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

[WidowWadman]

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.

Oh it makes my teeth itch when someone calls their dd princess. The general simming bleugh reaction was compounded when my SIL told off ds1 (which was fine - he had been a bit rude and v apt for her to scold) and tried to teach him that girls need/like to be treated as princesses. I still have pent up rage over that. My 4 go by an assortment of endearments but none put them on a pedestal.

You don't hear boy-y boy but you do hear 'typical boy'. My ds likes mostly stereotypical boy things despite being born into a house filled with toys aimed at both sexes. I really don't get the princess hatred. I wouldn't force it onto girls but if they are given the choice why the hell shouldn't they like princesses? DD likes princesses, dinosaurs and bugs at the moment. And she wants to be a doctor when she grows up - like her granny.

"Precious" is worse.

My DD is 'gorge' (as in gorgeous) 'angelface' 'sweetpea' 'lovely girl' 'baby'. I don't think princess is any worse or better tbh.

DS is 'hans' (as in handsome), 'lovely boy', 'baby'.

i hate it too.

I hate girls being referred to as princessy i can feel my skin crawl if i see it , I had a friend who had twinsesses makes me want to vomit and slap them , girls are not little princesses ,

DD is Princess Pushy to her daddy. She is my chick.

My dd's nickname is "Chicken", no idea where I picked that up from, especially when she is a kungfu Miss Piggy really!

Precious? sydney all my family say this.

threads like these are so horrible really.

Who cares what others call their children...I mean really?

Oh, apart from calling children sexy

Seen at the local carnival this summer:

Little girl in a flurry of pink polyester with a placard round her neck: "Mummy's Little Princess".

Little boy (assumed brother) in camo gear, holding a plastic rifle, with a placard round his neck: "Daddy's little soldier".

I just really hope they didn't win the fancy dress competition.

I call dd 'princess'

I've always used it as a term of endearment. I also call her kitten, monkey, monster, sweetie, pet...

The boys are generally 'little man' or 'baby boy' (5 and almost 3!) as well as monkey, pet, monster, sweetie.....

Random children that don't belong to me are sweetie or pet

dd's best friends mother calls girls (even me as she's old enough to be my mother too!) honey, sweetie or pet.

i would rather hear any term of endearment than some of the nasty, aggressive and downright horrible words and names i hear some mothers use!

fwiw, my dd is 19 and is either my precious or my flower-pot, i dont care, i love her beyond anyone and i dont care who knows it!

I was called Princess by my nan right up until the day she died when I was seventeen. It's a term of endearment. I often call my daughters princesses or angels.

DH calls both DD and me 'princess peach', no idea why, but it's never struck me as a pukey type nickname. DD is also referred to as 'bumble bee' though, as her initials are B.B. So I wouldn't say we are guilty of assigning 'entitled' nicknames to her, bees work pretty hard

I know a little girl actually called Princess -its not big or clever! Such a shame as her middle name is such a beautiful normal name that would have suited her so much more, can you imagine being a 30 year old called Princess?? I'd have to change my name!

Anyway my DD is poppet or little miss fairy pants! So YABU to hate pet names-we all have them. My dad used to call me Floss!

Ugh, princess is horrid - sounds so spoilt! YANBU!

icooksocks... princess peach is the female character in Super Mario

i call mine princess sometimes but thats because she is YABU

"Princess" in our family, is a sarcastic term. Anyone inclined to having "entitled", foot-stampy sort of moments would be described as a proper Princess.

But then I truly detest the expression "little man" for small boys too. Horrid.

Can't really say I've noticed this, but all boys here so maybe I don't pay as much attention?

All three of my boys get their names used interchangeably sweetpea or honeybunch, not really sure why (they are aged 3-9).

Ds3 sometimes gets called the Bossy Boiler because he's the most demanding and has worked out that he has his older brothers wound right round his little finger and they will do anything for him.

Santa- yep, that's the one, but neither DD nor I have ever needed rescuing by an Italian plumber, so god knows why DH feels it's appropriate

Like others I have come across girls whose actual name is Princess. Also am aware of a fair few Angels.

wee man
little man
my baby (e.g. 'my baby's coming home' - from uni)

and people over 20 saying 'mummy'.

I dislike the use of "princess" for little girls because of the various associations that come along with it: helplessness, passivity, emphasis on physical appearance, spoiled behavior, etc. The "girly girl" culture reinforces some tired old stereotypes that I truly wish we could discard (and actually thought we had discarded, but a quick look at any toy shop clearly indicates I was wrong, at least here in the U.S.).

My default terms of endearment for children are sweetie, sweetheart, sunny. I also use the affectionate nickname Precious Witherspoon, which is incomprehensible to everyone else but was the actual name of one of DH's former students.

I don't like it all and it's also a bit vomit making when the word princess is used as a first name. I blame Katie Price for that one.