Words that turn me off another mother

[Anonymous]

I frequently use the expression "not my circus, not my monkey." One day when my daughter was acting a bit crazy, my wife looked at me as said, "that's your monkey, and this is your circus." As a result, I often find myself referring to her as my monkey when I am talking to my wife or myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Little" as noun.

I didn't realize this was a thing. We call DD "little" as a noun sometimes because of a "littles" book we liked from the dolly parton imagination library. She is little and I think it's sweet. I've never heard someone call their baby a pig.

I'm with the PP - MLM is awful and if you're anti-vaccine - we are done. Other than that, I'm not going to judge you. But I think most moms have too much going on to care whether someone who overhears their conversation wants to be friends.

We got this book last month from the Dolly Parton library (random aside: does everyone get the same book each month?) anyways, my 18 month old is obsessed with it like she’s never been with another book. I was never one to use the term “littles” but it doesn’t bother me and it’s a cute book.

Agreed on MLM and anti-vaxxers. At least both tend to be pretty loud and proud about these facts so it’s easy to opt out of their social circles.

[Anonymous]

I don’t call my kid pig or little piggy but my mom called us piglets all the time when we wolfed down huge meals or whined for endless snacks and it was always said with love. She says it about my toddler now who is small for her age but still manages to eat practically adult-size portions sometimes. When I use it occasionally it’s also with love for my child and as a little reminder of my own childhood. (I also exclusively refer to her toes as piggies and have been known to shout, “piggies first!” when she’s descending something at the playground.)

Also, pigs are super cute and certainly not “the worst” possible animal in America. I don’t know what America you’re living in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I frequently use the expression "not my circus, not my monkey." One day when my daughter was acting a bit crazy, my wife looked at me as said, "that's your monkey, and this is your circus." As a result, I often find myself referring to her as my monkey when I am talking to my wife or myself.

I hate that stupid expression.

[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.

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.

I kinda hate families where the kids call the father "papa" if they're not like german or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I frequently use the expression "not my circus, not my monkey." One day when my daughter was acting a bit crazy, my wife looked at me as said, "that's your monkey, and this is your circus." As a result, I often find myself referring to her as my monkey when I am talking to my wife or myself.

I hate that stupid expression.

Well perhaps you didn't have a grandfather from Poland, who you loved greatly, and who used that expression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kiddo.

Hate it.

[Anonymous]

My mom made a cross stitch of three pigs holding forks and knives with our names underneath them!

I am pretty judgmental and I like other judgmental people. I like people with opinions and who think. I don't like people who try too hard to be nice or sweet or nonjudgmental. I don't like people who constantly toot their own horn.

I like the down to earth, life happens, laid back, live each day and as long as everyone's alive, thats a good day type people.

[Anonymous]

Fudgcicle, fudgecicle, fudgecicle, fudgecicle, big-ass fudgecicle!

[Anonymous]

On the pretentious lingo point — sure, I can see that, but presumably the obnoxious behavior would not be a one-off and would extend to other aspects of a mom’s personality. You know, attendant personality traits, like being a self-important jerk that feels entitled to police other moms’ vocabularies.

[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."

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

[Anonymous]

Oh you guys, I call my baby "poopsie" because she poops so much. Do you ALL hate me or just some of you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I frequently use the expression "not my circus, not my monkey." One day when my daughter was acting a bit crazy, my wife looked at me as said, "that's your monkey, and this is your circus." As a result, I often find myself referring to her as my monkey when I am talking to my wife or myself.

I hate that stupid expression.

I enjoy that expression and am amused by pp’s wife turning it back on him!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

We could possibly get along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh you guys, I call my baby "poopsie" because she poops so much. Do you ALL hate me or just some of you?

We often call our toddler (in public) Stinky or Stinks (ex: She starts calling for me on the playground and I say, “hi, Stinks! I see you way up at the top of the slide!)and we do it because she had so much gas as a young infant.