Parent Cards
Has this ever happened to you? You’re out walking with the babies in the stroller, or hanging out in the park and along comes another parent with a baby or babies about the same age, and you get to chatting, and you think, “Hey, we should hang out some time, and get the kids together, and, man, we need some more friends with kids,” but then you go your way and they go theirs and you never see them again, or you just end up “Hi” friends as you pass each other every once in a while?
It’s a problem, right? So Rachel and I came up with a genius solution: parent cards. You make up some business cards with your names, your kids’ names and ages, and your phone number and email address, and keep a stack of them in your stroller or diaper bag, and when you run into another parent, you exchange them and then later you can call each other and have a playdate.
I’m sure it would be a little weird and awkward the first time you hand one out, but once it catches on, it would just become totally normal. Spread the word! Parent cards.
Of course, Rachel and I came up with this idea months ago, and never actually made parent cards, and then the latest issue of Babytalk showed up at our house, and of course it has this VERY SAME IDEA in it, but they call them “Mommy Cards.” Stupid sexist parenting-industrial complex. It’s still a good idea, though.
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Oh my god, I know it’s meant to be funny, but that link for sexist parenting industrial complex is so offensive.
By the way, I emailed the Mommy Cards person, and it turns out they’re a few weeks away from launching a new site with a new name and new designs that are not mommy-specific! I got a sneak preview of a couple “daddy cards” designs. So I now fully endorse them, even though I think the name “Mommy Cards,” for that product more generically, seems to have taken root, at least as far as I can tell from a Google search. Boo.
i had never heard of these either, and then meghal had some made for lauraine last year or something. next time you have a stationary-related notion, you should consult with meghal.
for the record, i still think this whole concept is weird.
It was all the rage in San Fransisco about 3 years ago when my niece was born. I don’t think my sister in law ever got around to getting any when my nephew was born a year and a half later though…so his friends also get cards that say “Meredith’s Mom.”