Horrid, cringey things people say

[SmidgenofaPigeon]

I nanny for a family that call dinner ‘sup sups’

It makes me feel ill. I’ve tried and tried to get the kids to stoppit and almost succeeded but due to lockdown, their mum is at home constantly and feeding them these twee little sayings as apparently it’ll be ‘a shame when they grow up and don’t say them anymore’

Sup sups is the absolute worst but we also have ‘beddiebyes’ and ‘pop pops’ (I can’t even write what that one means because Its nauseating but it’s a bodily function)

The children are 6, 9 and 11, not babies.

It sounds dramatic but the thought of hearing these stupid phrases again tomorrow for another weeks is spoiling my Sunday

Anyone got any to add to make me feel better?

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Ok note taken about ‘horrid’

Seriously though, I’m ‘only the nanny’ but if a 9 year old is asking me ‘what’s for sup sups?’ I am ALWAYS going to say ‘do you mean what’s for dinner?’

Because part of my job is creating well rounded individuals and not ones that will speak in baby-tongue for the rest of their lives...

Ummm no this is not part of your job . Your job is to carry out the instructions the parents are paying you for . You think too highly of your role/purpose I think .

Picky bits / nibbly bits.

Felt a bit faint just typing it.

So many.

Cuppa.
Brew.
Bubbles.
Fizz.
Holibobs.
Fam.
Famalam.
Famalamadingdong.
Sis.
Bro.
Bruv.
Schnugs.
L’ickle.
Ickle.
W’ickle.
Widdle (in place of little).
Mummy’s little princess/prince
Poopies.
Widdle (in place of urinate).
Poopoos.
Poopsy.
Foofoo.
Winky.

I could go on but I think I’ve made my point.

I like using the word horrid , it’s a great word
I can’t stand the word hubby
Adults calling their parents mummy or daddy is just odd in my book , I’m expecting them to add ‘ need bitty’ after it

Tellybox, yes that's you Zoe Ball.

My nan used to call their dog by shouting: "Lad lad (his name was Laddie) come on din dins!"

It's the only time I've heard anyone use din dins and it was decades ago.

Also LOL at the people trying to ‘put the mere nanny in her place’... 🙄

I think a lot of you would hate DH family. They are rather plummy and if you overheard the chat when everyone is home for christmas etc you would barely understand a word. Everyone has a silly nickname and there are shortened/silly words for everything. It's a sort of form of family affection.

I know someone who asks her toddler if they'd like 'milchy' instead of milk. The inside of my mouth bleeds when she says it.

@HarrietSchulenberg

My cousin was brought up by our grandparents. He was 17 when I heard him utter the words, "Nan, what's for sup-sups?". I was about 14 and it left me open mouthed. Mind you, I found out much later that she was still bathing him at that age so I guess there was more to be surprised about than I knew.

Bathing him at 17

It's a cringey term, but I wouldn't actively try to stop the kids from using it in their own home if their mum prefers it. They have no doubt already learned that other children don't call it that, and may laugh at them if they do so in school/ other public settings..

When I was a child, we had relatives whom I will call Tommy and Sarah, and they always wanted me to call them Tommy-tommy and Sarah-sarah. Looking back now, that seems a bit cringey!

@NormanStangerson your list is marvellous ! I’m seriously impressed 👍😀

God that’s annoying. Especially when the parents constantly say it. You would just want to shout it’s bloody dinner lol I have a couple, my best life is one, holidaybobs, hubby, making memories, adults says only so many sleeps to go. Your adults stop speaking like children. I’m getting crabit as I get older haha 😆

I used to be a nanny. Moo moo was milk. Found myself saying it myself one day in tesco

It can only ever be justified if you're ancient....

I hate it when people say 'wanna bot-bot' when asking if a baby wants formula

My mum used to call birds dicky birds or dik dik birdies which stopped when we were little but just remembered now lol 😆

I love these guys and am a very good nanny.

Very good nanny's don't slag their employers off or belittle their parenting on mumsnet.
You literally can't do/be both.

When people say ‘irregardless’. Aargh!!!!!!!

Oh ... and 'change your bum' for nappy change 😵

NormanStangerson
That’s a good list and I agree with everyone of them lol

@Mylovelyhorsee

I can’t stand hearing twee versions of grandparents names especially when the grandkids are tweens. For example, gong gong for grandad or some other made up nonsense.

My daughters had a very silly name for their beloved grandmother and I can still remember the look on the eldest's face around age 11 when one of her snotty little friends told her it was 'embarrassing'. It still breaks my heart a little bit to think about it.

"Horrid" is twee

[quote SimplyMarvellousDarrrrrrling]@NormanStangerson your list is marvellous ! I’m seriously impressed 👍😀[/quote]

I’ve millions more but I didn’t like to hog an entire page of the thread with my one post.

'Love you lots like jellitots'

Lots of you don’t understand what nannies are about if you think we don’t have influence over the children. Not all roles are the same obviously but in 11 years of doing it and working in Russia, Switzerland, Spain and the U.K. I’ve never been simply ‘a paid caregiver’. There really is a lot more to it than that.

@cuppycakey

Salady Bits or Picky Bits makes me feel really ill.

Ex Mil used to point and say "Ooh! Track Track" if she saw a tractor, even though nobody present was under 30.

This made me laugh a lot 😆 Mum of 4 in my mid 50s and I reckon I’m guilty of this. I’ll be pointing out fire engines and “soothe rocking” supermarket trollies to my dying day.

Ohh and as an aside, I still think of the tumble dryer as Tumby the Dryer (first referred to as such to toddlers in the 90s) and am completely unrepentant about it 🤣

I'm not a fan of shortened anything as a rule but mainly because I just sound like a knob when I try.

That said when the DC were smaller and (so I thought ) in the comfort of my own home I did to my shame use things like pickle and peanut to refer to DC.

Until sleep deprivation got to me and I called my boss pickle , then a day later forgot where I was and in the sing song voice you only ever risk using to your toddler DC asked a colleague if they needed a wee wee before we left to drive to a meeting. Sheer force of habit followed by profuse apologies , red faced while they were laughing their ass off at me .

Cut out the cutesy speak a bit sharp. except for pickle and peanut because screw that Im just more careful around adults now

I reckon that being a parent is far more likely to cause you to use cute speak in the world than having grown up with it. Exdh once accidentally started a whole room full of security guards humming the Fireman Sam theme tune because he started it under his breath and every father in there absent mindedly joined in .