to think that "Baby on Board" signs in cars are ridiculous?

Yeah, sorry about that. See above.

Not angry, by the way. It was meant more as a shrug.

You're aware that the comment you're so angrily responding to is fourteen years old right? I'd forgotten I even had an account!

Ah, yeah. I didn't notice that.

Well, as one who has more than once unwittingly resurrected an old thread by commenting on it, I'd suggest that it popped up on someone's 'related topics' list and they clicked on it without noticing the date, and here we are.

If I thought there was any point, I'd suggest to MN that there should be a cut-off date for stuff that pops up unbidden.

@PointsSouth I wonder why this 15 year old thread has been resurrected tho, op could have just started her own one

It has. But what hasn't?

If we only ever started threads on topics that have never been addressed before, Mumsnet would be dead in a week.

I hope they've taken it down now baby is about 180 months old and doing GCSEs

There's a zombie thread flurry going on today!

They’re a fantastic way of identifying cars which are likely to be driven appallingly.

And will you take it down when your child is not in the car so they don't waste time?

Why are you resurrecting a 15 year old thread?

People who have kids for show should not have them.

Some of the posts on here are very defensive. In addition, showing off a baby is a very twisted way of 'loving' your kids. Parenting and self glorification do not mix. These signs are a self entitlement. I saw a hand written sign stuck in a driver's back window once saying 'grandchildren on board'. If people are being belittled for not agreeing with them, then OK, why don't we all have them... man on board, woman on board, 17 year old on board, transgender on board.....etc etc I think tax payer on board would be a good one. Surely it would be more beneficial, if this 'in case of an accident' reason is valid, for people with illnesses or disabilities to display these, which I have never seen. I don't see why advertising a baby on board is more important. If the defensive brigade are dictating to others not to notice their baby on board sign then why put it there??? You have said you want it to be noticed incase of an accident. Huge contradicting yourselves here,with a whole load of arrogance.
Please just be honest and admit that you're using your child to prove whatever, worst of all without the child's knowing. The baby is an individual human being not an extension of your ego.

Thanks for the reply ronshar.

Little peanut. If there are car seats then you expect to look around for small people but no seats and a sign in the window is very misleading!
Obviously the emergency services try 100% to make sure that all are accounted for. I never wanted to be the one who had to live with the knowledge that I left a child by the side of the road.

The signs are not for the benefit of the emergency services, thats all I wanted to point out.

Any kind of decor in a car is tacky in the extreme - whether it's soft toys, nodding dogs or Baby / Princess / Babe (err, if you say so) / Twonk Who Likes Spending Money On Novelty Tat On Board signs.

And tossers who drive dangerously are not suddenly going to redeem themselves on clocking one of these signs...

I have one of these, the main reason being that when i park in a mother and child space then its obvious that i have a reason to be there. The infant car seats don't always stay in the car and therefore not easy to tell who has a right to park there and who is abusing it.
I also have it in the hope that some idiot who is tailgating me thinks twice and backs off.
I do not have it to excuse any bad driving as i may be distracted or tired. If i have my kids in my car believe me i am paying lots of attention to the road to make sure they are safe.
I think this is the point of the signs and why most parents use them.

p.s i used to hate them when i was trying for DD1!

x-post with Jj - seems very sensible to have a sign in your specific circumstances.

I do find them anoying, and perceive them to be just "showing off" about having a baby.

However, ronshar your post bothers me.

You said "It made life a nightmare to be honest because you waste time looking for someone who isnt there. I have had to stumble down dark banks looking for a baby that wasnt there"

This implies that if there had not been one of these signs in the car then you would NOT have bothered looking? Doesn't that in fact support the argument for having the signs?

can i add another side to this,

where dps parents live there is a HUGE 'boy racer' community, dp has only been driving for 3mnths, he is 23 and im 21, we have a 2 and 1yr old dcs, our shitty little car is one associated with these knobs teen/early 20s who basically drive around like idiots, 'race' etc.

Our children were strapped in the back of our car one evening when we were leaving my in laws, at some traffic lights dp pulled off slightly quicker than the 'lads' next to us (how ill never know we only have a 1.0) so they caught up and rammed our car 3 times before we managed to safely pull over, having seen us in the front looking about there age and NOT our children, they turned round and came back, i cannot describe the look of horror on one of there faces when i retrieved my screaming baby from the back, this kind of thing has happened repeatedly, when i began driving the car i placed a free child on board sign in the rear drivers side window and ever since it hasnt happened.

Therefore im not PFB, not smug parent and so on, it makes my children safer imo, and it gives me peace of mind that the twats out there see that and leave me the fuck alone.

Oh and i ALWAYS remove my sign when my children arent in the car, although this is very rare!

They're not to warn anyone, they're just to show off that you've got a new baby. I find them pathetic, pointless and self-indulgent. As lots of posters have said, you're entitled to have your opinions, and that's mine.

Sponsored by the local pfb baby signing classes that is.

Oh fab.

Yet another opportunity for me to mention that I once was behind a car with one that said....

SIGNING BABY ON BOARD

Presumably with 2 fingers stuck up at any road hogs!!

Same as the amount of people who use phone while driving. Obviously a stupid thing to do but still so many drivers risking peoples lives.

Thank you. It is late and I have eaten too much cheese on toast. Been dairy free for over a year while BF. Cheese overload

Ronshar - fair point, didn't think that anyone would do that.

I'm still surprised by how common driving without seatbelt seems to be over here - I remember an email at my first workplace in the UK going round warning people of police being out checking, so to put the seatbelt on today.

I was really confused by it, as I never met anyone not using them when I was still living in Germany