Family Friday: Toddlers’ Wicked Good Slippers
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I’ve had a pair of L.L.Bean’s shearing slippers for several years, so I can personally attest to their long-lasting comfort. Here’s a version for littles made from the same soft shearling as those for grown-ups.
L.L.Bean’s bestselling “Wicked Good” slippers now come in toddler sizes. This bootie style stays securely on little feet while the pebbled rubber outsole provides traction. They’ll help keep your kids warm and snug all winter long.
These slippers are $54.95 and come in sizes 3/4 to 9/10. They’re available in four colors (two on sale!).
Sales of note for 1/10:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 2,400+ new women’s markdowns!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase + extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – End-of-Season Sale: clearance up to 60% off
- Cuyana – Free shipping on orders of $95+ (readers love their totes!)
- Express – All new and on sale, buy 1 get 1 50% off all women’s tailoring and jeans
- J.Crew – 25% off full-price styles, and up to 70% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory– Up to 50% off select cashmere + extra 60% off sale
- Lo & Sons– Winter sale, up to 50% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Neiman Marcus – Up to 75% off when you take an extra 40% off sale
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale! Extra 60% off sale sweaters, coats, scarves, and shoes + extra 50% all other markdowns + Red Door Deals from $24.50
I was the poster from yesterday whose daughter is being sneaky/taking things that aren’t hers – well I just got a note from her teacher that she took a piece of candy from behind the teacher’s desk when she wasn’t there and when the teacher confronted her about it, tried to say that another kid “dared” her. How would you handle this in your house?
Reply about what I wish I knew for kindergarten. The first couple of months – especially the first month – kids friendships are constantly revolving. Kids were hot and cold on each other. I made an effort to get friendly with other parents at welcome events but the kid that was “my best friend” in one week “won’t play with me!” the next week so I was glad I didn’t adopt any parents as my bestie only to have their friend turn on my kid later. I also learned not to take my kids’ self reporting on social drama as the truth. Turns out a lot of “they won’t play with me” is “they aren’t playing the game I want to play.” My social butterfly child didn’t make any best friends in the first couple months and it was difficult to watch, but became a widely loved friend to all by the end of the year.
Did anyone lean out after having kids and have kind of complicated feelings about it? I am a single mom by choice, so parenting is all on me, and I switched from a law firm where I was partner to a state government job. In all respects this is ideal for where I am right now. It pays enough and has great benefits, tons of flexibility, wfh, and no work emergencies that interfere with child care. But I grew up as the classic “gifted kid who was expected to set the world on fire” and I feel a little strange that I’m so content not doing that right now. (And never again?) It’s an identity shift that I haven’t fully reckoned with. And I feel unaccomplished as a result.
Figured some of the women here could relate because I get the sense a lot of us have similar backgrounds.
hi! inspired by the girl scout question below but don’t want to threadjack… my daughter just joined a daisy troop and the leaders say they want her (and all the girls) to sell 300 boxes of cookies. Is this normal?? 300 is…a lot of boxes of cookies. I was hoping Girl Scouts would be a fun way to make some friends, not a massive sales operation (which, let’s be honest, mostly falls on parents with the app and the digital stuff and all that…plus, she’s five!). thanks for any insight!
Anyone have baby girl names they love? We are having our third girl, and having a hard time coming up with names we like. We tend to like longer names, with lots of nickname options, that are common enough that people have heard of them but rare enough that they don’t run into lots of other kids with the same name. Our two oldest are named Christina (a family name) and Josephine, if that gives you any sense of the vibes we like.
I have a couple sets of baby accessories for the Tripp Trapp chair that I’d like to send on their way; no bites from my local Freecycle group. If anyone here is interested, I’d be happy to send them if you’d reimburse shipping costs — or I’m local to DC, if that’s easier. Post a burner if interested!
I’ve volunteered to facilitate Girl Scout meetings for my kindergartener’s troop but am not the troop leader. The troop leader is a teacher who gives me the materials for the meeting while she runs another meeting simultaneously; I don’t have wiggle room to decide activities for the hour/hour and a half that I’m with the girls. It’s a slog: they’re doing sessions on the lines of the Girl Scout law (kind and courageous, honest and fair, etc.), and the activities that I’m supposed to facilitate are reading pretty boring morality tales and then giving them coloring pages. We have to stay on-site for meetings.
Any advice on how to supplement this to make it more engaging/interesting? We’re all bored.
My husband and I both grew up in families that went to church or mass, but now as adults we’re not religious at all. We’ve recently realized that our tweens have absolutely no understanding or background in religion. This is to the point they don’t know who Jesus is or Noah’s ark or the story of Genesis or what an angel is. They don’t know the difference between Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox or Judaism. It’s a huge gap. It feels like a miss as parents that we let it go this long. Oops.
We aren’t looking to make them religious, but they do need to learn some aspects to appreciate art, history, references in literature, music, politics, culture, etc. Any suggestions? We want them to be knowledgeable enough to be respectful of those who are religious.
I’m planning to take them to a few services so they can find out what it means to go to a service, but they really do need a primer on things first (like what is prayer and how do you pray). This seems like a life skill as they’ll eventually end up at a wedding or funeral with a religious service and I don’t want them to be inappropriate.
Anyone up for a motherhood confession thread? Confess something you’re either not telling people or not proud of or both.
Mine: I’m convinced most mom guilt for taking time to herself stems from husbands who don’t pull their weight with the kids. Anyone else notice this – or do a lot of moms in your orbit with great husbands still report mom guilt every time they go for a run?
Also, I do have a friend who I think is too lenient with screen time. I will NEVER say a word to her or even imply anything but her able-bodied 5.5 year old isn’t reading, swimming, or riding a bike yet and I think they may have veered into so much Fire tablet time that he’s not getting enough time to practice his play skills.
To yesterday’s commenter who implied that Renee Good was a protestor who got what she deserved and that people should not be worried about driving in Minneapolis: it has come out that Good was on her way home from dropping her child off at school. She was not involved with a protest. She was trying to get away from it.
Eff you and anyone else who tries to portray this as anything other than what it was.
The photographer is here taking our listing photos – and it’s amazing how much more I like this house now that it is spruced up for sale! But not enough to stomach the hideous commute and the truly awful school.
My goal in the new apartment is to do a 15-minute tidy every night (it’s 800 square feet, I feel like with 3 of us involved, it should be able to be reset quickly). And delegate cleaning the bathroom to my 8 year old.