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Last weekend SavvyMom joined hundreds of mom brands and businesses at the International Centre for the 12th Annual Spring BabyTime Show. It was a great weekend and we met a lot of other interesting companies and vendors.
It goes without saying that we most enjoyed meeting the ladies from Please Mum, our show partners this year. Please Mum is a Canadian retailer started by a mom entrepreneur with over 90 stores across the country. They sell adorable and affordable kids’ clothes (in case you haven’t heard of them, but I’m pretty sure you have). Our partnership is based on an exclusive contest we are running with them for SavvyMom readers—a chance to win a $500 shopping spree! This contest is running online and is being promoted in stores as well throughout the month of May.
The BabyTime show was a great opportunity to launch the contest and get some buzz going. And since we like to ‘super-size’ everything we do, we decided it would be fun to showcase some of the fabulous fashions for kids by hosting a fashion show. So we did just that. All of the SavvyMoms from our office with babies and toddlers came to the main stage to show off their kids in the latest Please Mum summer fashions.
Thank you to Ally, Madeline, Riley, Josh and Mathew, who all got up and smiled, waved and danced in front of all those strangers! And thank you to our savvy staff who brought their beauties to the show and accompanied them out on the catwalk!
We’ve been telling you about it for the past few weeks on SavvyMom, we put on a big display a booth at the Toronto BabyTime Show and we even hosted a fashion show to help promote it. So you can see that we’re very excited about our partnership with Please Mum and the SavvyMom Stylish Kid Contest we are running with them this month.
We teamed up with Please Mum because we think it’s a great Canadian brand (run by a mom entrepreneur) that makes great clothes for kids that are fun, stylish and practical. (Did we mention they’re affordable, too?)
And for you, our loyal readers, we are offering a chance to win a shopping spree worth $500. With the great deals and discounts at Please Mum, you can buy a lot of fabulous kids’ clothes with that!
So if you still haven’t entered, go ahead and do it now before the contest ends. Haven’t you always wanted to go on a shopping spree?
We are thrilled, delighted and pleased as punch to announce the winner of the SavvyMom Stylish Kid Contest we ran with our partner, Please Mum this spring. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the contest, which ran over the past two months on Pleasemum.com, offered moms the chance to win a $500 shopping spree at Please Mum. We promoted the contest at a trade show in Toronto, on our site and in all of the Please Mum stores across Canada. So we know lots of people heard about it!
The lucky savvy mom who won the contest is Robin Hodgson, from Toronto. She is the proud mom of a little girl and a newborn baby boy. We hope she enjoys finding lots of fabulous gear for her two kids at Please Mum!
Congratulations Robin, and happy shopping.
How clean is your laundry? Apparently it’s not easy to tell unless you have revolutionary technology that can detect residue like sweat and body oils that linger on your clothes. Watch this video on the Sunlight.ca site or the one below to see for yourself. It shows that with UV lighting and a special formula that is sprayed onto the laundry, you can detect all of the smelly body oils and fabric residue that’s left on laundry. In other words, your white towels might look white, but they’re not necessarily clean. Gross, I know.
For the record, and in the spirit of editorial transparency, this is not a sponsored post. After learning about this new product, I was a bit suspicious about this ‘scientific method’, so I took some of the Sunlight Deep Clean home and tested it against my worst laundry nightmare of all time—smelly camp towels. It worked. How do I know it worked? Not from a special spray and UV lighting, but my eyes and nose. Years of experience with mildewed towels told me they were clean to look at, but my nose was the most surprised. For the first year, I only had to wash those towels once to get rid of the mildew smell. I’m told that mildew smell is a result of all the oils and buildup left on towels which doesn’t get deep cleaned (pun intended).
I don’t know if I need to use this detergent on all my fine washables, but for the tough stuff (and I have a lot of that with two pre-teen boys), it will be on my shelf.
Wait for more sponsored info on Sunlight Deep Clean in our newsletters coming soon.
What’s your favourite detergent? I would love to know.
It’s not surprising that these T-shirts were pulled off the shelves in JC Penny stores across the US last week. They had moms everywhere in an uproar.
To add more fuel to the fire, look at the descriptive message in the right hand box where the product information goes: ‘Who has time for homework when there’s a new Justin Beiber album out?’
True, girls are subjected to confusing messages about subjective beauty everywhere. It’s nothing new. What’s crazy to me as a mom, is that in this case, we are the ones being marketed to, not the girls. And they think moms will buy these T-shirts for their daughters? Where is the research these retailers apparently spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on? Surely there is something in there that would help them understand what moms are looking for when shopping for their kids—if their own common sense isn’t enough.
That said, there is still room for more bad messages for young girls—and boys for that matter. Check out this funny gallery for more really inappropriate ideas.
It’s only the second week of my return to the blog and so much has caught my attention. Here are my top five radar-worthy things this week.
What’s on your radar this week?
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Unfortunately, all too many moms will buy this for their daughters. There are places in the US in particular where beauty pageants reign supreme (ever seen an ad for Toddlers and Tiaras—if you’d have your 3 year old doing that, you’d buy this shirt for her when she is 8). Parents teach girls what they need to know to land a good husband (looks, talent, etc.) and they are generally not encouraged to aspire to a career that would be incompatible with a dominant role of wife and mother (teacher okay, doctor or lawyer or engineer—no way).
Add JC Penney to the list of stores I will never shop at again. Just last week, I saw similar shirts at The Children’s Place, including one that read “Future Mrs. Beiber”. Seriously?!? Is this all our girls aspire to? Only if their parents let them wear degrading shirts like this one…