You know these car decals. They are on almost every SUV and Minivan all over our community. They tell us that little Kaitlain (or Caitlin, or Katelyn) takes dance, Tyler is into ice hockey, and Luke plays on the elite baseball team. I know this because the name is usually displayed underneath the sport or activity. Tells me that Mommy runs all over the metroplex taking children to games, practice and rehearsals. (Most of these vehicles also sport a small black bumper sticker with a white letter that is near the end of the alphabet but this post isn't about those stickers.) I have never seen these decals on a beat up Chevrolet or an old pickup, just SUVs and minivans.
[I just noticed the car in the pic does come from the great state of Texas but I didn't take the pic, I "borrowed it". Today I tried to take my own pic of a green van speeding down the hwy with three names each with three activity stickers and one name with four, I am not kidding, She almost careened into a red pickup truck trying to exit the freeway. I don't know how she could see out the window. Anyway, she was probably on her way to one or more of the activites listed on the back .]
I currently do not have any of these decals on my car. My children are involved in activites and I could add one (or two) to reflect our karate class. I am not writing this to suggest that anyone stop placing these on their cars or to criticize anyone who has a window full of them. I am just suggesting an alternative.
I was thinking what if I placed decals on my van that reflected my children's character traits or the meaning of their names. I could have one for Butch that showed a knight and says "Desire to Protect" or for Sundance a philosopher that says, "To Defend Men" and for Toddler a crown that says,"Giver of Provisions".
[I may make me one with this graphic, Athena and WASHER OF LAUNDRY.]
I love this idea! I can't stand those bumpers stickers and I feel tired for the person driving those kids to all those places. We get our kids into this rat race mentality and then wonder why they grow up so fast. For Connor, I'd put a house with the sun shining in and write, "bringer of sunshine."
Posted by: kara | December 14, 2005 at 12:39 PM
Sister is getting on her soapbox.
I am so sick of companies that prey on parents for profit. This goes along with the sicker thing. They don't just hand those out. Someone came up with the idea and then took advantage of the parents' fears to convince them all that STICKERS SAVE LIVES. If you don't buy a sticker of Caitlin's cheerleading megaphone, she will probably get knocked up. If you're not proudly displaying Justin's tiny white football, baseball, AND soccerball, you might as well start saving up for his bail money.
I see this "marketing of experience" at my school all the time. They start small with the elite baseball/select soccer sticker, so that by the time the kids are seniors they've got the parents and the kids primed to but.
I have to give up one class period every year for an hour-long advertisement for graduation. The Josten's representitive tries to convince the kids that they have to have a tee shirt with their class year...like they're going to forget what year they graduated. The one that kills me is when they tell them that the average student orders 100 graduation announcements. (Avoid that embarrassing trip to the grocery store after your favorite checker finds out your kid walked the stage without her knowing.) And don't get me started on the senior portrait. (Spend less than $2000, and Ashley may just have to drop out of school all together.)
My (our) mother did such a great job of avoiding that trap. When I moved back home (at the age of 33) a few years back, I noticed Mother had my 5x7 senior portrait on her bedside table. I was looking at it when she told me, "Every time I look at that picture I feel bad."
Slightly taken aback, I asked why.
She explained, "With Athena and Brother both in private colleges, we were so strapped your senior year that you had to have your senior portrait made in a dress I had sewn for Athena a few years earlier and we could only afford that one picture."
HERE'S MY POINT: I had no idea. I loved the tulip sleeves of that dress and it was flattering. It never occurred to me that we should have had twenty-four poses of me with my soccerball and tennis racket, holding my faux diploma, lounging on the porch of a non-existent house,...
So my advise is spend time with your kids, take them on special trips to the museum, let them braid your pixie-short hair while you visit. Because those are the memories that will loom long after they've wrecked that mini-van.
Posted by: elisabeth | December 15, 2005 at 09:48 PM
I was giggling so hard my husband had to come and listen. Thank you for the chuckle!
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