That princess and angel literally make me cringe?

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Am expecting a little girl soon- however she is already being referred to as princess or angel. I have said to DH not to use the word angel I hate it and said I don't like princess either he still wants to use it.
I don't know where this hated comes from but whenever anyone uses the words to describe the baby it drives me mad- it would be Ott to tell people not to use it though- I'm gonna have to suck it up aren't I?
Really hope once she has a name I won't have to hear either again

Nope, I'm with you OP

Angels are blokes and princesses are soppy ( unless they're Xenia, and she'd have been even more kickarse if she wasn't a princess - Warrior Queen sounds way more impressive )

We call our two Itchy and Scratchy, or Thing1 and Thing2 ...

I used to call my boys 'angel' (among other things) when they were little. Have no idea why and I used to make myself cringe sometimes as it's not a term I'd normally use. It just seemed to pop out though! We all got used to it - and it was just a term of endearment, after all.

You need to watch the history channels more often, you would find out how unsoppy Princess, were (or the cross cultural equivalent).

I'm not keen either which is odd as I'm no feminist and do have a fondness for the colour pink and all things sparkly even though I'm 38.

My pfb is due is 6 weeks and is a girl but there will be no 'princess on board' sign in the back windown of the car.

Ds is interchangeably Sweetie Pops, Pumpkin Pie, Horror Head and Baby Monster.

All said with affection.

But a colleague took me aside last week and said eh really hated me calling him 'Baby Monster' as in 'Sorry, got to dash, have to pick up the Baby Monster' as she thought it was awful. It honestly is said with lots and lots of love.

Oh, and sometimes- if there are - um - smells - emerging then he is 'all smoke and no fire' if he does not need the nappy changed.

As a child my mum called me "pudding" when feeling affectionate and "madam" when I was being a pain. I sometimes refer to my DDs as "madam" and then try to stop myself as I hated it.

Birds We live on the history channel! But I'm afraid Bloody Mary and Liz heart-and-stomach-of-a-concrete-elephant et al get rather trumped by the whole Disney Princess/non more pink thing you see all over the shop ...

Actually, I have boys, my brother has boys, the only female in the whole clan is DH's niece who was princessed within an inch of her life by all his rellies and has grown up to be gorgous, tough and brighter than the rest of us put together so I think I'll shut up now.

I call mine all kinds of terms of endearment, angel, sweetie, my best girl (x2), who cares?

I think if you call your children 'hilarious' rude names when they are babies, you have to make sure you drop it sharpish when they understand what it means. I was called a nickname that related to a negative aspect of my personality as a child, and I still remember it now!

I was told off by a friend yesterday for calling my six week old daughter Grotbags when she cried, so I must be mean.

It also makes me cringe and want to scream when my mother calls her 'Grandma's gorgeous girlie' repeatedly. Eugh!! It's the term girlie that is the worst part...

My son's nn is fishface. It would have been fishface even if he had been a girl.

My bots are "angel" sometimes too - not a gender specific word

Hate prince and princess sonoverall yanbu

All get called stinky too!

Ds and dd1 are thing one/thing two, or the boy/the girl, dd2 is trumpy bum or lilypie.

Dp calls the girls princess I inwardly groan every time.

Well, DD is sometimes Petal and sometimes Stinky. Usually Stinkerbell. But then I was Scroggly or Sprog.

She frequently stinks, btw. She is 10m. But i expect to still call her Stinkerbell (affectionately) for the rest of my life!

YANBU - I hate the 'princess' tag and all it connotes!

I find princess especially cringe-worthily fake and immature.
Probably doesn't help that ExP doesn't bother to contact about DD for weeks at a time but if i bump into him in public while he's with company "Look it's my little princess, isn't she cute" Or some similar shit involving "Princess" is usually his first sentence. Yeuch!

My DDs name means princess and Princess is her prefered form of address. Her middle name means Battle maiden though, so she is not some prissy princess but a Warrior Princess.

My three are collectively known as the spawns. The older two will answer to this quite happily. The youngest will learn:o

I like that LMF. My DS gets called Chicken Legs or Chicken Licken, nothing like the 'Prince' he demands.

Another poopy pants DD here!

YANBU, but princess/angel not nearly as bad as when people tell their children they're sexy

I agree Bubblegum, the sexualisation of children, even in a jokey way is not acceptable!

neveronamonday those car things aren't to excuse bad driving, it's so people know if to look for a baby or not if there's an accident. Quite sensible really.

But if they say "princess" on then it is just vomitous