To be nauseated by parents calling their children 'princes' and 'princesses'?

[sneezecakesmum]

Excuse me if its been done to death....probably has as its a puke inducing term and I can't be the only revolted individual???

Oo-er! My DD is sweet-pea, sweetie, beautiful, short-arse, the baby, princess, sweetheart...sometimes she even gets her name!
Didn't really think it bothered anyone else, what I call my child.
You live and learn

I sometimes call dd my little princessy wincess baby gaga goo goo snuggle bum whilst squeezing her and kissing her cheek over and over again.

Go on, puke. I kind of want you to.

I also call my daughter princess sometimes, along with 'sweetie'. And I have also called both my sons 'little man'. Happy to know it makes some Mumsnetters nauseous. Go and have a nice big puke.

LeQueen you are hideously nauseating and very syrupy.

I call DS Munch, short for munchkin. I started calling him that because he walked young and looked like a munchkin from the Wizard of Oz.

He's 7 now and still answers to it

hope it's not as vom producing as prince

still going to call him it though!

I couldn't give two shiney shites what endearments parents use for their children. I'm a fan of pet and sweetheart, which I know turns some people [shrugs].

I have 3dds and I think my fil sometimes refers to them as his princesses, and I know when my husband picks up one of the girls when they hurt themselves (they're very dramatic, lots of faux falls ) and says "Come here to me sweetheart" I think "there you go, that's why I married you"

I think calling girls princess is just as damaging in a different way as calling them little bitch.

rhondajean what complete bullshit.

I call my DD "princess". I also call her "pickle" and "trouble." Her favourite colour is dark blue and to get her in a dress I would have to tranquilise her. It's a word, no more.

Rhino - I've not meant anyone else who uses "flowerpot" as a term of endearment. I was starting to think I had remembered it wrong from my childhood. Delighted to hear someone else uses it.

Bloody hell,what's wrong with sweetie?!
I'm going to call my kids shitface from now on,at least I know where I stand with that!

rhondajean....seriously?? that's the biggest heap of turd I've ever heard

Please expand on your silly theory

depends what you want, I know the kind of women I want my daughters to be, and princess don't come close.

It's a teeny bit nauseating, although DS2 loves to dress as a princess when he visits his girl cousins. DS1 is usually disgusted and tells me 'but he's a boy'.

Well, I don't want my DD to be a pickle when she grows up either, lucky it's just a word

Daughters have a habit of becoming the kind of women they want to be regardless of what their parents want. Indeed the more the parents wish a type upon them the greater the chance of rebellion.

Of couse this means my little sugar plum fairy and my bunnies will not grow up to be big sugar plum fairies or big bunnies (alas)

YANBU, it is nauseating.

Regardless of whether you think it is harmless or not, it is still very sickly-sweet and irritating.

I sometimes call my baby ds little prince but tbh I call them all so many different terms of endearment/nicknames, im happy to call them anything as long as its cute sounding and nice although we do have some random made up ones too. Don't think i have ever called him that in public though as i tend to use their normal names more then, and just keep most of the nicknames or silly names for at home.
Yabu to have a problem with it really. yanbu to not like it and don't use those words yourself but people are not doing any harm.
Comments saying calling a child princess is just as damaging as calling them a bitch is just ridiculous!

Why would she hide her disabled son away and be ashamed? You admire her for not doing that?

Way to ignore all the evidence about the impact of nurture in early years!

I blame Disney for the bastardisation of the princess concept. That might be a whole new thread though

Never heard of madonna / whore stereotyping you lot?

Prince somehow does not carry the same connotations...