Ds went shopping.....

[Todayissunny]

Ds 13 went shopping with a friend today and bought this t-shirt.... I took it back. Was i u? Would you feel OK with your c wearing this?

He's 13 so I probably wouldn't care - I wouldn't let him wear it out in public but I don't think I'd care about a kid slumming it inside wearing that.

Yes. I mean his fashion sence is Shite but I'm fairly certain it won't be the start of the slippery slope that means next week hes a heroin dealing hoodlum

He doesn't have school uniform so would probably wear it to school. ....

lol, thats quite funny, of course its ok for a teenager to wear it.

At 13 I don’t think I’d be too bothered. I mean it’s a crap t-shirt but it’s his choice of crap t-shirt.

Yes you were unreasonable to take it back.

It’s horrible but he is old enough to make his own decisions

Well, teenagers have got to rebel somehow, I suppose…

DH would have bought a matching one for himself.

I think you were a bit unreasonable but I wouldn’t let him wear it to school/around grandparents so I suppose that’s the same thing really.

I mean the emoticon there represents the word ‘shit’ as that is the commonly understood phrase, so while I don’t mind the emoticon I don’t like the fact that you’d look at the child and read a swear word.

I can be a bit prissy though.

He's 13, let him make his fashion clangers.

Then he can look back at old photos and cringe - like most of the population.

...lol....
Ist the First time he has shopped for clothes alone ( we don't buy many and most of his stuff has been hand-me-downs from cousins).

I thought it was law for teenagers to make appalling fashion choices ?

If its his own money - fine

If you told him to buy something suitable for aunt mabels funeral and gave him £50 - not fine

It's not to my taste but he's 13. If he can't make bizarre sartorial choices at this age then when can he. Yabu. Let him have his little rebellious moment.

I think it's quite controlling of you really.

I have a shirt that says "W⚓"

I think I'd take it back too, OP, I wouldn't want my DC wearing it.

Oh bless him

Lol....pick your battles, I really don't think this is a big deal.

Controlling ? me ?
Maybe I am......

I think you were harsh. If it had graphic swearing or something, fair enough. But that’s pretty mild and quite funny

The emoji is quite commonly used in mainstream adverts like hotels.com, its hardly offensive.

I’d have let him keep it, but would have purposely interpreted the emoticon as “poo” rather than shit and been studiously, embarrassingly clueless, perhaps encouraging younger sibs (in our case) to refer to him as “The Poo”....

My DS bought an extremely rude t-shirt. We went to visit his grandparents and he met us there. Wearing a thick sweater over the offending t-shirt. It was a very hot day...

God I'm old...l don't "get" the T-shirt

Laughing my head off reading this......
Sadly i think I am so worried about (me and my parenting) being judged if he wears it.....

I probably wouldn’t be bothered to take it back but it would almost certainly be lost in the wash/shrunk/banned from outside use. I don’t swear and don’t expect my kids to swear at home or public place.