Words that turn me off another mother

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i run away from incessant narrating in a loud attention seeking voice that could cut glass.

Haha, yes! I know talking to your child is important (even when they are too young to understand everything/talk back) but is it really necessary to narrate your ENTIRE thought process through out the grocery store in a sing song voice?

“There are some apples! Should we get some apples? I know daddy likes apples & we haven’t had them in a while so let’s get some! How many should we get? How about 6? Ok, let’s pick out 6...1.2,that looks like a good one!,3...”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i run away from incessant narrating in a loud attention seeking voice that could cut glass.

Haha, yes! I know talking to your child is important (even when they are too young to understand everything/talk back) but is it really necessary to narrate your ENTIRE thought process through out the grocery store in a sing song voice?

“There are some apples! Should we get some apples? I know daddy likes apples & we haven’t had them in a while so let’s get some! How many should we get? How about 6? Ok, let’s pick out 6...1.2,that looks like a good one!,3...”

These people are THE WORST. They only do it when they see that someone is around to watch them be a good parent. I would bet that when another adult isn't around, they are just cruising their phone. "it's a BIG tree ARLO." (also, they make sure that you HEAR the incredibly cool and unique name that they gave their kid, that part is important too....)

[Anonymous]

Anyone who uses the word "three-nager."

YEs, all moms know that three year olds can be challenging, and recognize challenging, horrible three year old behavior.
But,your kid is some kind of diagnosable horrible, like it's not normal to bang your head on the floor because someone opened a box of kleenex, that's not a "three-nager."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who uses the word "three-nager."

YEs, all moms know that three year olds can be challenging, and recognize challenging, horrible three year old behavior.
But,your kid is some kind of diagnosable horrible, like it's not normal to bang your head on the floor because someone opened a box of kleenex, that's not a "three-nager."

Even for DCUM calling a child “some kind of diagnosable horrible” is pretty low.

[Anonymous]

If you say #boymom or #girlmom, attribute personality traits to gender or sexualize preschoolers by calling my son a ladykiller or a catch, ewwww gross. No we are not friends.

If you dress your kid in Cleveland Indians or Redskins gear (super common at our preschool) then I assume you are either racist or clueless and I don’t want to know you.

I drink. I don’t care if you drink. But if you make “mommy needs wine” jokes or talk about putting wine in sippy cups or have shirts with alcohol jokes like “Rose all day”, we’re probably not going to be friends.

My kids don’t have allergies, but if you roll your eyes about safety precautions for kids with allergies in our kids’ classroom and act all put out that someone else wants you make a few small changes to keep their kid safe, then I assume you are a selfish bitch who probably texts when you drive and doesn’t give a shit about anyone else’s kid but her own.

[Anonymous]

This thread is awesome! The knowledge that the people that would judge me for a linguistic quirk, before getting to know me, might want to self-select out of my life is fabulous! Please keep right on doing that ! I do and will happily continue using words like boobies and "littles" as a noun, because a) I'm a grown-ass woman, who could care less about insulting someone's delicate auditory sensibilities; and b) as a general rule, I prefer to spend my time around people that judge each other on more substantive stuff than word choice. Larla tosses poppies into traffic as a family-bonding exercise = not someone I'd choose to befriend. Larla is a sweet person and we share many interests, but she pronounces "door" as "doah" -- I could give a flying fudgecicle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is awesome! The knowledge that the people that would judge me for a linguistic quirk, before getting to know me, might want to self-select out of my life is fabulous! Please keep right on doing that ! I do and will happily continue using words like boobies and "littles" as a noun, because a) I'm a grown-ass woman, who could care less about insulting someone's delicate auditory sensibilities; and b) as a general rule, I prefer to spend my time around people that judge each other on more substantive stuff than word choice. Larla tosses poppies into traffic as a family-bonding exercise = not someone I'd choose to befriend. Larla is a sweet person and we share many interests, but she pronounces "door" as "doah" -- I could give a flying fudgecicle.

