To find people who give their daughters the nickname "Moo" annoying?

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I know it's only a small thing but it's so irritating; whatever happened to a bit of originality? I know about 5 people that call their DD's "Moo" as a nickname.

Some of our close friends have a DD called Molly, and they call her Molly-Moo constantly. We have had to endure the tale again and again about how up until the age of 5 "Molly-Moo" thought her real middle name was Moo. Oh the hilarity of it!

I post on another forum and there is a woman on there who's DD also has a name beginning with M, and she calls her Moo, too. Every post is about "Moo" and "Moo did this" rather than her proper name.

There are also some other mums at the school that call their DD's this. What makes me laugh is they all think they're being so clever and original, when they're not. Find a more original nickname!

cardy my mum is the same as you. she can't stand nicknames. as a child we were very close to my cousin whose name is kathryn-anne. her mum shortened it to katy-anne and my mum forbid us to use it even though her mum used it for her.

When DD1 was born DH jokingly used to refer to her as Ptarmigan. A Ptarmigan is a bird that posh people like to shoot and DH's ridiculous boss gave us one full of bullets as a birth present. DD1 has been known as Ptarmigan ever since but only inside our own home. We manage to recall her christened name when out and about.

Cardy there's nothing wrong with 'normal' names but don't you ever slip a silly name in somewhere, just for the hell of it? What don't you get? Seriously.

there is nothing wrong with normal names. Theyget used most of the time. But sometimes people just play around with names, sounds - sometimes for speed, sometimes out of affection.Parents of toddlers often call real things different names when their children are developing sounds.

Nothing wrong with it. DD has a long name. DS2 couldn't manage it. DS1 liked calling her silly things to make her laugh.

It is hardly radical or unusual

I call mine all sorts of things. DS is dude, or small fry, or pixie, or pixie-pops.

DD is often missy, or even missy-moo!!!

none of these are in any way related to their names - I just call them whatever pops into my head!

DS4 was Chunky-Monkey shortened to Chunks.
DS2, who is now 10, was, ahem, Pots and Pans or Potsy for short. .
DD is Stella-Bella-Mozarella and DS3's is so embarrassing I'm not going to say it.

BUT I would NEVER use these in public and my kids would kill me if I did. They are strictly indoors, family names. (Now on the World Wide Web of course.)

I squirm when people call their kids Moo, Boo, and Sausage in front of me.

Am racking my brains as to what on earth Pagwatch and Greeny can possibly have written on a thread like this which MN felt the need to delete!!

my DD's nickname is moomin, we shorten that even further to moo. Her name doesn't start with an M. We decided on moomin long before she was born so IMO YABU

There seems to be a bit of an obsession on MN about what other people call their children. Wasn't there a thread fairly recently whinging about "liitle man" as a nickname for a boy? I seem to remember "unoriginal" being flung about disparagingly on that one too.
Why do you care? We call our 15 month old little man, wee man and The Boo, or just Boo. None of it is terribly original but we like it.
YABU and need to get over it. It's not like they are calling YOUR children names.

Spider - I read this before they were deleted and can't remember reading anything too shocking! Am intrigued now!

Mine (called Katharine but Kitty for short) gets a variety of pet-names:

Kitty Pickle/pics
Pinkle Purr
Popsie (by my Dad)

Pinkle purr is probably the most frequent. It's one of my favourite Milne poems and she has it as part of bedtime so it's kind of stuck

"At home, yes fine, people can call children what the fuck they like."

Glad to hear that, OP. Thanks.

PMITP I was trying to make the point that if your op was - people who refer to their children constantly, when talking about them to other people, by their nicknames ie. at parent's evening are 'annoying' - then I might have been on board.

But your choice to put peoples backs up by limiting your ire to 'moo' lost my sympathy.

oh and for the record, I don't care if other people call their children Chardonnay Fruit Shoot. The world would be boring if all the children had some Mumsnet Mafia approved "tasteful" name

I have two friends who caled their first born ' boo' , as in 'oh boo only slept two hours last night'
they must have thought they were original or something

I wondered that too, Spidermama !

"they must have thought they were original or something"

Yeah, because most names are so original, aren't they

Oh dear - I now know I am horribly unoriginal!! I have an M named DD2 and I often call her M-Moo. It's more of a term of endearment than a nickname to be honest. If she's upset or hurt herself / crying etc I'll probably cuddle her and call her 'my little Moo' in the same way as I'd call her darling or baby or sweetheart.

oh yes, ds1 christened ds2 'bing' while he was i was still pregnant and my sister still refers to him as bing. no-one else does but it has stuck with her.

I have a Moo :o
I'd far rather have a common nickname which the dc will grow out of, than a very common name which they have all their life. So yabu.

i'm definitely not original as i call both my ds' bear occasionally!

I never get deleted...
Moo rage.

cardy and booooooooooyhoo I thought it was usually a term of endearment to call someone by a nick-name, something different than the name every one else called them by hence why usually reserved for DHs and DCs....what's wrong with that?

I think OP YABU, my DD1 loves things that rhyme and/ or start with the same letter and came up with the nick-name we now call DD2 which is "DD2 Boo-Boo" as it rolls of the tongue and has the same sounds in it as her real name. I think it is sweet hearing people call their DCs nick-names, I do cringe a bit though when I hear people using their DH's pet names in public, that is a bit much I think!