If it gets a lost child back to you quickly – why wouldn’t you? With that being said however, I think that this is more applicable in situations where your child is likely to free roam – like the beach ( I see lost kids there every weekend!), or at the zoo or a situation where the children out number the supervising adults. I still stand by the idea that it is a parents responsibility to have their eyes on their child at all times ( there is really no excuse not to) but there are definitely a few situations where this could be a good precautionary measure.

I guess I just don’t see the point of being turned off of a potentially good idea just because the product may have come from an idea originally conceived for something else. (in this case, ID tags). I suppose you also think “dog tags” for the military personnel are also dumb? I mean, I’m not offended, I just don’t get it.

It’s very similar to a Road ID. I just got one and I’m really glad that I did. If anything were ever to happen to me while running, they can contact my husband and they know who I am.

or you could just micro-chip them…LOL

that’s a joke y’all

Roni, I feel your posts are always written with a condescending and judgemental tone. You seem to look to the negative side often. People tag their luggage, their lunch boxes, and many other things besides their pets. I’m not saying you cannot have your “opinions,” “gut reactions,” or even “play devil’s advocat,” but the way you express yourself tends to come off in an ugly way.

As for the writsbands. If “tagging our children like dogs” helps even one child return to their mother after getting lost, I don’t think it’s something to write-off. Instead of looking at it as a bad thing, to treat a child like we treat a pet, I would say that someone who tags their pet clearly loves it and should treat their child with just as much caution and concern when in a busy place. Please try to look beyond the obvious comparrison for your next post.

Emily – I think its hysterical that you think I’m negative. I’m known as being an overall positive blogger but here on babble I’m out of my element and am still trying to find my niche. If you look at my history of posts..

http://blogs.babble.com/babys-first-year-blog/author/roni/

You’ll notice a whopping TWO that take a negative spin which, honestly, were my BAD attempts at making jokes and trying to stir up traffic. Which is out of character for me. Most of my posts are simply documenting the life of my son. Problem is, baby pictures and stories about naps only bring in so much traffic.

You can think I’m “condescending”, “judgmental” and express my opinions in an “ugly way” but if you look at the post above all I did was ask a question. Just because a wristband made me think of dog tags doesn’t mean I’m judging people that use them. It just means it made me think of dog tags. If you feel judged that’s on you not me. I would actually use this product regardless of what others thought.

So please try to see that bloggers sometimes have multiple goals when writing posts. I started a conversation about a product I think is interesting useful. I brought the product to your attention. I got you to read my post by using a silly title. I even got you to comment. My job as blogger is done.

To take another side to this – I was discussing tags and “Mommy Cards” with a few web gals. What if an abductor or sex offender gets ahold of your info? Say your little angel is walking around and loses said tag or if you’re at an amusement park, waiting in a long line, surrounded by people that can see the tag and possibly memorize. Granted, it can be a long shot but is it really worth it? Sure, if your child is lost, you would want them found…but you also run the risk of them getting “found” by someone that you wouldn’t want your kid even remotely near.
While I like the idea of some form of ID, I don’t think I’d like it to be on my kiddos wrists.

Regardless of your motives, the tone turns me off to these posts, and in some ways to you. If your goal is to ignite a discussion, there are plenty of ways to do that in an eloquent and non-offensive manner. It’s not just this post, which you’re right – wasn’t overly agressive, but think in general. Your posts about the school, the products you can’t stand, have rubbed me the wrong way. I haven’t found any real advice or motivation from your contributions.

Since it was your mission to instigate opinions, you’ve done your job with me, but you’ve also deterred me from clicking “continue reading” on your future posts for fear that I will finish it feeling irritated or bated into an argument. Maybe it is me, and I’m too easily coaxed…oh well.

Jessica’s post is exactly what I was going to point out. I don’t like the idea of having my kids’ information just there. Too many ways for that to go wrong, although I do understand the other side as well. I just wouldn’t use the product on my own kids.
Also Roni, I have been reading your blogs for years now and I don’t think you are negative at all! lol!! You always make me laugh and you seem to always look at things “glass half full” in my opinion. And I think your jokes are pretty funny! My brother in law also thinks of play yards as a dog kennel. I used them to block things from my kids, and tried to use them to “contain” my kids when I was cleaning or something but they didn’t work for me that way! My son would just push it around till he got where he wanted to go! lol!! Keep up the entertaining blogs and ignore the negative comments, you don’t need them!!

