to want to scream everytime someone refers to their daughter as "princess"

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and want to scream even more everytime someone refers to my daughters as princesses, as though that's a normal epithet for 'girl' or 'daughter'?

Argh.

YANBU

My Irish Dad used to call me his little Knacker...which basically means Gypsy or Tinker!

My Mum used to call me a Tinker whenever I was up to no good (most of the time!)

oh lord! I use wee man and little man for my DT's, DH is Scotish so the wee bit is catching, I mainly call them my pickle, which my Dh HATES! and the handsomest boys in Kent...that said they lost their crown on that this week when I was in Tesco...god! that boy was cute! but don't worry I won't tell them, but My boys are my pickles and I will fight you to the death over that!

YANBU. Although I do sometimes call 19yo DD princess in private! I don't plaster it all over my fb wall to induce nausea among my friends and family or make her wear princess t-shirts! Boak!

'Little man' infuriates me!

I hate it.

Princess I can tolerate.

no it's not a london thing, unless they watch eastenders

it's awful!

Oh, there's nothing wrong with terms of endearment - it's just princess that I find boakworthy - my own dad used to call me what can be losely translated as "thundergoat", I still like that

YANBU

We had the misfortune of spending 2 hours queueing up to see Father Xmas last weekend behind 2 parents that insisted on constantly calling their daughters "Princess". Awful

Princess in a home environment and a term of affection is fine but what's not fine is when its used as a 'my child is prettier/more angelic/perfect than yours' as some one I knows does.

She is completely PFB although its her second child (first girl) even though the child is a real brat. But the mum laughs it of as a, well she is such a special little princess she doesn't have to behave/follow instructions/be nice.

I agree with pants. I often see it used on FB i.e "I luv u Princess, mwah mwah gawjus gyal". Utter shite. I always wonder if the people posting declarations of love for their 5 year olds on FB actually appreciate that the 5 year old won't read it!

I often called my sons 'little man', my daughter is still my 'little lady', occassionally 'princess' or 'queen'. I also called them lots of other nicknames 'babe', 'darling heart' etc. I couldn't care less what other people think, or indeed what loving nicknames they call their own children.
OP get over yourself.

It doesn't particularly bother me when I hear it - but then I am guilty of the great MN sin of saying "little man" or "wee man".

The thing that makes my toes curl up is the slogan t-shirts - "mummy's little princess", "daddy's little hero".

Or even worse, the ones for babies that say "My daddy is so cool' or "My mum is the best". It's basically just plastering "Aren't I wonderful" all over your baby! I saw one the other day that said something like "My Daddy is strong, clever and cool". I nearly threw up all over the shop floor.

I get what you are saying. Not many strangers would refer to someone's son as prince. Although I am guilty of calling my ds prince when he was young, but only in private!

DD's nickname is and probably always will be 'Princess Squid'

So YABU

YABU. I call my 16 month old DD princess sometimes. As a term of endearment. And I'm not into the royal family or Disney princesses. But DD is such a girlie girl, despite us only having boys toys as I have an older DS, she loves handbags and dolls prams (my DS's!), shoes and trying to put on clothes....so she is a little bit like a princess!

I don't, and have had from friends when I explained that I felt it was inappropriate.

I have higher aspirations than a sappy old princess for my DD! Princesses are dull.

My dad called me princess when i was little, unfortunatly he passed 20 years ago so now i am no ones princess, every little girl deserves to be a princess for the day and i call all my friends girls princess, i have 2 ds - they are my angels. i think yabvu, at least it is a nice name

What do handbags and dolls prams have to do with princesses? If she'd be wearing a crown all the ruddy time whilst pushing the pram you might have a point.

not as annoying as when a child is having a tantrum (normal thing for a young child to do) and then being told oh she is such a princess

no she is not she is a child having a tantrum or an older child acting up not a princess stop indulging her

You never hear anyone saying "Mummy's little brain surgeon", do you? Maybe I should start

OH often refers to DD as "princess". I was a bit annoyed as I dislike the term and think that it should be kept for those of Royal lineage, but then we agreed to settle the argument by referring to the font of all knowledge, the Oxford English Dictionary, which does state that 'princess' can be used as a term of endearment. He is only allowed to use it with a small 'p' though.

It is much better than hearing parents screeching at their kids "come here you little shit/brat/

The princess thing doesn't bother me. But I was gobsmacked to see an old classmate refer to her infant daughter as "my sexiiii babeeee" on facebook. Sexy? What an odd thing to call a child.

YANBU.
It is annoying. I think what annoys me most is Tue discrepancies between boys' and girls' clothing. Girls get 'princess' and precious' and boys get 'monster' and 'litter but loud' It really pisses me off.
Calling your daughter princess at home is fine but plastering it all over fb is annoying. I have one 'friend' that is incapable of referring to her DD without using the term princess. Her statues are all 'X is sat on the settee with her perfect princess.' 'X can't believe how wonderful her princess is.'

I think telling a little girl she is a perfect princess all the time is vomit inducing and probably not good for the little girl either. So no, YANBU.

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