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?

I have never done this @Ccoffee217 and I honestly don't know anyone who does........

Don’t you mean your National Childbirth Trust group Original Poster?

Please tell me you don’t express this irritation to anyone in real life, they’ll think you’re well weird.

GAL (get a life)

@Lalliella I mentioned earlier that I’m not referring to acronyms 😂 but different, this is about children’s names.

Don’t you worry I don’t express it in real life, just on mumsnet 👍

A friend of mine writes her child's full initials instead of his name in messages and on social media but before you flame me for this... his name is Dominic but she calls him Dom. His initials are DMMW, so she may as well put his darn name

YABU - if you’ve got 2,3 kids it’s much easier than writing 3 individual names. Also, predictive text is an absolute knob with changing names so the initial is easier

Yes, it is some what irritating. Its just another lazy way of writing like FYI... I can't think of anymore because I don't use it.

People do it for exactly the same reason that you didn't type out National Childbirth Trust in your OP. HTH

@Noshowwithoutpunch

I've just realised that I do this. Despise anyone with a daughter with a name beginning with B that calls their DD B though ( or Bea/Bee). Pretentious pricks,

I call my daughter Bee but her name doesn't start with B, is that pretentious too?

Can you honestly type Elizabeth as quickly as E?

My phone auto fills DD’s name.

I see people use initials here. Seems to have come from when the school tweet about kids, they use the initial.

@malmi

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

brilliant 😆😆😆

I do this all the time. Otherwise it's Cost Centre 1, 2, 3 or 4.

I do this all the time in text messages and we all have different initials in the family so no confusion.
I will generally make the effort to write other people's kids names in full even if I have to double check the spellings!

I do sometimes say 'my oldest ds' or 'my youngest dd' at work rather than use their names. I don't honestly expect my colleagues to remember how old my kids are and their names, so it makes it a bit easier.

Get a life!

People do it to save time typing maybe? Does it matter?

However a Hugo shortened to H reminds me of that chap from Steps

I belong to an online "Mother's Group" we have been together since we were all pregnant and had babies in 2003 (so 18 years we have been together). There is one mother who uses initials when she writes about her kids. I also find it annoying. I feel like she doesnt want to say there name to us (like she is keeping it private) except that she didnt use to do that so we ALL know their names, so its weird. Maybe its just a short cut thing I guess but no one else in the group does it.

Hmm.. I do when it's just one child they're referring to but admittedly I do it myself when referring to both my DC together, ie S&E (not their real initials ).

To be honest, slightly on a tangent, before I opened this thread, I thought it was going to be: "To find it irritating when people refer to London as 'town'."

Now, that is annoying. Maybe I need to start my own thread

People who claim a name can’t be shortened have never been to wales. We shorten everything. Unless it’s a 1 syllable name and then we make it longer 😂

My son is a josh but we call him j all the time
If I’m messaging my mate about one of 3 dogs (hers,my sons and my mates dog) I type z,r or k
Never had an issue with it

It works better with some initials better than others my DDs BFF is a name starting with P which doesn't sound amazing. My DS is a G though and often gets called "G" (not by me).

My NCT friend does this often. It doesn't bother me though.

@owlbethere

People who claim a name can’t be shortened have never been to wales. We shorten everything. Unless it’s a 1 syllable name and then we make it longer 😂

Agree with this. Sometimes it's just shortened to a little noise that doesn't sound like anything.

I do it. My parents did it. Often the letter becomes a nickname in my family. I like nicknames. I associate them with being liked and cared about.

I do something worse, and I'm texts to DP refer to DS by the initial of our baby nick name for him. It is just easier. Especially when I'm at work and asking a quick question like can you put dinner on for G?

@SuperCaliFragalistic yes 😂😂

I refer to mine as No1 No2 & No3