To find it irritating when people refer to their child as “letter” only?

[Ccoffee217]

Am I the only one that finds this irritating?

So if my child was called Henry I’d refer to him in messages as “H”. I don’t see the point in shortening.. my whole NCT group does it, I find it bizarre when the name won’t take long to write!? Just me?

My mum still calls me Big A sometimes. I'm an A, and when I was very small I spotted that a telegraph pole near our house looked like a big A (it has a diagonal support and a cross bar) and shouted Big A! Big A! Every time we went past. I'm 49 and still get called Big A.

I do this in all my conversations but it’s just because I get so fed up of typing my kids names 45 million times 😬🙄
Also because some of my friends have those super annoying ‘unique’ names no one except their parents will ever remember how to spell!

Yes! I don't know why it annoys me but it does.

*friends kids

Is it just when they’re texting/WhatsApping? I think I’d be fine with that because it is quicker than typing out a full name especially you are as shit at typing as me However if it’s when they’re speaking “Oh H won’t eat white bread!” I would considered that a bit wanky and self absorbed. But I am quite judgey 😁

Haha this (irrationally) annoys me too. No idea why. I just really don't like it! At first I saw it on social media and thought maybe it was a privacy thing. I just think I love DD's name too much to shorten it to just one letter!

Yabu
Depends on how much time I've got when texting . Far quicker to type initials than dork out the whole names, which sometimes get autocorrected - one of my friends DD is Grace - often directs to Grave so we all prefer to type G when typing list of names!

Presumably they are friends and you know their children's names and everyone uses their names when talking.

I don’t like it, that might be partly because it doesn’t work with one of my kid’s initial!

Mine are numbered too. I figure most colleagues don't know their names so it's easier to refer to them by number.

Just worked out I'm the office weirdo.

It doesn't bother me at all.

However, threads on here that have an opening post containing anything along the lines of "let's call them E, K and S" gets closed down immediately.

Don't find it annoying at all it protects my sons identity as he is adopted. Sorry so sorry its so irritating to you. You mustn't haveamy actual things worry about.

I'm coming back to this thread to (shamefully) admit that the one time I heard this done "live" / in person to a child, I did find it odd and it stuck with me. It seemed a bit affected - "B, would you like a breadstick?" - when saying "Bee" and saying "Ben" take the same amount of time.

Don't find it annoying at all it protects my sons identity as he is adopted. Sorry so sorry its so irritating to you. You mustn't haveamy actual things worry about.

The OP seems to mean on Whatsapp/text when communicating with people she and her child already knows, so ID protection doesn't really factor into it.

Blimey, I do this all the time, for my DC & DH, as well as my DS(is) and DN(eices and nephews)

@malmi

"NCT"? Do you mean the National Childbirth Trust?

@romdowa

It would cause utter confusion in my family. Both me and my sibling have the same first initial 🤣🤣🤣 bit of a weird thing to do though. You should suggest the mumsnet way, dc1, 2 and 3 😁

Same with my family. DH and I have the same first initials as DSis and BIL. To add to the confusion, DSIL and I have the same first and last name…

It’s interesting as a few people have mentioned it’s so much quicker to type the initial than the child’s name, but it is really any quicker? Maybe half a second if you’re a fairly quick typer on your phone.

I think I agree on it being impersonal, it’s a child’s name why not use their name?

I do it. Not verbally but in messages. My son’s name is 8 letters long, it definitely does take longer to type.

Mind you I think some people do feel similarly to you because a friend recently said to me ‘next time give your child a name you can be arsed to type’ but then he gave his son an actual dog’s name (like Rover - not actually Rover but that level of dog name) so I’m not taking any shit about names from him.

I do this all the time with family and friends, partly because one of my DD's nicknames is "Hiffer" as in "h for her first name", which she shouted as a toddler whenever she saw a letter H. It's a bit weird to type out, and erm, prone to unfortunate autocorrect. So H = Hiffer.

Yup I absolutely hate it, and yes, I am irritated easily.

One of my DC's names begins with an I (a capital i) so it can either look like a lower case L or look like I'm typing about myself so I don't do it!

I do this all the time without thinking. I can't imagine why anybody would be in the slightest bit bothered by it, fucking hell.

I also find it irritating and don’t even know why!

My son is O. I call him O, my husband sometimes does, and people who love him do too. My best friend calls him O, and I love it - I guess I see it as a sign of affection.