Weekend Open Thread
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Just because the sun is rising later and setting earlier doesn’t mean you have to give up your evening stroll or run.
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This thermal hoodie is $120 and comes in sizes XS–XXL.
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Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
We received an autism diagnosis for our 4-yo last week. I’m not really sure what to do with it? He’s already in OT and ST, and we’re on the waitlist to discuss services with the county/public school system. In the meantime, I suppose it’s just helpful information for us. One thing I’m not sure about is who I can/should share this with? I have a consultation with a therapist (for myself) set up for this evening, and I’ll ask her that as well. Most people don’t really need to know, and I almost hesitate to tell the grandparents in case they have outdated ideas about what it means. Any thoughts from folks who’ve been through this would be great, thanks!
I have to preface this by saying I know this is a first world problem, but does anyone have thoughts or advice about telling grandparents to take a step back when they’re being very helpful and not doing anything wrong?
My parents moved to our city in 2020 and have been very involved with our family. It’s been a huge help for me and DH, my kids adore them, and they’re very respectful of our rules and parenting choices (a bit generous with sweets, but that’s not a big issue). We see a ton of them, and it worked very well for the last few years when kids were in daycare and the world was still getting back to normal post-Covid. But as kids get older and our social and activity calendar continues to fill up, I’m finding myself feeling smothered by how much time they spend with us and how often they have our kids at their place. This was touched on in the BOBW thread today, but I think there’s just something about bigger kids and bigger problems that is fundamentally different than parenting little kids. I was happy to hand off a baby or toddler to my parents for a diaper change or story time, but now that my kids are getting to be school age, I want to be the one helping with homework and talking them through friendship drama and it’s hard having my parents (my mom, especially) constantly around being present in these kinds of conversations, even though she’s well-intentioned and not undermining what I’m saying. My husband commented the other day “your mom retired, and is now treating raising our kids as her full-time job” and that’s basically how I feel too. And it doesn’t feel fair to me…she already got to do this. I want to raise my own kids! At the same time, I’m also cognizant of the fact that we don’t hesitate to use them as baby-sitting in situations in which it helps us (summer care, kid-free trips, etc.), and I don’t want to make them feel like we only want them around as childcare providers (and that isn’t true, I genuinely do enjoy spending time with them! Just not to this degree). Is there a way to deliver this message in a way that won’t crush them? They don’t have the strongest EQ, to put it mildly, so I don’t think any kind of hinting will work. I think the only way to get through to them is to be very direct and I’m worried it will really hurt their feelings. But I don’t really want to continue on this way.
May repost Monday for more views, but a question: my one and only is 5 and started K this year. She’s had two pee accidents at school this year. School isn’t even a month old at this point (started day after Labor Day) so I’m a little thrown.
Not exaggerating when I say we haven’t had an accident of any kind since she was potty trained in 2021 – not day or night – so over 2 years. She’s been to preschool so she (theoretically) is used to having to wait for the bathroom. She’s vocal, loves her teacher and classroom, so it’s not shyness or anything.
The K classroom has one bathroom right outside the room. If that one is occupied and she was to say “it’s an emergency” the para would take her to another potty down the hall – something I know she’s successfully done before because she told me about going to the “big kid bathroom”. But, evidently both times DD didn’t say it was emergency level and then there was an accident.
We’re going to work with her to help her recognize the need to pee before it’s accident-level but is there any reason this is something I’m not thinking of? Is it just routines and the overall newness of K?