Hi Roni – I am a member of BTL and seen this while looking through your blogs. I have a different perspective to offer. I have a child who has a very rare genetic disorder. She is 1 year old and LOOKS perfectly healthy but she is not. I have looked into similar items for those times when we are in a crowd or on vacation. I would put her medical information on it along with emergency contacts, etc. I can understand how mom’s would not want to “tag” their children for everyone to see. For my older children (7 and 4) I have pinned a paper with our information on the inside of their clothing when we have went to a large event such as a carnival, zoo, etc. I explain to them if they get lost to find a person that is like “grand dad” (a cop) and show them the information. Once my youngest gets old enough to walk I will start using some kind of “tag” system with her. It would mean the difference between her living or dying.

At our local fair they hand out tags that have a spot for a parent last name and a cell number. The stickers are for a child’s back (so they can’t peel them off). This would enable a child to be reconnected promptly, but doesn’t give out much to any potential threat. A predator wouldn’t have a first name, for example, to attempt to befriend with a “hi, johnny! of course you remember me from Sunday School! your Mommy Sally brought you!” We have since done a similar thing at a large sporting venue. We put phone number and seat number along with a parent last name. If the child got lost, security could immediately locate us. That said, at large venues such as those mentioned above, our children probably had indentations from us gripping them so hard! : ) Just a thought….

@Emily, I have been reading Roni’s blogs for quite a while now, and I don’t understand where you are coming from. It may be that you are particularly sensitive to the topics she is talking about, but if that is the case, maybe you should move on to another writer. I don’t think it is productive for you to spend your time arguing about what is or isn’t offensive to you personally, when it doesn’t seem like anyone else is offended.

As for me, I’m all for identification!!! The risks are minimal, as far as I am concerned. As a former veterinary office worker, microchips are great…if the owners remember to register them! Maybe not for the kids, though. :)

Nice try Emily and LBH…You two sound pretty silly…sorry but you do. Maybe another blog would fall for your tag team stuff but I believe Roni and her readers are intelligent enough to recognize you for what you are…Erika

You did insult me. According to you, I’m negative, condescending, and judgmental.
This is simple. If you don’t like my posts then please don’t read them and comment. I don’t understand the need to call out a blogger you don’t like. Just stop reading.

This post was written to start a conversation about a product but you felt the need to comment about my tone as well. I’m not going to sit back and let you insult me without a response.
I’ve written about 80 posts in 3 months, I don’t expect you to like them all. I don’t expect anyone to like them all. For pete’s sake, I don’t like them all.
Can we move now?

I know kids who are diabetic and wear cute bracelet that let people know about their condition but aren’t as obvious as a medical bracelet. Something like this http://www.n-styleid.com/butterfly-kids-medical-bracelets.html could be a way to identify without being so obvious.

LBH.. I’m the same way.. can you tell?? :)

Of course you can disagree! I was actually looking for conversation on both sides of this product. I guess I just don’t understand the need to comment about the tone of the post instead of the content or even the questions that were asked to purposefully initiate conversation.

If you read my original post again you’ll see I didn’t say anything negative about the product at all. That’s why I’m confused to where the “tone” comes in. I simply tried to initiate conversations on both sides of the story. According to you, I did a bad job. And that’s your opinion and you have a right feel that way.

Exactly what you said about commenting I can say about my post. I don’t understand how I can’t write a post soliciting opinions without being insulted. Of course you have the right too respond anyway you like, but why negative against the author? What is it accomplishing? To make the blogger feel bad? To let them know you don’t like their writing? That’s not what the post was about. It was about a wristband.

And just as you have the right to respond to the original post, I have the right to respond to the comments. Emily’s comment came across as mean spirited and unnecessary to me. I didn’t tell her that, I just responded to her points.

I think this comes down to different personality types. I wouldn’t bother to comment on someone’s post I didn’t like. Of course I would share my opinion if I disagreed, but too tell someone you don’t like their writing? I’d just stop reading. There’s too many bloggers I do like. Life’s too short.