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Anonymous
school environment vs. daycare environment it's all the same thing and FWIW the way the term came about was not due to parents but actual "teachers" at school -they prefer being called that vs. care provider. |
Anonymous
| Whatever term describes teaching your child to refer to him or herself in the third person and referring to yourself as mommy and using the third person verb. So irritating. |
Anonymous
| Playdate. I hate it. I hate when my kid says it and I hate when parents say it and I hate that I say it now, too. Whatever happened to, 'can so-and-so come over to play?' Why must it be 'can I have a playdate with X?' |
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"Put down." And I say this all the time "Did you put DS down?" "I just put him down." etc. They are not wounded cattle. I don't where I picked this up but I just cannot shake it (and I'm trying).....my Mom pointed this one out, and she's right (damnit, I hate that.....)
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Anonymous
ITA....and I'm an AP mom  .
I dislike "playdate" though I use it myself. I'm trying to bring back the antiquated and simplistic "play" as in "DS is going over to X's house to play". I know if I set up enough playdates for DC and refer to it this way it'll make a comeback! 
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Anonymous
If I was a "real" teacher and went through four years of college plus whatever masters program...I would find this BEYOND annoying. |
Anonymous
Yes! I'm pregnant with my first and I know I will start saying this becasue "When in Rome..." but whatever happend to "Can Timmy come over and play?" |
Anonymous
To quote Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons: "And hillbillies want to be called 'sons of the soil' but it ain't gonna' happen." |
Anonymous
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Yes PP!!! I am a teacher--bachelor's plus master's and countless other trainings, certifications, other grad classes, etc...I do not do what I see teachers do in daycare. The two cannot be compared.
It kills me! My kids are not even in daycare, but at babysitting. A friend of my keeps telling me that my 2 yo needs to go to school--that he needs to be with 'teachers' and not a babysitter. Really?!?! Annoying as hell! |
Anonymous
You beat me to it. This one drives me nuts. I never had a single "play date" growing up, but strangely enough I spent tons of time playing with other children, at one of our houses. Odd. |
Anonymous
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This may be veering slightly off track, but I lump the birthing part of a child's life into my broader concept of parenting:
I hate the term "interventions" when referring to anything other than allowing a laboring woman to squat in a corner all by herself to give birth. So much as hint at anything medical and it's an "intervention" - I envision family members gathering to confront the laboring woman, demanding that she make the changes they feel she must, or she's out of their lives for good. |
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Agreed, agreed, agreed about the teacher/daycare thing.
A friend admitted to me she only does it to make herself feel better when she was going back to work after maternity leave. Which I find is just sad, she shouldn't feel bad about daycare to pretend it another way. |
Anonymous
well this is why people who live in and around washington, dc can be so annoying -everyone wants a title to make them feel special -and i had this training and i had that training -do you enjoy your profession or do just enjoy saying that you have a masters, countless hours of teaching, etc. as long as the children and their parents are happy -who cares what you call it... Find something more important to worry about -like perhaps the children in Haiti who have no school/daycare, no home, no family left.... |
Anonymous
I find it miraculous that we made it a whole two pages in before someone invoked the poor children in Haiti we should be thinking about instead. PP, could you be any more laughably self-important? |
Anonymous
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I completely and whole heartedly agree about the teacher vs. daycare provider thing!!
Some daycare provider's may very well be former teachers.. but they aren't all. If your kid is under school aged they do NOT go to school. If your provider has less training than a teacher then they are NOT in fact a teacher. To the poster who's bitching about titles hello, get a clue. Teachers is in fact a title.. one that is earned. Get over yourself. We all have things that annoy us.. why did Haiti have to be brought into it? Next we'll be told we should all be feeding starving orphans instead of thinking about anything related to our own lives. |