Picking The Best Baby On Board For Your Vehicle

Welcome to our baby on board signs website! These stickers have been used for generations in order to curb road rage and encourage the safety or kids and infants that are in the vehicles. Most people know that when they see this type of a sign or sticker on the back or side of a vehicle that it is quite likely that a child might be present on board. Its inhumane to imagine that this wouldn't make more individuals cautious as I personally don't see how anyone could live with themselves for injuring a child.

The 'On board' signs usually resemble a regular sign in its design. Most of them have a bright, large yellow background with black lettering which is clearly visible from a distance. They stick to the window, body or bumper of a car and that allows for the buyer to place them where they think that these will be most easy to notice. The size of this product usually runs at about 5 inches and is placed on the rear window of the car in order to let the emergency service know (in the event of a crash) that an infant might be involved in the accident. This is quite important, as signs children are small they might be trapped and not as visible to the team as adults would be.

This would be very bad, as you might imagine. For example, lets say that you have a car accident and are unconscious when the medics arrive. No one notices your child, as they get trapped in a foot well, and the car is impounded with them in the vehicle leading to an unnecessary death. The one thing that could have prevented this scenario was spending a couple dollars on a sign or sticker stating "child on board."

There are also many parodies available which came out of the huge popularity of these signs. The few that I have seen are "dog on board", "mother-in-law in trunk", "baby I'm bored" and even "little person on board."  I think that these sort of things are fine as long as they do not look too much like the real thing as this causes some people to develop sign blindness and pay less attention to them. This is a symptom of being exposed to the same thing over and over such as commercials on TV or within magazines. You might have noticed that you skip through them, and I bet if someone would ask you if you recall a certain "ad" the answer would be "no."

One of the most popular "baby on board" signs within the media is within the Simpsons cartoon in the episode called "Homer's barbershop quarter." Within that one episode, Marge purchased this type of sign saying that it might prevent others from "intentionally ramming our car."

An urban legend states that the sign was made after the US based designer's child was killed in a car accident. This has not proven to be the truth, as these signs were marketed in Europe way before this story supposedly took place and also the sign was not thought up in the States.

Some of the newer models are also available with suction cups or as magnets. As opposed to the stickers, neither of these two will leave any traces if you take them of. This was one of the reasons that some people did not want to place them on their more expensive type of vehicles. Since this is no longer the case, there are no excuses why you shouldn't keep your child safe and get one of these baby on board signs on your car right away.