A mom is cringing over the baby clothes — emblazoned with phrases like “grandma’s best friend” — that her mother-in-law keeps buying.
The woman, who detailed her dilemma on the parenting forum and community website Mumsnet, is torn over how to tell the baby’s grandmother that the clothes are not being worn due to those “cringey” slogans and the “clearly low-quality” material.
“Instead of buying baby items we’ve said we like or need, she keeps buying baby clothing with pointed and cringey ‘grandma knows best’ slogans that I find so embarrassing to dress her in — so I don’t,” she explained. “I have no idea where she finds this nonsense.”
“She’s deliberately going out of her way to buy them,” she continued. “A lot are clearly low-quality rubbish from the internet.”
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The woman also listed other phrases that have appeared on the clothes: “Grandma: a mother without rules,” “Pass me to grandma,” “If mommy says no, ask grandma” and “Call grandma: she always knows what to do!”
“It’s not her first grandchild, and up until now, I thought we had a good relationship, but now I feel a bit irritated with her,” she noted.
The mother-in-law apparently now keeps asking why her granddaughter isn’t wearing any of the outfits that she finds to be funny. The Mumsnet user, wondering if she’s being unreasonable, asked the forum if it’s okay to not dress the baby in these clothes and tell the mother-in-law to “cut it out.”
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One reader offered a simple solution to appease everyone involved. “Take a photo of the baby in them, send her the and take off the clothes immediately afterwards if it bothers you,” that Mumsnet user replied.
The person added, “They are tacky, but in absence of any other behaviors, she just sounds excited.”
Other people took issue with the first-time mom’s word choices. “If you don’t like the slogans, fair enough, but to say ‘low-quality rubbish’ sounds snobby — you need to get over that,” one critic concluded.
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