https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:14:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-74095 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:03:15 +0000 KT326 74095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a friend get pulled and the cop told her he wouldn't have pulled her over if she didn't have a baby on board sticker (she was doing 72 on the freeway where the speed limit was 65). He told her that the sticker means she wants people to drive safe around her so she should be doing the speed limit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-74030 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:51:50 +0000 Cchoi4 74030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh no, I HAVE a baby on board sign! I thought people used them more for the shade it provides the baby, and the sign to other drivers was secondary. oops, haha ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-68674 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:50:37 +0000 808love 68674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband just put a BABY INSIDE sticker on his car! The first thing I thought when I saw the sticker was, Yah a 6 foot 2 baby! :-D Yikes. He's 'different' like that. Anyway, I secretly think it's cute even though I ridiculed him publicly. He is a good driver. Maybe he won't be anymore, now that he has the sticker. (He believes people will be more careful. I won't burst his bubble and tell him what the Bees think. Or maybe I will... ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67512 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:47:18 +0000 pastemoo 67512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: huh! i couldn't do that here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67510 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:40:36 +0000 looch 67510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pastemoo: It's a different attitude about safety. Kids routinely walk to school unaccompanied from Kindergarten, so there's not as much stranger danger as in the US. I personally wouldn't do it, but my SIL has three kid name things on her car for her three kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67509 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:36:31 +0000 pastemoo 67509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: hahahaahaha<br /> @looch: wait what? isn't that dangerous? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67496 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:57:07 +0000 looch 67496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG, where I live people put stickers on their car with outlines of kids and the kid's names. So weird. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67431 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:00:19 +0000 yoursilverlining 67431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think they are pointless and stupid. Congrats, you have a baby - I'm still driving the same either way since I wasn't driving to hit you when I thought you were a single adult driver. It also seems like the drivers with all those family stickers and the baby on board signs are the worst drivers. If they are so concerned about everyone else's driving because they have a baby, you think they would pay a little more attention to the road themselves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67341 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:25:47 +0000 pastemoo 67341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No one pays attention to those. Still, doesn't mean you should avoid it if you like it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67322 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:59 +0000 cupcakemama 67322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Glad I could be of help ladies!<br /> They are a freaking epidemic here. Dh keeps threatening to put them on my car while I am asleep and to make mine the alcoholic one with the wine glass. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67312 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:12:33 +0000 sulli301 67312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cupcakemama: haha that's so funny &amp; I agree that I'll keep your voice in my head to resist :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67311 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:08:08 +0000 MsMini 67311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a serious disdain for the "Baby on board" signs. I would never ever put one in my car. </p> <p>I kind of avoid cars with them in, because I think that people who have them in their cars tend to drive terribly, and I definitely avoid them in parking lots because every time I park beside someone with one of those stickers it seems like they ding my car with their door. Ditto the stick man stickers, I thin "Oh shit, they have a kid who is going to slam their door into my car". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67303 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:56:18 +0000 mrs. wagon 67303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cupcakemama: I know, I really do feel the same way you do, but every time I see them at the store I start picking them out for each member of the family, and the two dogs... I just can't resist personalized things like that! Gah. Need to keep your voice in mind ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67301 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:54:57 +0000 cupcakemama 67301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Omg! The my family stickers? We have them here and they are out of control. Seriously out of control. Here they are very much 'look at me, I have kids, look at me'. Sorry ladies, touched a nerve with that one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67274 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:44:49 +0000 sulli301 67274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tina: I don't have a stick family on my car but I really want one with the little flag for my alma mater ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67273 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:44:39 +0000 heffalump 67273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tina: I think they were cute at first but now they're a little overdone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67270 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:43:30 +0000 mrs. wagon 67270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love it! I'm still on the fence about whether or not those sticker window decals with the stick figure families are tacky or cute. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67261 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:36:24 +0000 sulli301 67261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think the little yellow signs are borderline tacky but I do think that people maybe wouldn't tailgate you as badly or flick you off etc? I'd hope but like others above have said people probably drive the same in most cases. I don't think they are dumb, but I'm not sure if they'd do much to help either. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67257 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:16:00 +0000 cupcakemama 67257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think they're dumb. Oh ok, I was going to run into your car but I can see you have a baby on board sign so I won't. Really?</p> <p>I always presume they are for the parents to show off that they have a baby rather than anything else. Sorry, I just have always loathed them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67247 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:55:22 +0000 sorrycharlie 67247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>to be honest, I don't usually change how I drive if I see one of those signs. Not that I drive like a nut, but you know what I mean. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67243 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:42:13 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 67243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it makes much of a difference. I don't feel like people really care. Usually people don't hit your car on purpose anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67237 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:32:26 +0000 chopsuey 67237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it's dumb, but don't think it's useful either. And yes. Don't want to draw unnecessary attention to yourself! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67236 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:26:18 +0000 BoogieBea 67236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not a fan. Don't really want to draw attention to my kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67229 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:13:01 +0000 yin 67229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friend does not have any kids, but he puts the baby on board sign on his car to steer away other drivers. He drives a fast car, and a lot of people on the road want to race him. He will point to the sign, and they usually back off.</p> <p>Of course he gifted us with one for our own car, but I returned it because I think it's a bit tacky. The sign shouldn't an excuse for bad driving, and it won't change the way others drive on the road. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67224 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:04:10 +0000 Boogs 67224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not a fan from them and I don't think any of the loonies on the road pay attention to them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67223 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:03:58 +0000 heffalump 67223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like accidents are accidents. People don't mean to do it, and they won't be able to pick which car they hit. Plus I feet like bumper stickers are distractions- people are reading them instead of looking at the road! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67220 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:08 +0000 BSB 67220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think those things are ruined for me because of the George Carlin comedy skit. </p> <p>I'm not sure how I will feel if I didn't see that skit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67216 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:57:00 +0000 Andrea 67216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always thought those signs are silly. And I don't want to alert people that I had a baby. Lots of crazy people out there..... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67215 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:55:55 +0000 tequiero21 67215@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>no clue, but i got one from my SIL, so i guess i'll put it up hehe. hopefully it will help. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-on-board-car-magnet-useful-or-tacky#post-67213 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:53:46 +0000 ustechie 67213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on those little yellow window decals that say "baby on board". Do you think it helps alert other drivers to be more cautious or is it just pointless? What do you think?? </p>