Do you say 'bye byes' or 'nigh nighs'?

[Pixienott0005]

When referring to a baby going to sleep, which do you say.

[MalmseyWhine]

Night night.

[BertrandRussell]

Neither.

[Seeyounearertime]

Night night or sleepy sleeps

[LifeIsChaos]

I say goodnight, love you.

[MajesticSeaFlapFlap]

Goodnight grotbag

[unlimiteddilutingjuice]

Neither.
The baby just falls asleep on me.
For the toddler, if you must know, I go:
"Tuck, tuck.
Kiss for giraffe. Kiss for teddy, kiss for Jimmy. Love you, Goodnight"

[Tiggeryoubastard]

We said going to bed, but once there, 'night night' or 'goodnight '. Would never use those terms as a description, hideous way to speak down to someone.

[WorraLiberty]

Night night.

[SantanaBinLorry]

eeewww. Good night will surfice.
No woofy doggies, bo-bo's, siwey ickle baba talkie walkies needed at all.
Just real words spoken normally.

[Iguessyourestuckwithme]

It's time for a snooze or lets go Nun nights.

[wonkylegs]

Night night sleep tight
Don't let the bedbugs bite bite
(No idea why it's 2 bites but that's what my gran said to me and itstuck

[Pigeonpost]

Night night.

[sirfredfredgeorge]

"Sleep", baby talk is horrible, horrible, horrible.

[shrunkenhead]

Ñeither! I say "time for bed" and after bath/stories/tucking in/cuddles etc say "sweet dreams"

[shrunkenhead]

It's like "time to go Bo boes" wtaf?! It's on a par with bloody "do does" "dodies" etc just call it what it is!

[WorraLiberty]

This has just reminded me of when my DS2 was in the school nursery...so a class aged 3-4 years old.

One of the Mums waved her DD in and said...

"Mummy's going ta-tas. When I pick you up, we'll go to Auntie Nat Nats for some bic bics and lom loms".

She must have caught my bemused/inquisitive look, and explained it means she's going home and when she gets back, they'll go to Auntie Natalie's for some biscuits and lemonade

I just smiled sweetly but inside I was thinking, those poor teachers have to work that language out, to find out WTF she's telling them

[Elle80]

Night night or good night I love you.

My mum and dad always spoke to my brother and I using proper words and I always speak to my children the same. Why would you chose to teach your children incorrect words and language, to then have to re-teach it correctly at a later date. It doesn't make sense to me

[catbrushblanket]

ofgs! Mumset at its finest...

[WorraLiberty]

ofgs! Mumset at its finest...

Yes. People answering a question and giving their personal opinions.

Shocking!

[Caravanoflove]

Real words only here

[BertrandRussell]

Dd once dropped her toy out of her push chair and a kind lady rushed up to pick to up for her . She said "here you are, here's you're ....."then she looked at me and asked "Do you say Woof-Woof or Bow-Wow?" Dd took it with a big smile and said "My dog! Thank you!"

[staghunter]

I have a friend who says bysie byes instead of bye. My toes curl just thinking about it.

[witsender]

Made up words are fine with small children, baby talk is part and parcel of how many cultures promote babbling etc. The tone and pitch of the voice is important too, as is referring to yourself by name until they are old enough to understand personal pronouns.

We didn't say much when they were babies as they were in with is so didn't get put to bed as such, as they got older I guess we just kissed and cuddled, said night night, love you etc

[WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant]

Bye bye is what my toddler says when she or somebody else is leaving.

I have a crazy friend who says it to dd. She just looks blank.

We have 'bed' or 'sleep' for bedtime.

Snooze for nap time.

Good night. Mummy loves you.

Or good night. Love you. Have you brushed your teeth set your alarm put your clothes in the wash found your school bag fed the cat...

Depends which child.

[Notso]

Darn it kritters, I do believe it's sleepin'time
Avast ship mates it be time for sleeps
Get tha'self up them wooden 'ills to bed

There are more but I won't bore you. Silly voices feature heavily in my parenting.