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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My house. My friend. My boss. My day. My desk. My job. My coworkers. My baby. Not seeing the problem. Do you call the desk/computer/pen/employees etc you use at work "mine"? Would your boss be annoyed that you're referring to the company desk as yours, afraid you'll forget who it belongs to? If you're a manager or otherwise have employees report to you, do you call them "mine"? My admins? My nurses? My staff?

Yes, OP you're absolutely overreacting. [/quote]

Actually, it is totally different.  You refer to your boss as "my boss" when speaking about him in the THIRD PERSON, NOT when speaking TO HIM.

Ex 1.  You speaking to a friend: "My boss asked me to stay late today, how annoying!" 
Ex 2.  You speaking to your boss: "Hi, my boss, how late do you want me to stay?"

See how #2 sounds weird?  You don't call your boss "my boss" to his face.  You call him by his first or last name, Sir, or Boss, but not "my boss."  In the same vein, I am totally okay if nanny refers to DC as "my baby" in the third person when speaking to others.  Calling him "my baby" TO HIM is different.  Also, it's different between a baby and boss.  People do not get possessive about bosses, but they do about babies.  And I don't just mean me, the MB, but the nannies, too.  DC's nanny acted a little possessive and emotional with DC a few weeks in and I think that made me even more sensitized to her calling him my baby.

Also, I do not mean to imply that nanny crossed a line and is doing something unequivocally wrong by calling DC "my baby."  I was just wondering if it was an overreaction on my part to not like it and judging by the mixed responses, my reaction is not completely out there.
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