Stubborn Hats

Stubborn is a family diagnosis, made by the people who live with it. One report on older parents says 77% of adults think their parents are stubborn about accepting help with daily tasks, and a local-paper column on keeping dad off ladders traces the refusal to dignity and independence: he can afford to hire the job out, but he wants to do it himself. Caregiver forums and search boxes are full of the same story, from the dad who won't see the doctor to the one who won't be told about the ladder. These stubborn hats turn the family's complaint into the wearer's own flag. Two badges, STUBBORN and SET IN MY WAYS, carry the search terms. The sentence designs are all self-owned bits: a mind that is made up and closed to facts, a doctor visit that waits until something falls off, a single change of opinion back in 1987, a job done alone with complaining throughout, a chair standing in for the ladder, and opinions sold as non-refundable. MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY closes the set as the oldest ultimatum in the house. I CHANGED MY MIND ONCE IN 1987 and MY OPINIONS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to own the reputation, or give one to the person in your family who has never once taken the advice.