Tiny human

[ThisIsNotARealAvo]

Am I the only one to find it really twee and annoying when people talk about tiny humans. Usually ones they've created.

"I can't believe I made this tiny human" "DH and I often stare at the humans we have created in disbelief" "Remember you are the mother of an actual human"

I don't know why this is annoying me so much, I think because I'm seeing it a lot atm and it just sounds so silly.

[SoupDragon]

I remember looking at my PFB's hand and thinking about all the "stuff" under the skin and thinking "Fuck! How did I manage to make an actual human?"

[PutyourtoponTrevor]

None of this is as bad as describing a toddler as sexy little man...I've seen that quite a lot 🤮🤬

[NearlyGranny]

Friend of mine reported being so zonked during labour that she basically lost track of where and who she was and what was going on, so when DD finally emerged all she could muster was a shocked "It's a baby!"

[ThePolishWombat]

If I’m trying to get the DC’s attention from another room and they aren’t responding to their names, I tend to bellow “SMAAAAALLLL HUMAAAANNNSSSSS!!” and they respond

[AngelsOnHigh]

My pet hate is look at my mini me.
Although I can't really throw stones. When I ask DD about hr DC I say
"Where are all the munchkins". or "what are the two little free range girls doing?

I know, I know, pretty pathetic.

[Youmeandthesea]

Having lived in America for a year now, I think the use of twee language is in a much worse state than the UK. IMO the worst are the cringeworthy matching mum and daughter outfits and massive bows on poor little babies heads. Children are often referred to as "my minis", they seem like fashion accessories a lot of the time. Tiny human and little man are used a lot also. But my pet peeve when a parent posts a picture of their child, and the caption reads something like "guess who just tried solids for the first time" or "someone just tried solids for the first time". Um golly I wonder who it is??!!!

On a side note, I have picked up the habit of calling my children "kids" sometimes, and my mum can't stand it, she will only say children.

[Symptomless]

I'm pretty sure that I used to say 'tiny human ' when my first dc was born. It just somehow blew my mind that there was this new little human being on earth because of me and dh.

[Casander]

Me and DH refer to them as big child and small child, ie "have you heard from the big child today?" only to each other though!

Although I read these posts and find I use a few of the phrases MN seem to collectively find terrible and irritating so it's no wonder I have no friends not hun though

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

It’s hideous - along with ‘little man’ and ‘my little family’. But worst of all are the people who think it’s funny to post pictures from the perspective of their cat with captions like ‘My human is behaving very oddly today’. Grow a brain!

[Actionhasmagic]

i think social media makes people talk in certain phrases. One mum sees another post about her tiny human, she does the same. It spreads more and more and becomes part of language. My worst one is ‘chuffed’

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

i think social media makes people talk in certain phrases.

‘Methinks’ is another one. No one has said it in real life since 1642.

[Elliewellie80]

Oh my God I hate "making memories" and "we're pregnant".

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

Sounds v weird to me.
What's wrong with 'tiny little person' - if you have to say any such thing about a new baby. After all, nobody's going to think you're talking about a tiny little elephant or gorilla.

[Anothernotherone]

I hate "little man" (though for some reason "wee woman" which one of my antenatal group used to say, is strangely delightful - partly because she used woman not lady I think - "little lady" is awful).

However the time tiny human seems absolutely and completely appropriate is for very early toddlers. 8 or 9 or 10 month olds haring about on two legs not four crawling. Especially if they only have two or so teeth and very little hair. Bipedal babies.

Those are tiny humans. One of my 3 walked confidently and well at 9 months and was also a little round, toothless, bald thing at that age, it was so sweetly silly to see her walking and people doing a double take because she only looked about 7 months old. Walking babies are so delightfully incongruous, I absolutely love to see a teeny toddler who looks as though they're barely old enough to be on solids, looking every bit a baby except they're walking about!


They are cutest things, vastly more amusing and more "human" than newborns, and that's when I think - look, a tiny human

[burritofan]

Little man is awful, little madam is even worse, can't get my knickers in a twist over tiny human – I mean, that's just what they are and it does freak my nut out to this day that a human being was wandering around inside me and is now rolling around in the world, it's bonkers and great – though I don't say it. I usually say "tiny idiot" (in an affectionate way)

[Bezalelle]

"Littles" is pretty bad as well.

Likewise cringey hashtags such as #myworld

Ugh.

[HMArsey]

Oh yes, there's something inexplicably lovely about wee woman.

[Zaphodsotherhead]

A job can have roles within it though. I have a specific 'job title', but my role within that job is different.

I just used to call my children 'you lot' or 'the guys'.

[Yabbers]

One dr on Grey's anatomy used to say it in nearly every episode and it drove me mad!! I keep hearing it in real life now too.

Not a fan of it being used in the twee way it is, but when Arizona said it, it had a different meaning. It was about how they were seen and treated by medics. In my experience, many in NNICU do sometimes forget the humanity of preemies.

[dollydaydream114]

I also find it a bit grating.

I think what I actually find annoying isn't so much the phrase itself but that people who use it always seem to somehow give the impression that they believe they are being original rather than copying something they've seen someone else say on Facebook.

The thing I actually find most irritating of all - and I really don't know why; I fully accept it's my own problem and nobody else's - is when people refer to people in picture captions as 'this one'. Eg, a pic of them in a restaurant and the caption 'Out for dinner and cocktails with this one'.

[Ponoka7]

@TheMustressMhor
"It's a fucking JOB. Roles are things actors have."

No, ypu have a job, which has a title. But your role is what you do, which usually isn't relected in your title.

Role has more than one definition, you are using it wrong, not other people.

[Elliewellie80]

I also hate it when people use 'little' to describe something they've done, as in "We had a lovely little day at the zoo". I don't know why I hate it, it just sounds so twee.

[NameChange84]

I don't have kids but I like the phrase. It reflects the awe involved in bringing another person into the world better than child or baby does. They convey different sentiments to me...wonder, amazement.

[SamStephens]

Eh I have tiny humans and if someone asks me how my weekend was I usually say “kept the tiny humans alive so that’s a win for us”! Not something I can be arsed getting worked up over to be honest.

[dontgobaconmyheart]

Agree this is mostly a social media thing, it seems like everyone has started saying they area 'fierce' 'mama' or calling the person they previously called mum, mama or mama bear or something equally awful. Just as bad area 'famalam' 'holibobs' 'this one' 'the boy' and anyone who feels the need to communicate that their baby is a 'flirt' or was 'flirting with the waitresses (or whomever) today' with insinuated accompaniments that he or she will grow up to be a 'heartbreaker'- as though grown men flirting with waitresses is anything other than vile.

It just seems like people box ticking to fit in on social media, instagram is awful for it!