"My grandkids are cuter than yours"

Yeah, cause that's all kids are good for is how they look uke

I feel sorry for her grandkids that they have a grandma who is so superficial

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Maybe, maybe not. My mom had a good friend who told her, when I was about 18 months old - so her ds was a year - that I was, hands down, the cutest baby she'd ever seen. So...maybe your dd is just really, really cute?

I'm not really bothered by bumper stickers like in the OP, but I do wish we, as a society, didn't jump to showing pride by putting down others so often. There are better ways.

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That was insensitive, but I could see how someone could just make a thoughtless remark like that by mistake, with no ill intent.

But actually saying "cuter than," and making the decision to buy this item and take the time to put it on your car -- that's a whole other thing, IMO.

Well I'm all for raising non shallow kids, but it wouldn't be much of an improvement if the license frame said:

"My grandkids are way more well behaved than yours are!"

"My grandkids are smarter than yours!"

"My grandkids breastfed longer than yours!"

I'm one of those people that thinks most bumper stickers/license frames are kinda dumb anyway- no one actually cares if you love Def Lepard, really.

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Ha -- me too. I look at some and think, "Really? That's the ONE thing you want everyone who passes you on the road to know about you? Oooookay..."

I would assume it was tongue in cheek.

I don't see what the big deal is : At least the grandma is into her grandkids. thats more than some of us can say.

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Sorry . . . that really got my funny bone.

My grandkids are cuter than yours, that's kind of goofy I must say. Here's a shirt, actually a onesie I saw the other day, "My Mommy is Hotter Than Your Mommy."

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No, I don't think that's an apt comparison. The equivalent would be if someone had an "I'm a better mom than you" mug instead of a "World's best mom" mug.

If the license plate frame had said, "Grandma to the world's cutest grandkids" I wouldn't have even thought about it.

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I don't really know how to say this gently, so let me apologize in advance.

I think you are taking a bumper sticker waaaaaay to seriously. Yes, I agree it is stupid but I personally think bumper stickers are stupid anyway.

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I totally have that onesie, and one that says "My Daddy is Cooler Than Your Daddy", I think they're funny.

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I (respectfully) disagree. Language is powerful, and so much crap has become commonplace that I think as a society we've become desensitized to some really harmful stuff.

Not that I would lose sleep over this issue, but change has to start somewhere, right? I would bet that if we all really started paying attention, we would be shocked at the number of similarly tasteless (?) messages we see on a daily basis, don't even notice, yet absorb like sponges.

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THis my thought (assuming I had grankids) would be ARE NOT mine are! totally kidding of course.

Deanna