Frivolous retail therapy poll.

[rivka]

Our finances, which have been tight for the last year and a half, are suddenly about to ease up. A lot. With more discretionary income on the near horizon, it's time to revisit the link folder where I've been storing up adorable toddler-sized sloganed T-shirts.[1]

I feel a little ambivalent about putting slogans on my kid. As I've said before:

I'm not entirely sure where to draw the line when it comes to ascribing my own political opinions to my child. On the one hand, I generally think it's distasteful when parents treat their young child as a political signboard, or put words in the child's mouth that they're too young to understand. My kid is not my mini-me. On the other hand, I think it's important to communicate our values from the very beginning, and to make political involvement and social justice work part of our family's everyday lives.

So, where does the line fall in T-shirt form? I welcome comments, personal philosophies, and of course, votes in my retail therapy poll.

[Poll #1138454]


[1] Yes, at some point I'll spend some of the extra disposable income on things for myself. It's just a lot more fun to buy clothes for Alex. Buying clothes for myself is work, and not pleasant work.

Comments

[ailbhe]

I don't know which ones she'd believe in herself. I mean, my children wore "Actually, I wasn't planning to wean" in black on white and "My dad is a feminist and so is my mum" in curly pink font.

Something like "I like dinosaurs but not in charge of my school" might be good if you could make it pithier...

[ailbhe]

Oh, and I think she can be a president AND a princess if she wants to be. If she happened to fall in love with a royal personage, or something. I'm not sure how she could get to be a princess.

She could just be president in fairy wings and a big fluffy tiara. That would be fine.