Glad you don’t care. I don’t like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moms who refer to their children as "sissy" and "brother" or even worse "bruh-bruh."

The worst.

It bothered me to until my son started calling his baby sister "sissy" and referred to himself as "big brother" all on his own. Then I found it cute and will sometimes find myself referring to her as Sissy to him. No harm no foul.

Same. Sounds weird until your kid starts saying it on his own and then you just pick it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is awesome! The knowledge that the people that would judge me for a linguistic quirk, before getting to know me, might want to self-select out of my life is fabulous! Please keep right on doing that ! I do and will happily continue using words like boobies and "littles" as a noun, because a) I'm a grown-ass woman, who could care less about insulting someone's delicate auditory sensibilities; and b) as a general rule, I prefer to spend my time around people that judge each other on more substantive stuff than word choice. Larla tosses poppies into traffic as a family-bonding exercise = not someone I'd choose to befriend. Larla is a sweet person and we share many interests, but she pronounces "door" as "doah" -- I could give a flying fudgecicle.

Glad you don’t care. I don’t like you.

Say it isn't so! I'll be over here, sobbing in my cereal (DCUM really needs a middle finger emoji.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is awesome! The knowledge that the people that would judge me for a linguistic quirk, before getting to know me, might want to self-select out of my life is fabulous! Please keep right on doing that ! I do and will happily continue using words like boobies and "littles" as a noun, because a) I'm a grown-ass woman, who could care less about insulting someone's delicate auditory sensibilities; and b) as a general rule, I prefer to spend my time around people that judge each other on more substantive stuff than word choice. Larla tosses poppies into traffic as a family-bonding exercise = not someone I'd choose to befriend. Larla is a sweet person and we share many interests, but she pronounces "door" as "doah" -- I could give a flying fudgecicle.

You are being overly simplistic, these words and phrases are reflective of the kind of person who chooses to use them. For example, insisting that your child refer to you as “pater” or “mere” when you are from Fairfax, is more than just word choice. It’s contrived and pretentious. As is the use of the term “spirited” when your child is tearing apart a book at the library. Context needs to be considered here.

[Anonymous]

Littles. HATE IT

[Anonymous]

Kiddo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is awesome! The knowledge that the people that would judge me for a linguistic quirk, before getting to know me, might want to self-select out of my life is fabulous! Please keep right on doing that ! I do and will happily continue using words like boobies and "littles" as a noun, because a) I'm a grown-ass woman, who could care less about insulting someone's delicate auditory sensibilities; and b) as a general rule, I prefer to spend my time around people that judge each other on more substantive stuff than word choice. Larla tosses poppies into traffic as a family-bonding exercise = not someone I'd choose to befriend. Larla is a sweet person and we share many interests, but she pronounces "door" as "doah" -- I could give a flying fudgecicle.

I'm going to add "grown-ass" and "flying fudgecicle" to the list of terms I hate.

[Anonymous]

The thing that drives me a little crazy is how moms raise their voices when speaking to their children in public. I don’t mean scolding, I mean having a perfectly normal conversation with your kid, who is most certainly saying adorable things. It’s like they want others to hear because it’s just oh so cute. It’s not overly obnoxious - just a little. And it bugs me. The funny thing is that I know I did it. I read a complaint about this common behavior on this site and then never did it again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is awesome! The knowledge that the people that would judge me for a linguistic quirk, before getting to know me, might want to self-select out of my life is fabulous! Please keep right on doing that ! I do and will happily continue using words like boobies and "littles" as a noun, because a) I'm a grown-ass woman, who could care less about insulting someone's delicate auditory sensibilities; and b) as a general rule, I prefer to spend my time around people that judge each other on more substantive stuff than word choice. Larla tosses poppies into traffic as a family-bonding exercise = not someone I'd choose to befriend. Larla is a sweet person and we share many interests, but she pronounces "door" as "doah" -- I could give a flying fudgecicle.

I'm going to add "grown-ass" and "flying fudgecicle" to the list of terms I hate.

Me, too!