I will put my hand up and admit that I myself tick every single one of the hipster hallmarks on this list.
My son’s name is weird-ish, not celebrity-baby-name weird but unusual enough that The Man and I recently discovered that we are still spelling it differently (he’s two). We enjoy a blended kale beverage in our house from time to time, and The Man has a fairly lustrous beard that he is disproportionately proud of (I suspect that this is due to his rather sad patchy attempts at facial hair during his teens).
10 Signs You’re a Hopelessly Hipster Mum:
1. Your kid’s got a weird name.
2. You ride a bicycle that you can transport your whole family on…
3. Your child drinks kale smoothies.
4. You say things like: “Look who ate all their courghetti….”
5. Your child learned the word ‘coffee’ before the word ‘juice’ and insists on taking his llama milk with a drop of espresso.
6. Your child accessorises like a BOSS – the amber teething beads is as much a remedy, as a sartorial statement.
7. Your child has more band tee-shirts than you do.
8. You say things like: “Do you want quinoa porridge or chia seed pudding?”
9. Your child only wants to watch really retro sitcoms like Mork and Mindy; he likes Thomas and Friends but thinks the original audiobooks with Ringo Starr were better, natch.
10. You’re always trying to get him to wear the psychedelic Alpaca poncho you brought back from South America, which he hates because it’s insanely itchy like a hair-shirt. Just give in and put the boring navy fleece hoodie on him, even though it kills you…
