Parents also have struggles during the Back to School season searching for their child's favorite character lunchbox, or the hottest label jeans, or whatever the trendy fad of the moment is.
If you are fans of ours on Facebook or follow us on Twitter, you may have noticed Lauren's recent rants about finding a backpack for her son. Of all of the backpacks on the market, he requested a To
m and Jerry Backpack.She's done a ton of searching, high and low, and has had no luck finding one. A fan of 4BabyAndMom suggested a transfer, but now her search has switched over to trying to find a light colored backpack that has a large enough flat surface that would accommodate a transfer.
What backpack does your child want? What was your favorite or most memorable backpack when you were a child?
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I got my girls (preschool aged) two different prints of this backpack: Day Pak by Fleurville. They love them. They seem well made and they fit a preschooler better than other backpacks we've tried.
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We are all (well except my husband) going to school in Sept. I've been home with my twins for 3.5 years so it is bittersweet. I'm excited, but sad, too.
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I am dying to get my kid a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine Back Pack! How retro! LOL!
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My niece is heading to preschool and wants an olivia bookbag! My favorite one was a disney princess one! :)
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my son will still be using his john deere backpack, for a second year in a row. it was a high quality backpack, and looks brand new still.
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ReplyDeleteAnything Hello Kitty. I never got to carry a backpack because I went to a private school.
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We don't do character-themed backpacks. We got a regular backpack (purple) and our kid loved it until after the Upward Basketball season. All of the players got an Upward-themed backpack and that quickly became the new favorite. Right now, the backpacks are still in good shape so I don't see a new one in the near future.
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I never bought my son a character backpack, I usually bought him a navy one.
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I had a strawberry shortcake backpack I liked.
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my daughter wants a cinderella backpack.
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I'm a mean mom and don't buy character anything....Mya picked a nice flowered backpack from ll bean!
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I'm usually happy when the boys go back b/c it's usually been a l-o-n-g summer but this year I'm sort of sad. Mya is starting "real" school and she's the baby :(
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My son wants an Optimus Prime backpack (Transformers). They only have "Bumblebee" at Target so he didn't want any backpack. I just saw they do have Optimus on Amazon. The funny thing is, he has never even seen the show.
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I don't have any memories of specific backpacks, but I still use a simple small black one instead of a purse (never got used to purses). My girls are all about princess and Barbie, so anything with either of those things makes them happy!
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I have mixed feelings about my girls going off to school. On the one hand, it's so much easier to get the stuff done that I need to get done without worrying how I am going to entertain them, plus it takes half as long. On the other hand, I miss them!
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I remember the first backpack I had that was just a plain, solid color (blue) because I felt so grown up.
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My daughter wants a Dora backback:) I remember my strawberry shortcake backpack:)
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My youngest son wanted a Cars backpack. He had his pick from all the ones at Target, and even though I tried to pursuade him to get the TS3 one, he insisted on Cars. It was so cute that he was so insistent that I HAD to get it for him. My favorite as a child was.... probably my high school backpack. It was a Jansport, and lasted me all 4 years. Woohoo! lol
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My son wants Pokemon & daughter would love anything Barbie.
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My son doesn't want a specific back pack, he is just grateful that he will be getting one; he doesn't try to be like everyone else.
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He wants a Max & Ruby backpack. I remember one with a rainbow on it that I loved.
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My favorite was a blue Tweety backpack :D
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My children don't want backpacks. My favorite backpack as a child was the purple one that I got in the 8th grade. The zipper broke about three months after I got it.
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I got a jansport backpack with a rubber bottom when I was a freshman in highschool. It was $60 and my mom was like "this is your last backpack!" The funny thing was it was! The backpack lasted 8 years after that. A great buy!
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My daughter really wants a purple ICarly backpack!
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My son wants a Mario backpack. My favorite backpack as a child was my little mermaid one.
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I had a ninja turtles backpack in grade school! Even though I was a girl, i Still thought I was the coolest.
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My favorite backpack I had growing up was purple, it had wheels so I was able to pull it behind me, and it had tons of room for all of my stuff.
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My son had mentioned he wants a new backpack this year (although his old one is still good) but we have yet to look at them so I honestly don't know what he wants.
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My most memorable backpack as a child was a furry Tweety Bird Backpack. My daughter really wants a gossip girl backpack
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We had regular bookbags. They looked alot like todays Messenger Bags. I always had a plain green bag.
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My son (14) likes a no frill backpack. He does like funny shirts however
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Sigh, I'm older and we didn't really use backpacks! Gasp - the school had enough lockers for us to keep our books in them!
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Like the person who posted before me,we didn't use backpacks for school.I rarely brought school work home. I did love my Barbie lunch box though!
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