Words that turn me off another mother

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Anonymous wrote:Do people actually say “boymom?” I thought it was just a Facebook thing.

They may not verbalize the phrase (while using it on social media), but IME are the ones who constantly say things like, "that's the difference between boys and girls!" or "he's all boy" or "girls are so dramatic" or some other such nonsense. Enough, already.

Ahh...you would hate me. My girls (and their friends) are quieter, more compliant, and more socially aware than my boys (and their friends). I comment on it regularly.
I also refer to my kids as “bigs” and “littles.” But not to their faves. My four year old would flip!

[Anonymous]

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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.

So are people just not allowed to root for those teams? Is no Redskins paraphernalia acceptable to you? You must be loads of fun.

I'm not the PP, but yes, that's right. They need to ditch their "mascots" and I AM tons of fun, TYSM! I don't hate those people, but no, I don't like it, and it puts at least a bit of distance between me and them.

I find it ridiculous that you put "distance" between yourself and people who have grown up rooting for a particular sports team, but then again you're probably just doing us all a favor.

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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.

I STILL call my son Stink or Stink Man. He's 9.

I hate you. I never think anything to do with butts is cute. I don’t want to think about farts or poop or hear about it. I like to pretend we are all robots from the waist to the knees.

Everyone knows you poop every day.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I STILL call my son Stink or Stink Man. He's 9.

I hate you. I never think anything to do with butts is cute. I don’t want to think about farts or poop or hear about it. I like to pretend we are all robots from the waist to the knees.

Everyone knows you poop every day.

Sure, but there's no need to TALK about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people actually say “boymom?” I thought it was just a Facebook thing.

They may not verbalize the phrase (while using it on social media), but IME are the ones who constantly say things like, "that's the difference between boys and girls!" or "he's all boy" or "girls are so dramatic" or some other such nonsense. Enough, already.

Ahh...you would hate me. My girls (and their friends) are quieter, more compliant, and more socially aware than my boys (and their friends). I comment on it regularly.
I also refer to my kids as “bigs” and “littles.” But not to their faves. My four year old would flip!

I wouldn't hate you, I just wouldn't want to hang out with you, probably. That kind of gender stereotyping does no one any good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people actually say “boymom?” I thought it was just a Facebook thing.

They may not verbalize the phrase (while using it on social media), but IME are the ones who constantly say things like, "that's the difference between boys and girls!" or "he's all boy" or "girls are so dramatic" or some other such nonsense. Enough, already.

Ahh...you would hate me. My girls (and their friends) are quieter, more compliant, and more socially aware than my boys (and their friends). I comment on it regularly.
I also refer to my kids as “bigs” and “littles.” But not to their faves. My four year old would flip!

I wouldn't hate you, I just wouldn't want to hang out with you, probably. That kind of gender stereotyping does no one any good.

That’s cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who calls their father “papa” is a hard no for me.

I don't mind if kids call their parents mama or papa. I can't stand when people address or refer to a group of moms or dads as "mamas" or "papas."

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I haven't read through all of this, but if you are a mom and you refer to a "push present," I'm already kind of mentally putting you and me in different categories.

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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.

I also love to repeat all of my kids funny words, my husband and I do it all the time - even though we know we sound ridiculous.. bubba and sis are two that we've picked up.

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I can't stand when people refer to their children as "little b**ch" - for ACTING THE AGE THEY ARE....

I can imagine there's some Jerry Springer-level ish where you could get away with it and it would be fitting, but calling a 10 year old girl that because she's acting like a 10 year old girl is just beyond.

[Anonymous]

I love this thread! I'm a judgmental asshole when it comes to language other moms use. I cringe when I hear people refer to their kids as "littles". And I've never head anyone say their kid like "the boob" but that would be a show stopper for me as well. lol.

As for "piggy" or "pig", my daughter started calling US that as a joke when she was in kindergarten. She has a good sense of humor and she wasn't referring to weight. All the same we have corrected her. Somehow it's not cute when a preteen does that!

I call my daughter "little bug" which probably makes other people cringe, but I can't help it. We started when she was little and used to roll up in a ball very much like a small bug. It just stuck. Comes right out of my mouth without me even realizing it.

The "papa" or "poppa" to refer to father or grandfather - ew I hate it too. My nieces and nephews call my own dad "poppa" and I tell my kids "it's grandpa".

[Anonymous]

I won’t be friends with moms who don’t use babysitters. The ones who only use family. It’s not the babysitting thing per se - but it’s akways so indicative of the kind of mom I can’t stand.


I’m curious about the mom who hates the wine in sippy cup jokes. I don’t make those jokes and I definitely don’t wear a Rose All Day t-shirt (!!) but why does that bother you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who calls their father “papa” is a hard no for me.

Along those lines, I can't stand it when women refer to themselves as mama, like "this mama is so tired!" Those same people often call their children "littles." They both drive me crazy for some reason.

+1

Both annoy the crud out of me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I won’t be friends with moms who don’t use babysitters. The ones who only use family. It’s not the babysitting thing per se - but it’s akways so indicative of the kind of mom I can’t stand.


I’m curious about the mom who hates the wine in sippy cup jokes. I don’t make those jokes and I definitely don’t wear a Rose All Day t-shirt (!!) but why does that bother you?

Eh, we don't use babysitters but you might still be friends with me. No issue with them and we totally would if we had to but both of our families are here (extended) and have lots of cousins/grandparent sleepovers plus we love Netflix. No need to spend money on it when we have very willing family who do it for free (and we reciprocate with sleepovers).

The things that annoy me are the boymom, mommy juice, blessed, boobs all the time. I really think that the tell is the hashtags. If you are a multiple hashtag person, we probably won't be friends. Hashtags and semicolons should be used sparingly.

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I try not to be judgmental about actual parenting choices, but there are some instagram hashtags that annoy me when deployed with NO irony or sense of humor: #boymom #blessed #momlife #adulting and when the parent hashtags their child's first and middle name #LaraPeony