This morning, Nicole was telling the guys about her family whistle. When she was younger and would go anywhere with her family, whether it was a huge grocery store or a small convenient store, they had a special whistle they would use to find each other in case anyone got lost. Nicole would whistle and her parents or sister would whistle back until they found each other.
Rich thinks the whole idea of a family whistle is a little strange. He can just imagine a young Nicole wandering around an amusement park by herself, whistling for her parents. Stan thinks Nicole’s family whistle sounds straight out of Jiminy Cricket.
Nicole defends her family whistle, and thinks that it’s important for any family with children to have a whistle as a sort of buddy system. Does your family have a whistle?
Play the scorpions winds of change!!! Hahaha
Oh and when my family loses eachother we just scream their name…
I am just starting out with my family, but Nicole, I think thats a great idea! What a way to know where your family is. Thanks so much!
We did not have this but I remember being TERRIFIED lost in a Kmart when I was little, this would have helped a lot. I think it is a smart move for a family. You can’t always hear people yelling over the noise of others talking.
Yes, my family had a system like that also when I was growing up. No matter if we were running aound the neighbor hood, the camp grounds or visiting relatives. If we heard my dads car horn, 2 to 3 blows, we knew we had to go home, now. And if it was long, laying on the horn, we were trouble.
I was so excited when i heard you you guys talking about this on the radio, my family has a family call and everyone makes fun of us, but when someone is lost it works!
If someone in our family got lost, we would just yell out their name. It’s our Hispanic nature. lol
My family does, I was raised by my grandfather who was blind, so he obviously could “look” for us kids so, he would whistle and we would know it was time to leave or he needed something.
Was Nicole dad a sea captain and one summer a novice from the nunnery came over to babysit them??
What if someone that isn’t your family starts whistling the same tune after they hear it just to do it? How do you hear it if you are in a crowded place? I have never heard of something like this before!
Most definetly. My daughters and I have a special whistle from day one. My brothers and the kids in the neighborhood (70′s)used to use it, whenever one was bored and wanted someone to hang out with, we’d do it (the whistle), from the field and anyone who was able to go outside, would come a runnin’. My daughters and I started doing it in the stores, etc. we found it to be very effective, and much more polite to others around us than screaming out someones name. Noone knows what it means, or ever really notices it. Sure, sometimes the older people around us catch on, when I whistle, and a moment or two later I have two kids right by my side. Most of them get a kick out of it. I had one old man think it was cruel. But they are better kids because of it I feel. They know, when I whistle…. I am done, and that is it, times up. While my younger daughter HATES it now, she still comes a runnin’ I just whistled from the liveing room, to show them this. Yep. Still works! LOL