To hate "baby on board" signs?

[Laindon]

Before I start, please no one try and spread bollocks about the energy services. Here's why:

1. So I don't have a sign, you're still not going to look for my child, even though I have car seat there?

1. Yes people say they're suppose to be removed when a child isn't present, however,

99% of people leave them on so that already raises a red flag.

To me, they just translate to "pretentious twat on board".
Don't even get me started on "princess on board". If I had a anger issues, I'd personally ram into the back of that car.

What's your take?

Lol when I see "princess on board" I want to vomit. I thought it was just me yanbu

I was forced to sit with ds for every journey (I didn't drive so it was possible). He had severe separation anxiety from 5 months and he would not only scream but shake, vomit, sweat and get himself into such a mess, it was horrible. He most certainly did not zone out and settle. He was inconsolable and in a terrible state.

Can I just point out too, that ambivalent doesn't mean what people seem to think it means? If you're ambivalent about baby on board signs, you do have feelings towards them. Mixed ones.

I've never known anyone to get annoyed about which seats other people in other cars choose to sit in. A seat's a seat. Why would it irritate someone that a mother chooses to sit in the back with a baby - in another car?!

I love this thread! This is everything I've ever thought about these signs but have been afraid to say. For me it's the suggestion that everyone drives like a maniac but will watch themselves just because you've got one of these! So rude.

thisisclem I'd have irritated everyone if I'd sat in the back with dd. Can't drive with my feet

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Well as long as one of the adults in the car is the person driving it, I don't care where the other one sits!

Prince or princess anything makes me want to vomit. And as for little man - I can barely type the words.

Haven't read the entire thread buy YES - those signs really annoy me - especially "little princess/little dude" Oh and yes Andnowit's7 why are baby boys always being referred to as "little man" - even the midwives say it on "One born every minute."

Mind I don't like other signs like "I slow down for horses"
The worst was "honk if you had it last night..........." Dear god.

I sometimes think of putting "post menopausal woman on board" or "deaf old bag on board."

I did consider 'Middle aged parents and baby on board' when DC3 was born .
I have noticed that some users of these signs drive like maniacs themselves and I resent the implication that we have to be careful round their precious cargo, but they don't.
Truth is, like nappy stackers, whilst people are daft enough to buy them someone else is making money out of them.

Seriouslyffs - if nobody is in the back with her she will start screaming about 10 minutes into the journey and continue until the car stops. She's done it since she was a few weeks old and is still doing it in the bigger car seat. If I'm on my own I avoid driving as far as I can. If it's really unavoidable I resort to earplugs, but I very rarely go far with her as it really is just horrible. She has mirrors and toys etc but just hates the car. She will not ever self settle. Even with someone in the back it's a struggle. She has screamed for two hours at a time and if we take a break the screaming starts back up as soon as we're on the move again. She will not eventually fall asleep.

So maybe be a bit less judgey when you see someone sitting in the back with a baby. It's a myth that all babies sleep in cars.

harpy

MN is bloody horrible sometimes. Who on earth manages to get irritated by someone else managing their own child in their own car in their own way FFS?

Do the posters who get irritated by mothers sitting in the back with their baby also get irritated with people who co-sleep perhaps? Or use a sling? Or do anything else to make their own life easier with their child? Other people doing what they think is best is just sooo irritating right?

Jesus.

It's a BMW btw, (someone asked), nothing that flash.

Mind you, thinking about it, what with that AND the heinous crime of having a B on B sign as well this makes me a precious, smug, boastful (?!), pretentious (??!), peurile twat who drives like a bastard anyway, according to this and past threads here.

Jeez, it's a small yellow sign that's not impacting your life in any meaningful way.

Why get worked up about such a non issue?

I always wonder what the point of these signs are when I see someone speeding, drifting, cutting in or driving dangerously. It just makes me feel sorry for said baby having such a penis for a parent.

I saw one once that said 'making jelly babies on it' and when we stopped in traffic, I saw there were two Jelly babies in a compromising position on it! Much more eye catching then baby and board.

harpy

"Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it"
-Belgicia Howell-

I sit in the back with my 17 week baby if I don't have to drive. I didn't do this with my first baby but he died in his sleep last year aged 13 months, this is the reason I now sit in the back!

So sorry for your loss.

Dexter so sorry for your loss. Our pfb is due in October and I fully intended to sit in the back with them in the car (dh drives) so I can keep my eye on them!

The ones that get on my tits are 'granddad's taxi' and 'back off- I'm sticking to the speed limit' well whoopdie fuckin doo

If you want drivers to not be tailgating you, maybe you do not have the right signs in your back window?

The other day I was stuck behind a car with "Mud Slut" and "Smashing Every Hole" stickers in the back window.

I made sure there was a VERY large gap between that car and myself - maybe this would work for people in this thread?

Not rtft but agree with everything skeppers and humptdumpty said. And the posters who have to sit in the back with thier babies to avoid The Armageddon Meltdown.

We have one of those black and yellow b on b stickers. Never occurred to me that I was being smug, pretentious or precious (although I admit perhaps iam precious about our baby, but she was our hard earned long awaited baby, so definitely not 'smug' about our fertility?!)

What an odd thing to even bother yourself about. Life and let live.

Out of interest, can I ask those who have them what benefit you get from them? (Given the emergency services thing is bunkem)

Not being snarky, just they have always seemed pointless to me.

Tbh we didn't give it that much thought! Was just buying baby stuff and thought "better get one of those along with the car seat".

I guess I assumed it might stop dickheads other drivers from driving righ up your arse or getting impatient with you for not driving like Lewis Hamilton on your way to sainsburys. But I didn't give it that much thought because it's such a non issue tbh.

I was ambivalent about them before I had kids but now I bloody hate them. I'm already a woman in a big car, enough arseholes cut me up as it is .

But arseholes aren't going to change because of a paper sign.

Don't want to pick on you, but you are my only answer so far. Sounds a bit of an autopilot purchase. Like a bath thermometer. Not really something where you think there is a clear reason for buying it.

Which kind of sums up my view of them really.

That post was to Abso.