Family Friday: Stretch ID Bracelet for Kids

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We just got back from our first After Times summer vacation. Because we haven’t traveled in a while, it took me a while to find these ID bracelets we had made for both kids.

I have my own for when I go out running, but they’re also great for kids — on the metal band, we engraved their names, our names, their grandparents’ names, and everyone’s cells. You can even add medical or allergy information.

The bands come in a wide range of bright colors and include three sizes for the perfect fit as your kid grows. I hope no one will ever need to use the info on my kids’ bracelets, but it’s there just in case.

Road iD’s Stretch ID Bracelet for Kids is $24.99 and available in seven colors.

Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
  • J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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What are your best tips for dealing with negative energy family?

My in-laws are visiting next month (for 5 days, staying with us). My MIL is a negative Nancy and chronic worrier, so I’m already preparing myself for the fretting about our new car (we paid cash, can afford), gas prices, the economy, if I’m feeling okay (I’m pregnant), etc. She has a such a negative mindset and it’s draining. What are your favorite coping techniques (that don’t include leaving the house b/c that is hard given short trip and I do want her to have time with our toddler).

We have our first birthday party this weekend! A kid in my son’s daycare class (turning 3) is having a party at a local playroom. What are the norms for gifting? A book and a card, or something similar?

A friend recently lent us some baby clothes, none of which are labeled. I’m concerned I’ll forget what’s hers and what’s ours but don’t want to make any permanent changes to something I’m ultimately going to return to someone else. Suggestions for temporary labeling that will survive laundry, wear, etc, but not be a total disaster to remove before returning the clothes?

For Christmas of next year (2023), we want to rent a house with my husband’s (awesome) family — in total, eight adults, four kids, and a baby. Any ideas for good locations on the East Coast (where most of us live) to rent a nice big house where there are also fun things to do? I was thinking maybe Lake Placid? Also, has anyone used Kid & Coe to find a rental?

Fun Friday topic? I’m looking ahead to Spring Break 2023 and thinking about Costa Rica. We have two boys, 8 and 10. Does anyone have any recommendations? Do I do a hotel/resort? Airbnb? Specific areas to look at? Would love anyone’s advice.

Best travel insurance provider or how to shop for one? Do I get protection for the house and our airlines? I’ve never bought travel insurance before.. Going for a week to belize with my parents and our family of 4 and my sister and her boyfriend in October.

Kiddo is turning 2 soon, and daycare (actually county health department) requires masks in childcare settings for anyone over 2 with symptoms of illness or who’s been exposed to Covid. (She’ll be fully vaxxed by the time she turns 2, so that plus a mask will get her out of quarantine requirements). Recommendations for which masks are easiest to deal with?

I see there are a few foster parents here, and if you are willing to share, I’d love to hear more about your experiences. My husband and I were exploring the process a few years ago, but ended up with surprise twins. We now have four kids, ages 13, 10, 5, and 5, and we are starting to explore it again. Obviously talking to lots of people in real life, but I’m curious for any other personal (anonymous) thoughts you can share. If you have older bio/adopted kids in the house, how have they handled accepting foster siblings? Is it incredibly difficult to say goodbye after you’ve had the foster kids for a few years? Anything else you’d be willing share? I appreciate it.

Paging other class moms – share your best tips/advice with me. After ducking the ‘honor’ for the last 5 years I got nominated this year. I’ve already sent my co-mom a note telling her to please email me to coordinate our ‘duties’ (for the love of god I don’t have time for midday calls or lunch dates) and suggesting dates and venues for our assigned back to school events. Thankfully we don’t do individual gifts/supplies for the teachers or grades so it’ll be more coordinating donations to the central fund and reminding everyone of dates but ugh. On the bright side, I fully intend to advocate that 90% of all ‘activitites’ be held late afternoon/evenings/weekends so the working parents have a shot of attending for once (No rule against the ‘coffee chat’ being a coffee or wine chat at 6pm instead of a 9-10am time suck).

Welp. It looks like I may be headed for a new battle with the ex. He sees the kids for one weeknight dinner and every other Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon. This week, he picked the kids up from their summer camp that ended at 3pm, drove them to his house 45 minutes away, and then drove them back to my house at 7pm. When I walked past him outside, I could smell alcohol coming off of him. I asked if he had been drinking when he had the kids (forbidden under the terms of our parenting agreement), and he said, “No, but I’m about to go drink.”

He has a long history of abusing alcohol, and drove drunk when we were younger. My best guess is that he went golfing (based on what he was wearing) and drank prior to picking up the kids at 3pm. But I could smell it on him at 7pm. I know that he has been drinking again, but this is the first time I have evidence of his drinking impacting his parenting time. I’m going to request that he use remote alcohol monitoring during his parenting time only, and if he does not agree, I will take it to court for a judge to mandate. I’m so frustrated and heartbroken for my kids. They don’t know and don’t get it. I know that limiting his time with them is in their best interests. UGH.

This is a first world problem, but we have back to back trips coming up to very different climates. We’ll only be home for about 10 hours in between. Each member of our family has their own carry on suitcase and backpack. Any suggestions for making this process as smooth as possible? Is this what packing cubes are for?

Great suggestion on the Road ID for kids I had not thought about that before. I’ve purchased from their sister brand DogID. I originally got it so my dog’s tags would not jingle with a newborn around. There is so much room on these, that I was able to fit our address, along with cell phone numbers, and a neighbor was able to return our dog right away to us because of it. Highly recommend.

What are your thoughts on sending elementary aged kids away for a two-week visit at grandma’s house? 2nd and 4th grade specifically. This will be the longest by far they have been away from us. I trust grandma to watch them overnight, and she has before for one or two nights, just not for this long.

What factors should I be considering or how should I prepare the kids for this? Or am I way overthinking it, and I should just take the two-week break and run?

Kat, my home Wi-Fi is blocked by the Blog vault malicious firewall message. It seems to be fixed on the main page but not here.

So. I know I’ve written on here about being a foster parent. I also think I had shared that we were set at 2 kids… after our last kiddo left, we had decided to close our home to new kids and were happily giving away our baby stuff.

Well. The universe had other plans. I suddenly find myself with another newborn (special circumstances, I wouldn’t have said yes to 99% of calls) and am back in that 3 kid life. Also back in that ‘working full time at my big job with a newborn’ life.

Because we’re now just… blending one in to all our plans… any thoughts on the SlumberPod?