1SWMom
Post 12/06/2023 07:17     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Bobo is ethnic slang for a pacifier or hair plastic ties, she’s using it incorrectly. I would also tell them to please use proper body part names as this helps children with boundaries and god forbid incident reports in the future.
Anonymous
Post 11/13/2023 02:03     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Anonymous wrote:I thought you meant that little chair for kids that can't sit up, what is that called, a Boppo or something?


Lol BUMBO
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2023 17:34     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Anonymous wrote:For the PP with the Puerto Rican husband. Bobo means dummy or fool not mute in Spanish, so it has nothing to do with the pacifier hindering speech but with pacifiers, I assume, dumbing kids. Not a particularly nice was of putting it IMHO. Pacifier is nicer...


Dummy / dumb and mute are mostly synonymous. They both mean someone who doesn't speak.

Anonymous
Post 11/12/2023 17:09     Subject: I hate it too. I've even heard it used as a surname and that's even worse.
Anonymous wrote:It's a bottom, or even butt. I will except rear end or even hiney, although it's not my favorite. My DD daycare teacher calls it her bobo, so now my daughter does and it makes me cringe. I literally hate the word.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2023 14:30     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Tell your child that you don't use that word at home.

Anonymous
Post 09/28/2023 14:27     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Anonymous wrote:For the PP with the Puerto Rican husband. Bobo means dummy or fool not mute in Spanish, so it has nothing to do with the pacifier hindering speech but with pacifiers, I assume, dumbing kids. Not a particularly nice was of putting it IMHO. Pacifier is nicer...


You know what dumb means, right? And why pacis are sometimes called dummies?
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2023 14:11     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!

You're weird to get so fixated on one word, OP.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2023 13:44     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Anonymous wrote:Bobo is old-school slang for generic or off-brand, to me.

DH and I still use it occasionally tongue-in-cheek.



Same! But i now also think of Bobo Choses brand.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2023 08:20     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
It's cool Daddio, bussin', no cap.
Let them have their slang. Stop creating drama.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2023 08:01     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We said that because my husband is Puerto Rican. It means mute and the Puerto Ricans use it to describe pacifiers, since they can inhibit a kid's ability to speak.


OP said her DC uses it for her butt, not her pacifier. FTR, pacifiers do not inhibit speech.


FTR, they can.
Anonymous
Post 09/27/2023 23:11     Subject: Re:I HATE the word Bobo!
Haha we grew up calling your bottom a bobo. I'm not sure where it started but everyone on my dad's side says it.
I think it's adorable, my kids say it too.
I've seen a few old cartoons call it that too.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 10:36     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
For the PP with the Puerto Rican husband. Bobo means dummy or fool not mute in Spanish, so it has nothing to do with the pacifier hindering speech but with pacifiers, I assume, dumbing kids. Not a particularly nice was of putting it IMHO. Pacifier is nicer...
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 08:54     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Bobo also means idiot or fool in Spanish. What nationality is the daycare teacher?
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 08:50     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Bobo is old-school slang for generic or off-brand, to me.

DH and I still use it occasionally tongue-in-cheek.

Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 08:37     Subject: I HATE the word Bobo!
Bobo is what we call my idiot brother-in-law...