To find it inappropriate to describe your children in this way?

[Snoopy104]

A friend of mine (well, more of an acquaintance) has 2 young children. Her partner is very active on social media and frequently posts pictures of them, but he always captions them with swear words.
It's seemingly meant in an endearing way, however it just feels uncomfortable. He posted a picture of their 3 year old daughter and wrote 'Happy birthday to this cheeky little bitch!'

And called their son 'A little shitbag'.
Like he uses words like that about his children publicly, nobody seems to comment about it on the posts. It just seems very odd to me, or am I overreacting?

Up to them what they do

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It's not what I'd do.

I do however have a friend whose dad used to call her 'little shit' to her face, affectionately. She adored him, they had a wonderful relationship and she was devastated when he died (when she was in her thirties).

My man childs family and also himself are fond of affectionately calling all the young girls in the family "lil bitches/bitch" I fucking hate it.

Calling him "a little shit bag" sounds better somehow than saying "happy birthday to this cheeky little bitch" which is just very strange...

Not unreasonable. I knew someone recently who kept calling his kids crotch goblins and - even worse - cum trophies.

Trying to be funny, I suppose but it's just gross.

Yeah it’s odd. I wouldn’t like to be called a bitch as an adult, I certainly would not consider calling a child one.

Calling your daughter a bitch is awful 😏

If you get told you're a shitbag often enough, children often become shitbags because that's what they believe themselves to be.
Stupid move imo.
When my kids say or do something that gets praise, you can see how proud they are if told. I can't imagine how badly it affects your self belief if you're constantly told something negative. Poor kids.

Dreadful. Dont know or have anything to do with anyone like this thankfully

Eugh they sound awful, I couldn’t associate with people that did this. I’ve heard that some people also call their kids “sexy” equally weird and horrible.

Horrendous

I ended a friendship with someone who called their newborn a ‘fat little bitch’.

Gross behaviour.

I hate it. There is a car parked near us with a bumper sticker that says "little shits on board" and I think it is horrible. Not funny at all

I wouldn’t allow my DD (or DS if I had one) to be within 100 yards of that creep.

It’s really uncomfortable because it reflects boundary crossing in a family. Pushing boundaries using swear words about little kids. It reeks of problematic ways of relating.

Just awful

Horrid. They would be increasingly distant acquaintances of mine.

It is gross.

If they were acquaintances, then I would drop them of SM. I think it’s horrible describing kids like that.

I know someone who referred to her young daughter as a sexy little bitch, just found it really weird. The bitch part is more common that I though going by this thread but the sexy bit is frankly bizarre isn’t it?

They're both horrible, but bitch is absolutely awful.

Some folk will say scroll on by or unfollow/block, and while that's definitely an option, I do find it really sad that people would refer to their children in that way. Constantly posting their lives online is bad enough tbh.

I wouldn’t do it personally but I don’t find it any less disturbing than crotch goblins, bean, bear or any of those names

Calling a little girl a bitch is absolutely horrible, even if said in jest.

I knew a family that referred to their daughters as the little bitches. 3 year old walks into the room. 'whadda you want bitch?'I hated it, it sounds so wrong.