To think that parents sound stupid when they use baby talk?

[Sallystyle]

I was out walking my dog and a mother stopped me so her nursery age child could look at my "woo woo" "Look at the cutey woo woo"

It's a dog not a bloody cutey woo woo!

I admit that I might be more easily annoyed today because I have an infection in my gum and didn't sleep.

[quesadilla]

YABU. None of your bloody business how people talk to their kids.

[pinkpudding]

my friend makes her baby talk like a ventriloquist doll. in a very annoying cutesy voice. i hate it. especially when i get sucked into a discussion

[Mrsrobertduvall]

We still call fire engine nee naas and my dcs are doing gcses.
And baa lambs.

[Sallystyle]

I have to laugh at it being none of my business. Of course it isn't, but since when has that stopped anyone being annoyed by something?

It's not like I asked her to stop or told her my opinion.

[nokidshere]

yabu - babies love baby goo goo stuff and young children love playing with silly words and sounds. It might have been a private little joke between them, or it might just be that she was feeling silly.. or any number of reasons.

Any speech to your child - correct or not - is a good thing.

[ReallyTired]

Its one thing to speak to your baby in motherese, but a totally different thing when they are old enough to walk and talk themselves.

I worry more about the parents who don't talk to their children though.

[quesadilla]

Fine. But it's hard to think of anything more private or harmless than the way people communicate with their kids. If you are going to post something so judgy on a topic this trivial you should be prepared that people may raise the off eyebrow.

[quesadilla]

Odd eyebrow even

[Poppet48]

I have an 18 MO who often gets mistaken as a 3 YO.

YABU.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I feel your pain, Smudging. Ds3 gets really narked if I call him my baby. But I don't see why I should stop, just because he is nearly 16!

[maddening]

I think it is meant to be something that we do naturally in response to babies - as they respond to higher pitch singy tones.

[KellyElly]

I use lots of weird/babyish words for things to my 3 year old DD - PJ's - 'jimmy jamsters', knickers - 'knicky knacky noos', nappy - 'nap nap', milk 'milkies', bed time 'night night time'...the list is endless. She likes/uses those words and it's just our little language. I'm sure this won't be still going on when she's 10 but at three or four it's fine IMO.

[Fakebook]

YAnBU. I do it in the vicinity of my home. I wouldn't dare do it outside my four walls, how embarrassing.

[Dannilion]

DM still calls windmills "yumm-bahs" when talking to me. I'm 23

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

The bottom line for me is that you do what works in your own family - you use words and tones of voice that the children respond to, and you use 'in jokes' too, and you shouldn't give a bugger if anyone else thinks you sound stupid - frankly it does them no harm, so why should they worry?