Do you say 'bye byes' or 'nigh nighs'?

[Pixienott0005]

When referring to a baby going to sleep, which do you say.

[Stratter5]

Good night
sleep tight
Don't let the bedbugs bite
If they do use dynamite
One red, one blue
All the rest is chicken poo

Don't ask, I don't know. It kind of evolved.

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

I do.
DCs, friends, dogs...

[AugustaFinkNottle]

Neither. They would make me cringe. It's "Night Night" or "Goodnight".

[WorraLiberty]

Actually now mine are teenagers

"Feck off to bed", tends to feature heavily...

[EponasWildDaughter]

OK do you mean what do you call bed time OP? Or what do you say as you leave them?

Here we call it bed time/nap time.

And as i leave her at night i say night night lamby, see you in the mornin' :)

[Dumbledoresgirl]

I do get the point of real words, and generally speaking didn't use euphenisms, but I would say something like 'time for beddy byes' (a favourite of my mother's when we were young) sometimes. Not recently - my children are all teenagers now.

The hoiking of bosoms here is quite funny. Do you not have any pet words? I still sometimes go into my teenager's rooms in the morning and say 'wakey wakey'. I might refer to a brolly or a cardie. And, just to cause full scale hilarity, I don't mind admitting to using puss or pussy for a cat. I don't see how these are different to the words OP mentioned. And none of my children had difficulty expressing themselves in school - quite the opposite in fact.

[EponasWildDaughter]

Ah worra, the teens/20s - yes, more often than not it's ''aren't you going out or something .... ?''

[Drinksforeveryone]

Good night.

See you in the morning.

I always spoke to my DS as if he was an adult. No baby talk here. Seems to have worked out well.

[twirlypoo]

Night night, God bless, I love you.....

Followed by about 2 hours of "it's sleep time, go back to bed.... Shut your eyes.... It's time for sleep.... Just goto fucking sleep already!!!!!"

(The last part is said in my head usually no one need call social services!)

[escapedfrommordor]

Bleurgh. "Night night, love you" is fine. None of this "tatty buhbye nighty nigh nigh wuvvy luvvu have your bok bok and banky" vom.

[Oysterbabe]

Sleepy time Ratbag.
It feels natural to use slight baby language and a silly tone when talking to my 4 month old.

[LittleNelle]

People talking to their babies/children as if they were adults always comes across as weird.

I say going to bed/bedtime when referring going to sleep and actually say 'night night' when putting them to bed.

[Wanderingwondering]

Usually night night but occasionally 'bu byes' creeps in.

[Oldraver]

I usually say night, night. Growing up it was na-night

If it's the cat it's sleepy pies

[DerelictMyBalls]

DH and I refer to DS having 'gone up peep-eye'.

No idea where that came from

[TimeToMuskUp]

"Time for Bedfordshire" here. No idea where it came from.

I don't think we've ever used baby words as such, both DCs shout "I love you, I like you, see you later alligator, in a while crocodile" as you leave their rooms. Again, no idea where it comes from.

[BrandNewAndImproved]

I say night sweet dreams. If they try and talk after that I say goodnight firmly.

[Ivegotyourgoat]

I just say goodnight, sleep tight, love you.

[WeAllHaveWings]

Night Night Boo, Love You to which ds(12) still replies love you too mum, night night and it absolutely melts my heart every night.

boo is an at home only nickname used by dh and I from the TV series Boo! years ago.

wonder how many more years (or months) I have of him still being as sweet before the teenage years kick in and it changes to a grunt instead.

[Birdsgottafly]

I can remember using Bo-bo's and Nigh-Nights. I still use Nigh-Nights to my younger cat. He comes over pretending to want to curl up with my elder cat, but starts menacing. So I tell him 'No, it's Nigh-Nights time, or go away'.

My children are all Adults and sometimes as I'm going to bed they try to make demands and I leave the room declaring 'It's Nigh-Nights time for me'.

"Time for Bedfordshire", I say "up the stairs to Bedfordshire", my Nan, born 1910, used to say it.

[Pinkheart5915]

Night night baby

[unpackyoursuitcase]

Nos da. Love you. Sweet dreams. See you in the morning. Xx

[KaraokeQueenOfTheNorth]

We use Bedfordshire here too sometimes. Generally its night night, love you! When they were babies I would put them in their cot and say, night night, sleepy time!

Often now we have "ugh, what NOW?!" As the 5yr old or 8 yr old appear at the top of the stairs AGAIN, hours after they should be asleep...

[seagreengirl]

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire

[BernardsarenotalwaysSaints]

Yes! Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire or up Sheep Street to Blankety Lane are what my Grandad always used to say to me when I was little.

Mine get a "night night, love you, see you in the morning" as I'm walking out the door.