To HATE those fecking "My heart belongs to Grandma" t-shirts?

[LittleOneMum]

I love my ILs, I really do. But they arrived this weekend with a t-shirt which says "my heart belongs to grandma" on it for my DS (2). It's going straight in the charity shop bag. Who makes these monstrosities? His heart does not belong to grandma, thank you very much. If it belongs to anyone other than him, it belongs to me, thanks very much!

Jeez. Feel free to add your most hated slogan t-shirts on here too. Feel my pain!

I mentioned upthread that the tshirt hell site was designed to offend and the guy who founded it thrives on the attention.

I didn't link to it at the time for that reason

"What happens at grandmas stays at grandmas" - bought by MIL who lives very far away. Bearing in mind DS has never been to Grandmas, I didn't so much as dislike the t-shirt as just think it was incredibly inaccurate...

However there is an Alpha Mummy (The Times) posting linking to some amazingly offensive baby t-shirts incl the ever classy "I tore Mummy a new one".

Ooh! Forgot about Twisted Twee. They're brilliant and very weird. Bla bla bla, I hate slogan'd babywear apart from some of the ones on their website.

DH bought DS this one when he went to a beer festival and DS wore it a lot. And my mum bought DS/DH this set last christmas, which they did actually wear out together sometimes. Hmm, both beer-related.

i've seen one with 'mother sucker' on it. awful.

Loving Twistedtwee!

DS and DH had these from Twisted - they looked fab and got so many compliments when they wore them. Pint

I saw a babygro which said 'I tore Mommy a new one' on it. I had to giggle, because it was so true (for me anyway!) But in bad taste, obv.

I don't hate these in principle on children, some of them are nice. My little boy has a couple with "I'm the king of the castle" and pictures of sandcastles on them. His surname is King, and they are cute! I do hate the ones that say unpleasant things about the children wearing them, or are rude - it just seems unnecessary.

Mind you having a boy I do regularly rant to all my friends about how difficult it is to get proper little boy clothes that do not either say something dreadful on them about him being a monster / terror etc, but that aren't scales down gangsta rapper / combat clothing. I do have lots of lovely things for him, but does it have to be so hard???

My personal bete noir:

"Girl bait" on a 6 mo blue T-shirt

Have just been taking out old baby clothes to wash for new arrival and found one I like. It's a vest from the London Transport Museum shop and has underground logo with Angel on the front and another one with Way Out on the bottom. Nobody ever saw it as it was a vest anyway

omg there just t shirts some are good some sre really cheesy same as most things in life

I like those London Transport ones, alana, although we never actually had any.

DD found one of the very few examples DS had the other day - it says 'Messy Monster' and has a monster on it (I bought it for him to wear to a monster-themed party) and she has been wearing it a lot since she found it.

DH brought home a "Mommy's Little Princess" T Shirt from DisneyWorld to wind me up - DD wearing it is a sign of extreme laundry crisis (and that we are not leaving the house that day )

Generally speaking, my DC are allowed to have silly slogans/ characters/ superheroes on PJ's but not on anything that leaves the house.

re London Transport tees - there is a company that will let you order baby bodysuits/tees with the name of any underground station on them. I don't have the site to hand - begins with a Z though.

We considered getting DD a shirt that said 'Made in Twickenham' because she was born when were living there, but then decided that bordered on weird.

On slogan Tshirts I think it is rather unfair to put tshirts on kids to make adults laugh...

but my massive pet hate is cutesy maternity tshirts. "It started with a kiss" etc etc make me want to be sick!! I mean what next - an arrow on maternity jeans with the slogan saying "appalling hermerrhoids?" Ahhh. Sorry off topic I know.

MrsW - how many people were left wondering what the hell 'APSN' meant ?

I had two quite cute babygro vests with "Spit Happens" and "AB/CD" (in font of AC/DC) when ds was tiny. they made me giggle when i was pregnant so I bought them.

I can't bear slogan t-shirts on children. Even worse are baby t-shirts of bands their parents love. When Lazarou Jnr is born, he/she will only wear band t-shirts if he/she actually loves that particular band. Same goes for football shirts - he/she will only wear one when/if he/she is old enough to decide which team to support (I haven't told my brother this yet - he has dressed our poor nieces in Chelsea tops since birth).

What about:

"Slugs, snails and puppy dog tails"

"My mummy's a yummy mummy"

"I like mud" (had a picture of a hippo on it)

"Boy"

"Baby"

Or just the word of the picture on the tshirt. For example zebra with a picture of a zebra or panda with a picture of a panda etc.

Thought of a few more.

"Fossils rock" with pictures of fossils

"Wiggly scribbly" with scribble

"Blast off" with a rocket

"Little explorer" with forest scene

"Park ranger" with forest scene

"Wild outdoors" with forest scene

Tshirt with building site scene which has signs with "stop", "construction" and "beware building sites can be dangerous" on them.

I rather liked "Mummy Rocks" when DS was tiny. I think it was a -6 months one. Otherwise all vetoed, although I was tempted by "Mum + Dad = Me", but he is only 1 and we are still Mummy and Daddy.

I still don't see the problem with band t-shirts. Are you going to let a baby go naked because they might not like that colour or style of the outfit, obviously not of course but I fail to see the issue.

When they're young you choose what they wear. To me choosing a band t-shirt for them is no different from choosing any other outfit for them to wear.

That said I don't like football shirts on kids because of all the nonsense that's associated with football teams.Well that's certainly the case here with the rivalry between the two big teams.

agreed about the band shirts

I don't like football gear because the sponsors' logos are bigger than the team name. Sorry, my baby isn't a billboard for samsung or whoever.

I hate that pro breast feeding one that says "I like milk from my mum, not from any old cow". I did breast feed my son and am pro breast feeding and yes it's obviously better - and hey there's a pun in there - ha ha - but to put this on a child? The message that anyone who doesn't bf doesn't give a shit about their child's nutrition? That they just can't be arsed? What about all those women who are gutted because they couldn't bf for whatever reasons, despite all attempts (I have three friends who fall into the category and I know how hard they found having to accept that). It's so smug superior it really makes me feel nauseous! Sorry if someone's already mentioned this one, haven't read the whole thread ... I don't like messages on kids generally. Like the Labour party women in our town who had red balloons they were handing out to kids - who of course want them because they are just nice red balloons to them - and looked at me as if I was some sort of cruel mother when I said no my son certainly was not going to have one. My child is not free advertising for anyone, let alone the Labour party! PS OP I like your use of the word fecking - it's not used enough!