SquirtBlurt.com broadcasts your child's clever quips to an appreciative audience
By Amanda Finch Broadfoot
A parent's day is full of perfectly ordinary moments. For us, we were relaxed on the couch on a Sunday afternoon. My three-year-old son, Billy, kept demanding that we blow on his tummy, a favorite game. Then suddenly, he requested, “Blow on Mama's tummy!”
I dutifully pulled my shirt up a few inches to expose my abs – or where they used to be before two children. Delighted, he blew on my stomach a couple of seconds ... then stopped. He stood up, pulled my shirt back into place and shook his head. He explained sadly, “This tummy is too big,” before slowly walking away.
Did I get on the phone and call my mom? Record this moment in my son's baby book? Well, eventually. But thanks to a new website, SquirtBlurt.com, I can share this instantly classic piece of family history with a wide network of appreciative moms and dads.
SquirtBlurt is the brainchild of co-founder Sundy Aimee Visbal, a mom of two young children, and her two friends, Jeremy Self and John Malloy. “The idea came to us because our kids are at that age when they say really funny, precious things, and we wanted a place where we can share what our children are saying and read what others had to share,” said Visbal.
Visbal points out that while almost everyone has Facebook and Twitter accounts, those networks aren't always the appropriate place to chuckle over your kids' gutbustingly funny turns of phrase. Are the single co-workers in your Facebook network really going to appreciate what your son had to say about potty training? Will old college chums “get it” when you post your three-year-old's hilarious versions of nursery rhymes?
“My kids will say something really funny and then five minutes later I’ve forgotten what it was they said,” she explained. “Squirtblurt.com is a unique site that focuses on those cute and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny things children say.”
The process is simple: Create a free user profile -- a process that takes about a minute. Within another minute, you'll be “blurting,” typing in your favorite anecdotes and sharing them with SquirtBlurt's network of fellow parents. Once your blurt is live, others on the network can vote on its hilarity, mark it as a favorite, or make a comment.
“Hot blurts” make it to a highlighted spot on the home page, and parents with the funniest blurts can find themselves on the “Monthly” or “Daily Leaders” board. If you decide you do want to share your blurts with your Facebook friends or Twitter tweeps, a built-in click-and-share button makes the process seamless.
I should warn you, though: SquirtBlurt is highly addictive. I log on to share my kids' blurts, and find myself unable to stop reading others. Yasmin, age four, describes Little Miss Muffet, sitting on her tuffet, “eating her curtains away...” Mateo, age 7, tells his mom: “I'm a god.” Three-year-old Elizabeth informs her parents that she's “having a rough day” at 8 o'clock in the morning.
Our kids grow up too quickly. In a world that's frequently too cynical and jaded, SquirtBlurt.com lets us freeze those priceless moments of kid wisdom and for a few minutes look at the world through the innocent eyes of a child.
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