Sorry 49-year-olds, you aren’t valid grandparents according to Toys”R”Us. The toy retailer and validator of family roles told 49-year-old Linda Peters that she wasn’t old enough to use a 20% off coupon for grandkid-spoiling grandparents.
“It’s discriminatory,” Peters said. “How do you put an age on a grandparent or a mother or a father, for that matter?”
Toys R Us tells 3 On Your side they always have to set guidelines when they have promotions and for this one, they say establishing an age requirement was appropriate.
But Peters disagrees and says Toys R Us may claim to love grandparents, but what they really mean is that they love “old” grandparents.
“To assume that someone over 50 is a grandparent and that someone under 50 is not a grandparent, it’s not fair,” Peters said.
We’re old fashioned—to us, anyone with a grandkid is a grandparent. What do you think?
Young grandmother feels shortchanged by toy store [AZFamily.com]
(Photo: ThatBeeGirl) (Thanks to Greg!)
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38? Pah – there’s a family in my daughter’s school where gran picks up the kids – she’s only just turned 30 and is pushing a pram with a grandkid in it.
@Skipweasel:
You win!
I became a grandfather at 36. I’m now 39. I would do anything for my grandkids, however shopping at Toys R us is now off limits (at least until they clear this up.) The grandkids LOVE me taking them to the local library for reading time, plays, and ice cream afterwords. It’s nice handing them back to mom & dad after I’m done spoiling them!
LMAO! I’m 48 and my wife and I are working at having our first child! This whole TRU story is stupid! It’s almost as if they are trying to define who is or can be a grandparent. What morons!
I await the inevitable Consumerist post on this one (attached) …
“We love heros! 20% off! Firefighters, Police Officers, Military Personnel…”
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My parents were married 18/19 respectively, and had me when my mom was 19. I’m 38 now. So if I had decided to have my kid earlier, they could have been grandparents at my age.
Arizona is looking more and more like Arkansas every day.
Palin is going to be mad when she goes there to stock up on Tonkas.
On the day I got married to my wife who is 10 years older than me my step daughters son became my grandson. I was 33.
Rj
My grandmother was 35 when I was born. She married at 15 and had my mom at 16, then my mom got married at 18 and had me at 19.* No way should Toys-R-Us be discriminating like that. If they wanted the coupon to be for 55 and up or whatever, they should have printed that on the coupon.
*I am nearly 32 and don’t have kids yet, because I have learned from their examples that it’s important to be an adult before you become a parent.
Ain’t Sarah Palin 44? And a Granny to be? Or does it take 7 years to birth a baby in cold dark Alaska?
I agree, it is age discrimination! If you have a baby at 15 and your child has a baby at 15, you’re a grandparent by 30. Clearly you deserve a discount!