Tummy time, carpet time etc.

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Does anyone else find these terms irritating?

Other unrelated terms/phrases/words I find really annoying:

”The community”
”My journey”
”Mental health”
”Empowering/empower/empowered”

I’ve heard all of these this morning.

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@LaMarschallin I thought exactly the same about the “are you broken?” comment. I ignored it as I often find those that go on about “being kind” etc are the most unnecessarily over-the-top vicious.

@follyfoot37 do the responses surprise you as much as they do me?? No such thing as lighthearted threads?

Fur baby and “doggles”
”a good clean”
”speaking her truth”
”she ate that up!” Or “she ate” - (meaning to look good )
”girl boss!” - why not just boss?

Absolutely I had to google 'tummy time', for God's sake baby's have done this since time immemorial, why does it now need a name? I do think that there are a lot of people making a lot of money from scaring parents, they have to be doing the current fad otherwise they're bad parents.

I think a lot of people get fed up with the term 'mental health' being used to cover relatively mild things like being fed up, a bit upset no-one these days is every totally pissed off, they are 'anxious' and need a GP appointment.

Oh I've been needing a thread like this.

"being my authentic self"

Seems to be the phrase of the day and it's fucking horrible.

I get it op, it’s the cutsie american-esque catch phrases you don’t like. I can’t bare play date but it’s so widely used now.

I did read your post properly. You said that you don’t like the term “mental health” because it’s used to describe mental health in exactly the same way that “blood pressure” is used to describe blood pressure. If you have no issue with the term “blood pressure” then why have an issue with “mental health”?

@FourBoysAndAFeline yes, awful!

I do agree with stuff like “tummy time” it’s cringe.

you must be deliberately twisting it then because the poster was quite clear what they meant

What did they mean? Genuinely. They said they don’t like the phrase “mental health” and then said it’s because everyone has it… and then said everyone has blood pressure… but they have no issue with the phrase “blood pressure”… so, why do they supposedly have a problem with the phrase “mental health”? Frankly, I haven’t the foggiest what point they were trying to make.

Secondly, you can say “time on his tummy” or “time on his front”.

So you have no problem with 'time on his tummy' but 'tummy time' gives you the rage. Frankly that's weird. Should we also say 'Time when you're having dinner' instead of 'dinner time' and 'time when you go to bed' instead of 'bedtime'?

And what on earth is wrong with 'Community'? It's just a completely normal word.

I am a therapist and spend a lot of time discussing mental health. I have literally never heard anyone say this in almost 20 years. Describing their mental health, yes, but this, seriously, not once.

Hmm, but there is more than one way to experience? You can experience by observing, like it happened to your sister or best friend etc. Or there is your lived experience, actually it was you it happened to.

@Fairislefandango ”Tummy time” is annoying to me. The adding of “time” irritates me because it makes it sound like a formal activity rather than just a baby being on their front.
I’m not sure why some posters are saying “should we say x instead of y now?” as if I am here to grant you permission to speak as you wish.

Can people please understand: my point was only that I feel irritated by these words/phrases and I wondered if anyone felt the same about these particular ones or others

@Snugglemonkey hmm I’m not sure that’s true. For example, you don’t experience giving birth by observing it or listening to someone else speaking about it. All experience is lived experience as we are alive.

The adding of “time” irritates me because it makes it sound like a formal activity rather than just a baby being on their front.
But it is a specific activity. One that I didn't bother with much but wouldn't ever had thought to do at all if I hadn't heard it mentioned as a specific thing to do for a reasonable amount of time. My children were both late to roll, they never spent any time on their fronts under their own volition and it is something I knew I was meant to specifically do to encourage muscle development.

Non alcoholic wine is my least favourite words to hear.

@DappledThings you make a good argument. I am still irritated by it though. The alliteration, the way it sounds a bit like Tommee Tippee and Tumble Tots

@CrackingCrackling 😂

Anything 'journey' can fuck off.

"Lived experience" is another one that irritates me very much.

Ah well if you're getting onto brand names then Ickle Bubba can get right in the bin.

Also Quinny but that's only because my brain always sees it as a mixture of quim and cunny and can't compute why you'd want to walk around pushing a buggy with what looks like a rude medieval word for female anatomy on it. This is admittedly pretty niche.

Along the same lines as tummy time - contact naps. Drives me crazy! Just say the baby likes to held to nap, it doesn't need some wanky name. Never really heard it much when I had babies 4 years ago, now it seems to be a standard term and I hear it all the time.

It's not difficult; the OP raised the point about overused, hakneyed phrases that people are bandying about.
Saying 'I have MH' is meaningless, as is 'I have blood pressue'. We all have mh and bp. Each is true, but contaxt or descriptorscare required. However, very few people use the latter, whereas the world and his aunty are over-using 'mh' and expecting everyone to understand that their mh (which everyone has) is an issue
No- one is just fed-up or a bit down. Normaal emotions are being turned into drama's. Like men never having a col, always flu