Cards For Your Kids

I have a friend who I've known since High School, and he is a smart, creative guy who used to be an advertising agency Art Director and is now a Stay-at-home-Dad.  When Sam realized that exchanging contact information with other parents (mostly women), for play dates was awkward he came up with a pretty cool product.  He realized that maybe there were others out there who felt that socializing with other parents could sometimes be difficult, and that getting play dates for your children could sometimes feel like a daunting task when you didn't know how to approach it.  Enter Cards For Your Kids!

Cards For Your Kids is like a business card for your kid - and we all know that kids take their work of playing very seriously!  Cards For Your Kids is a unique tool that you can use on the playground, at the supermarket, wherever you find your child socializing with other little people.  Your kid strikes up a friendship with someone on the slides?  Walk over to their parent or caregiver and give them this:

(The contact information has been altered for privacy purposes but this is an exact replica of Theo's actual card.)

The great thing about Theo's card is that I can use it to let people know that he has a dairy allergy so that if they give him snacks while he is at their house for a play date, they know to give him the dairy-free kind.  That helps this Mama breathe a bit easier.

Here's more you should know about Cards For Your Kids:

• Information on the card can include parents phone numbers, allergy and medical info, babysitter’s number, and a personalized Gmail account set up for your child.  You can also, as I did, have their email account set up so that you receive a copy of every email they receive.

• Great for new moms, dads, or babysitters. Great gift for a current parent or for a baby shower.

• They feature environmentally-safe paper in 27 vibrant colors and two paper weights from The French Paper Company (Americas only 100% hydro-electric powered mill).

• Offers 10 predesigned layouts. 156 images that can be substituted. 59 water-based ink colors.

• Each card is individually screen-printed distinct from mass-produced digital or offset printed cards.

• Also offers customized designs and custom silhouettes of your child.

• 50 cards (Deluxe 100lb) go for $60, and 50 cards (Premium 140lb) goes for $80 (which includes a Kraft card holder), but Sam has offered all of my readers a discount: order before December 31st and get $10 off your order when you use code singlemom10.  Sweet!

So, now you have the perfect holiday gift for that parent you think has it all already -- because for sure they do not have cards for their kids!