Most annoying modern parenting lingo

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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....

This post made me laugh. To your point - isn't it the daycare providers upgrading their title because they feel entitled to do so!?

And good work in taking a light hearted post and making it exactly what it's not about.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I don't see what the big deal is about. My DD is in PT daycare and she is, in fact, being taught things there. THere is a curriculum, esp for the toddlers and upward from there.
Also, we just use the terms "school" and "teacher" because it is easier than explaining "daycare" or "childcare." Didn't realize some viewed these terms as such loaded terms.

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You have to explain "daycare"? Maybe whoever doesn't understand the term needs to spend some time with an actual teacher.

Annoying term -- Nappy for nap. A nappy is a diaper, people.

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I don't know why it rubs me the wrong way, but I hate it when people say DC is "very verbal." Usually the parent is either saying it to passive-aggressively brag, or is saying it to excuse some other behavior.

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"Raising" children. It used to be that you raised crops and cattle and reared children. Now it's both, but I can't get the cattle out of my mind. What happened to our language? Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to explain "daycare"? Maybe whoever doesn't understand the term needs to spend some time with an actual teacher.

Annoying term -- Nappy for nap. A nappy is a diaper, people.

Not the PP, but it's certainly easier to talk about school and teachers to my toddler. What a silly thing to get so worked up about.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to explain "daycare"? Maybe whoever doesn't understand the term needs to spend some time with an actual teacher.

Annoying term -- Nappy for nap. A nappy is a diaper, people.

I say nappy. My kids spent their first 4 years overseas, where diapers are nappies. Sp we call them nappies. We also call pants "trousers." LOL

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I think it's humorous to be annoyed at certain terms and phrases, my own included! (I say "school" for daycare, knowing full and well that they're not the same; but it's easier to just say "school" when telling my Pre-K child that we're taking baby to "school," which is located in the same building as Pre-K I don't know why I'm even bothering to explain... I suppose everybody has their reasons for the terms they use!)

I get annoyed at "play yard" as well. And "play date."

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I say "use words" when my 4 year old regresses back to being 2 years old and babbles.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why it rubs me the wrong way, but I hate it when people say DC is "very verbal." Usually the parent is either saying it to passive-aggressively brag, or is saying it to excuse some other behavior.

LOL For us, it's usually the other way around -- people tell US that our daughter is "very verbal" because she talks non-stop!

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I second the "put down" note from PP. Whenever I say I am going to put my son down, my husband says, "But he's such a nice baby. Do we really have to put him down?" Or something like, "Well, DS, you had a nice time so far..." He's right. The term is ridiculous!

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I agree with play yard.

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I like this thread. However, people have been "raising" children and "putting them down" (to sleep) for decades. I remember my baby-sitter saying "Quiet, I just put your brother down" back in the 60s. I think it's more Southern.

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Anonymous wrote:"Raising" children. It used to be that you raised crops and cattle and reared children. Now it's both, but I can't get the cattle out of my mind. What happened to our language? Sigh.

Well, since I "put my son down" maybe I should just call him cattle. Then I could feel better about putting him in the "play pen"!

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Anonymous wrote:Positive discipline. IMO discipline isn't supposed to be a positive experience.

Positive discipline is teaching children to do the right thing. Negative discipline is punishment.