Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sweatshirts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK I never get to brag about this but I will on this anon message board. Woo hoo! People wear my kid’s sweatshirt everywhere. I see it on people I don’t know sometimes. It was not exclusionary because we invited everyone in her class. It does not have event details on it.

Does it have a date? We're doing initials in cool font with the date (in smaller font) and nothing else (so nothing like "Adam's Bat Mitzvah!"). I want it to be something people will actually wear (not everyone, but at least some!).

Every single sweatshirt or t-shirt I've seen from these has the date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK I never get to brag about this but I will on this anon message board. Woo hoo! People wear my kid’s sweatshirt everywhere. I see it on people I don’t know sometimes. It was not exclusionary because we invited everyone in her class. It does not have event details on it.

Does it have a date? We're doing initials in cool font with the date (in smaller font) and nothing else (so nothing like "Adam's Bat Mitzvah!"). I want it to be something people will actually wear (not everyone, but at least some!).

No date. It took place in a unique place (think town/landmark/park) and it had just the place name and a small motif that related to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to give you something for attending their gift grab.

Wow. Yuck. Bar/Bat Mitzvahs are incredibly important days for Jewish people. They are not gift grabs - gifts are definitely not expected!

yes they are gift grabs fool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK I never get to brag about this but I will on this anon message board. Woo hoo! People wear my kid’s sweatshirt everywhere. I see it on people I don’t know sometimes. It was not exclusionary because we invited everyone in her class. It does not have event details on it.

Wouldn’t that happen if it was donated to goodwill?

[Anonymous]

I was really surprised but my son & most of his friends did wear these until they outgrew them. Had the bar mitzvah boy's name, date etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg teach your kids some resilience. Not everyone gets invited to everything. How is this different from the multitude of groups at school who wear matching clothing like cheerleaders, dance team, etc on pep rally day? Are they exclusionary too?

Are you comparing team uniforms to party gifts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK I never get to brag about this but I will on this anon message board. Woo hoo! People wear my kid’s sweatshirt everywhere. I see it on people I don’t know sometimes. It was not exclusionary because we invited everyone in her class. It does not have event details on it.

Wouldn’t that happen if it was donated to goodwill?

+1. That’s where all of my kids’ party shirts went. They lost interest in them pretty quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to give you something for attending their gift grab.

Wow. Yuck. Bar/Bat Mitzvahs are incredibly important days for Jewish people. They are not gift grabs - gifts are definitely not expected!

yes they are gift grabs fool.

Not expected from the kids but definitely from adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg teach your kids some resilience. Not everyone gets invited to everything. How is this different from the multitude of groups at school who wear matching clothing like cheerleaders, dance team, etc on pep rally day? Are they exclusionary too?

Totally agree with this. Not everyone gets a trophy.

We invited the whole class. Everyone who attended got a party favor. This is middle school and exclusion stings.

[Anonymous]

My kids are embarrassed to wear them after the event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to give you something for attending their gift grab.

Wow. Yuck. Bar/Bat Mitzvahs are incredibly important days for Jewish people. They are not gift grabs - gifts are definitely not expected!

yes they are gift grabs fool.

Spoken by someone who knows nothing about what a Bar/Bat Mitzvah is.

The child spends years preparing, learning a foreign language with letters that are different than English, learns to read from the sacred scroll (the Torah written in Hebrew with no vowels), learns to lead a congregation full of adults, interprets torah/leads the sermon for that same congregation. That takes monumental effort, while attending school and participating in sports and other activities. It is a right of passage, not a gift grab

[Anonymous]

Personalize them for each kid, not the party kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to give you something for attending their gift grab.

Wow. Yuck. Bar/Bat Mitzvahs are incredibly important days for Jewish people. They are not gift grabs - gifts are definitely not expected!

yes they are gift grabs fool.

Spoken by someone who knows nothing about what a Bar/Bat Mitzvah is.

The child spends years preparing, learning a foreign language with letters that are different than English, learns to read from the sacred scroll (the Torah written in Hebrew with no vowels), learns to lead a congregation full of adults, interprets torah/leads the sermon for that same congregation. That takes monumental effort, while attending school and participating in sports and other activities. It is a right of passage, not a gift grab

+10000
There are too many idiots in this world

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they are mean when kids wear them to school the next day. "We are Hannah's Friends and you are not!"

Yeah. I think there's something very weird about the sweatshirts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK I never get to brag about this but I will on this anon message board. Woo hoo! People wear my kid’s sweatshirt everywhere. I see it on people I don’t know sometimes. It was not exclusionary because we invited everyone in her class. It does not have event details on it.

This is nice but almost no one does this - invite everyone