Most annoying modern parenting lingo

[Anonymous]

What do you find to be the most annoying terms of art that parents use? For me it has to be "DC has X number of words" and recommendations that kids "use their words." I understand the theory, but it sounds so silly when there is a perfectly good word for this already. I think some parenting manual must have decided that the word "say" in all its forms is no longer appropriate for children. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

PP here.. that doesn't mean discipline should be a horrendous experience.. but get real. Everything in their little lives does not have to be positive.

[Anonymous]

Potty "learning"

[Anonymous]

WTH is it a Play Yard instead of a Play Pen? Be real, its a place to stash your kid so they can play without you having to worry about them getting into everything.

[Anonymous]

I might get flamed for this but I hate when people call Daycare "school" and Daycare caretakers "Teachers". FWIW, I use a daycare center and love it.

[Anonymous]

I loathe both paci and binky. They are loathesome rather than just annoying babyish words because invariably, the women who use these terms are the ones with 3 yr olds who "need" the "paci."

What they really meant to say is Mommy "needs" the PACI in her life so she doesn't have to deal with helping her growing *child* to cope, nor does she need to listen to him whine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTH is it a Play Yard instead of a Play Pen? Be real, its a place to stash your kid so they can play without you having to worry about them getting into everything.

Ha! I never noticed how rediculous this is. You're so right. I suppose "pen" has pig pen connotations, whereas "yard" makes it somehow seem posh. Too funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I might get flamed for this but I hate when people call Daycare "school" and Daycare caretakers "Teachers". FWIW, I use a daycare center and love it.

me too!

[Anonymous]

calling a baby a "bad sleeper" if he/she doesn't "sleep through the night."

[Anonymous]

Calling a kid a "good" baby because s/he doesn't cry, and basically doesn't ask to be cared for. A baby is a "good" one if it doesn't need you.

[Anonymous]

"Attachment parenting." As if there were any other kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I might get flamed for this but I hate when people call Daycare "school" and Daycare caretakers "Teachers". FWIW, I use a daycare center and love it.


me too!

Me three. Your 6 month old doesn't go to school, people.

[Anonymous]

I find the people who care what other people call things EXTREMELY annoying. Its says so much about your own insecurities when you get your knickers in a knot because someone didn't describe things the way you wish and you read something into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find the people who care what other people call things EXTREMELY annoying. Its says so much about your own insecurities when you get your knickers in a knot because someone didn't describe things the way you wish and you read something into it.

Nah, I disagree. Maybe some people on here have aversions to lingo because of their own insecurities, but for the most part some terms are just annoying because they are annoying.

For me, annoying lingo is when something has been called the same thing for decades and all of a sudden (hence "modern") parents feel the need to change what they call something either because of some study, because of some fleeting parenting trend, or because a manufacturer discovered they could sell more of a product if they changed the name to have more appealing connotations (i.e. play yards).