"Grandbaby"

Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna guess that the OP's MIL says this, and OP can't stand her MIL, so not matter what MIL says, OP would come here and complain about it.

I'm OP. You are wrong. My MIL doesn't say "grandbabies" but I hear it other places and find it really off-putting. I looks like I'm not the only one, either. And 20:35, I never called my baby "baby" but they had other cutesie nicknames, which I still use even though they are teens.

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02/25/2015 00:46

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My grandpappy called me his grandbaby. I loved it!

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02/25/2015 05:17

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OP, is this really the hill you want to die on?

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02/25/2015 10:14

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one whose teeth get set on edge by this term? "Granddaughter" "Grandson" or "Grandchild" are fine, even "Grandkid" but "Grandbaby" really, really annoys me for some reason. (Which I realize may be totally irrational, but there it is...)

If it doesn't annoy you, did you call your own child your "baby?" as in "Oh, I have to take my baby to the pediatrician tomorrow?" I wonder if that's why it sounds grating to me; because I never used "baby" only "son" and "daughter" or "kid"

It's common in my circle for dads and mums to refer to their babies as... "the baby". My partner and I perfer to use the baby's name if we're talking to someone who knows whom we're speaking about. As in: "I need to take Mary to the pediatrician's tomorrow". If the person we're talking to wouldn't know who Mary is, we say "the baby" or "my daughter/son" interchangeably.

I only hear the term "grandbaby" rarely. I'm indifferent to it.

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02/25/2015 10:30

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