convert to a high booster. (It isn’t technically a “convertible” seat because it doesn’t RF, but the terminology gets confusing so I wanted to mention in case you are interested in that option. It harnesses up to 54” and 65lbs)
Anonymous says
This is called a “combination” seat. FF 5-point harness to high-back booster, sometimes to also low-back booster.
anon says
+2 for Chicco Kidfit too
Anonymous says
We got the Chicco and holy moly is it SO much easier to latch (and tighten the latch) and release than our Graco 3 in 1. Like I keep considering getting rid of our older child’s 3 in 1 to trade for the Chicco.
Anon says
Chicco is our brand of choice, and we’ve had everything from the infant seat through a low back booster. Every seat is so easy to install and comfortable for the kids. We did try a Graco SlimFit LX when we had to fit three across and it was fine, but Chicco is the best (and at an affordable price compared to the “luxury” brands)
anonn says
it might depend on your car? we have a subaru and the tranzitions is hard for her to reach the buckle, we got some buckle bricks to hold it up, but it’s still pretty hard for her to do on her own, since the seat is kind of over the buckle? if you have rigid buckles maybe not an issue. we love the seat otherwise though.
Anon says
The Chicco KidFits I’ve seen look really nice. We have the above-recommended Tranzitions and also Graco Turboboosters, which I’d recommend if you only need a booster and not also the 5-point-harness.
For carpooling, I love the Cosco Rise no-back-boosters. They’re cheap, light, and fit 3 across in my small cars.
Anonymous says
I love my Graco tranzitions, because I have two three year olds and a just turned seven year old and everyone’s seat needs to be the same to avoid arguments. But if I only had the older kid, I’d just go for a cheap backless booster. I think our backless booster is Chico but I honestly have no idea: it’s in DH’s car. Do I have six car seats and three kids? Absolutely.
octagon says
We have the Chicco KidFit Zip and have been extremely happy with it. We picked for two reasons: 1/ because it’s rated until a kid is 57″ and my 9 yo still has a few inches to go before he outgrows it and 2/occasional carsickness means I absolutely needed something that was easy to clean. It’s held up well for 5 years and I expect he will be ready to stop using it before it expires in the next year. He reports it is very comfortable.