College t-shirt day

[rootbeerfloat]

I just posted a pic of DD in a USC song girl outfit in the college football thread, lol. I would love if my kids went there, but honestly, I doubt we could afford it, so I don't really encourage it. I'd be happy if they went to our other alma maters, too.

[dancingirl21]

I'm kind of obsessed with my college - University of Wisconsin (Madison). It's such a fun place and I grew up 2 hours from there so it's the team I have always rooted for. DH and I met there so it is a special place for us. Now that we live in Chicago, paying out of state tuition would be really hard but if we keep talking up the school, cheering for the teams and dressing J up the way we do, we will likely have done it to ourselves when he wants to go there!

[lilac05]

I loved both of my schools. They were perfect for me. I have no preference of where my boys go to school, as long as it's a good fit for them.

They wear my school's shirts because that's where I went, not because that's where they'll go.

[auntie]

Not sure I love this idea.

I'm all about kids seeing college as an option, but I feel like 6 and 9 it just a chance to dress your kid up in your dreams which is cuter when they're toddlers.

LOL, DH is 700 miles away from his undergrad and 300 away from his grad school; I'm about 20 miles. Neither of us particularly cared if DS chose "our" school. TBH, he wouldn't have been accepted at DH's alma mater. Ironically, he did end up where I went. Large public uni in an urban setting.

[Brie]

I think you are overthinking this.

[boxerdog]

My H is psycho about our alma mater, and I will probably have to reign him in from pushing DS too hard to go there.

I love my college and it is special because that's where H and I met, but I won't be too upset if he chooses somewhere else.

DS WILL be raised a Dawgs fan, though!

[shell24]

My H and I both love our colleges. He went to Marquette and I went to Iowa. We grew up in and currently live in the NW burbs of Chicago so the kids have been to the campuses many times. Marquette more than Iowa.
I would love for them to go to Iowa, but really want them to choose a place they will have the best experience.

I couldn't imagine an elementary student having any idea about what they want in a university.

[badtzmaru22]

I think it's just meant to be fun, and you're overthinking it.

But to answer your question, I named my kid after my college, so.... Very? Lol.

[mainelyfoolish]

I'd be a little annoyed just because I don't have a college shirt for my elementary school kid. Is it common for kids to have college shirts if their parents aren't big sports fans or hugely into their alma mater? I mean, I loved the school I went to, but I don't have my shirts for my kids beyond the obligatory onesie when they were babies. 

[penguingrrl]

We live 45 minutes from where H and I both did undergrad. We're 4 hours from where I did grad and a little over an hour from where he did grad. It never occurred to us to buy the kids shirts or anything from our schools. If there's ever college t-shirt day at school our kids won't have stuff to wear for it. Neither H nor I were college t-shirt wearers ever, even while in college.

[humpforfree]

We are kind of really into our school. As our child's name shows. I would love love love him to go there, but obviously the decision is up to him, and we are currently out of state/5 hours away.

[momin2013]

Sept 2, 2015 15:13:29 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

...people don't care about colleges and universities here in Canada like you guys do in the US.

Yeah, this.

And we care even less about "college football" 

Putting my kid in a university shirt for school would just seem...odd to me.

[kategm]

lol, obsessed would be a good word for it. I'm a multi-generation Aggie. Not many members of my family have gone anywhere else. My BIL couldn't hack it so he wound up somewhere else, and I have some random cousins that went to another school in TX, but that's it. We bleed maroon.

That being said, DD will be raised an Aggie, but she has every right to choose another school. I had the option, and ultimately chose A&M.

And DH even opted to return for his grad school.

[Yankees21]

Lol, if you go to an elementary school on any given day in the fall here I'd bet 50% of them are wearing our state school shirt.

[formerlyak]

My ds knows I love my college - UCLA. I take him to football and basketball games every year. All of his friends know I love UCLA. They run up to me on the school yard when they are wearing something UCLA to show me. I had a parent two years ago ask me if I was the one who convinced his kid that UCLA was better than his beloved USC (maybe??). Luckily this dad likes me and actually thought it was funny. Both my kids have had UCLA shirts since birth (the baby is too little to go to games yet).

Our school does college day on Thursdays. Some kids wear a shirt; some don't. At our school it is simply to promote college going culture. I think this year (4th grade) my son's class does the college visit field trip to either UCLA or USC (please let it be UCLA this year!). Do I care where he goes? Nope. But I think it's cool that they are already starting to promote some type of school spirit. But they do this for our district high school as well - in 5th grade they all get "Class of ..." t-shirts from the high school as promotion gifts.

