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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread.

Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

That’s what’s weird…that PP will only call her kids by a term of endearment if they’re injured or sick. So rigid and bizarre.

That doesn't seem that weird to me. I have noticed that I am way more likely to call my kid "sweetie" if something is wrong (they are sick or come home upset from school, etc.) because it's a way of conveying that I'm concerned about them. I think this is really common for parents.

Correct. If my kid comes home from school moping I'm going to say "What's the matter hon?" But if he's in a good mood I'm only using his name.
I loathe "Babe" for one's SO.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread.

Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

That’s what’s weird…that PP will only call her kids by a term of endearment if they’re injured or sick. So rigid and bizarre.

That doesn't seem that weird to me. I have noticed that I am way more likely to call my kid "sweetie" if something is wrong (they are sick or come home upset from school, etc.) because it's a way of conveying that I'm concerned about them. I think this is really common for parents.

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't quite the same, but it's one of my major pet peeves: when a parent insists on calling their child by both first and middle names in public. It's so obvious they just want everyone to hear the kid's name and think how wonderful it is.

"Mackenna Brianne! Come back right now!"
"Tanner Ewan! Please put that back."

That might be their name. Lots of people don't consider it middle...

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s take a beat. ESPECIALLY used in a corporate world complex.

Everyone I work with now insists they say it as corporate speak, but no. You heard it on HBO’s Succession as corporate speak. It was not actually corporate speak prior to Succession and I’m convinced it was some sort of mistake like when occasionally you’ll hear a legal Latin expression mispronounced in a lawyer/legal show because the writers obviously aren’t lawyers

People used that phrase in corporate settings prior to Succession. It's not an uncommon phrase. I noticed a lot of kind of therapy-minded phrases started sneaking into corporate jargon 10-15 years ago, and this is one of them. I also don't mind it because it's almost never a bad idea.

Corporate phrases I hate: out of pocket, circle back, deliverable, and random insults about power and hierarchy that reference totally different settings like "oh he's all hat and no cattle" to refer to someone with a big title and but little staff. "Take a beat" doesn't really register.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread.

Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

Those words are for your AP
Do not give your kids Oedipal complexes.

These words are infantilizing, so they are fine for kids but not okay for adults. If I heard someone referring to their spouse or GF/BF (or AP, lol) as sweetie or darlin', unless they were Southern with a heavy accent, I'd be weirded out.

"Babe" is okay.

Anonymous wrote:This isn't quite the same, but it's one of my major pet peeves: when a parent insists on calling their child by both first and middle names in public. It's so obvious they just want everyone to hear the kid's name and think how wonderful it is.

"Mackenna Brianne! Come back right now!"
"Tanner Ewan! Please put that back."

Anonymous wrote:All stop.
It is what it is.