And for college spirit day, I think DS has shirts from very college every member of my family has attended and then some. We have UCLA, U of Washington, Cal Arts, UCSB, Montclair State. We don't discriminate. And the boys in DS class are so into the college sports, that they were college gear on many days of the week, not just the designated day.

[pinkdutchtulips]

I took dd to see my alma mater, UC Irvine, for the 1st time last Christmas ... she was 5. Never too early to plant the seed

If she ends up where I went to school or her aunt (CAL) or anywhere else it wouldn't bother me in the least ... I just want her to go !!

[Deleted]

I went to University of Kansas, so it's easy to stay excited about it with basketball and I have many friends from college still, but I'm not that worried if my kid goes there or elsewhere.

[kershnic]

Eh, I like my college but am not obsessed. DW went to a big popular state school and I would say her family is obsessed. My kids have tshirts from my undergrad, her undergrad, and one relevant grad school.

I have heard about research that shows that getting kids specifically thinking about college - including where they might go - as young as elementary school increases the chances that they will go to college. It doesn't mean they'll really go to THAT college. Sure there's lots of arguments that college is not for everyone, but for a lot of kids college is pretty important to future success. If your kids (like most MMM kids) are already on a college track this exercise won't hurt them.

[momin2013]

Sept 2, 2015 15:37:41 GMT -5 Jennyanydots said:

Sept 2, 2015 15:16:23 GMT -5 momin2013 said:

Yeah, this.

And we care even less about "college football" 

Putting my kid in a university shirt for school would just seem...odd to me.

Actually, I will have you both know that my girls will be disowned if they want to go to UWO.

Well, I think there are worse options. 

I truly have not given it an ounce of thought for DS yet; I'm more concerned about what it's going to cost. 

[osulori]

We live really close to where both J and I went to undergrad (like 20 minutes away) and two hours from where I went to grad school. We would love it if AJ went to school at one of those colleges because they're familiar to us but if not that's okay.

I would definitely say J is a little obsessed, me not as much despite my SN.

[thebreakfastclub]

Where I live, it's "wear your football jersey day" next week at day care.

I suppose they mean college or pro. Here it would be more likely to be an NFL shirt.

I don't think it pressures kids to think about college. I think it's like when someone's dad played high school baseball, so he can't wait for his kid to do the same.

If I cared about a school or a pro team, I could see getting my son something. But I don't.

[bowies]

I grew up in Southern college towns. It's just so interlaced with my life. We live far away now but the indoctrination will start early. I won't be mad or sad if the kid(s) don't go to my alma mater though. He'll need a scholarship or a lotto win for us to float that.

[cjeanette]

Oh this would stress Eleanor out to no end.

She likes KU and KSU because of her parents. She likes Harvard and Yale because...well...she thinks she is Rory Gilmore.

We would need a custom made shirt

[mmmomof2]

We're about 90min (without traffic!) to our alma mater. We definitely visit the campus a few times a year and talk it up. They have a few shirts to wear.

One of our local charters assigns each student to a college and then they are supposed to wear that college's shirt to school on spirit days. DH was horrified at the idea our kids would have to wear a rival school's shirt. We opted not to apply to that charter!

[miso]

Every single Wednesday is college t-shirt day?

That's stupid.

[brooklyn]

I loved my college, but it closed. And since it was a woman's college, J wouldn't have been eligible to go anyways. We do like H's college, but I want J to go where he will be happy, and if he's not into engineering, he probably won't be into H's alma mater.

I do want him to go to H's high school though.

[rugbywife]

Sept 2, 2015 15:13:29 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

I live physically close to my university because I never left town, lol. But people don't care about colleges and universities here in Canada like you guys do in the US.

I don't really care where my kids go, but if they're math dorks like me, I'd encourage them to consider my alma mater.

Yeah. This. I would be ok with my kid going to U of T but, meh. There are other schools I think offer better options depending on what you want.

[rugbywife]

Also, our college system here rocks and if university isn't the right plan for either of my kids, I hope they go to college if it works. University doesn't fit the needs of all learners.

[pooh8402]

I live close enough to have season tickets to football games. And go to the occasional basketball and baseball games.

We're also donors to the alumni association. Dh isn't even an alum.

If our kid wanted to go to school at my alma mater, we would be ecstatic, of course. But he doesn't have to go to school there. We would support his choice to go to school anywhere.

We'll still dress him in clothes for my school until and unless he protests. And we do plan to bring him to games and campus events like Muster.

[monsterz]

It is highly unlikely that Jr will go where I went to college as I went to an all women college.