to looooooooathe babytalk?

[Babymumma]

Specificaly from mil!! She has a special voice she uses just for ds and a whole other language which includes: din-dins, tweety birdies, milky and bot-bot! grrrr, it's dinner, bird, milk and bottle. We don't use babytalk as I find it patronising and wangt him to learn to speak correctly. He has recently started to say "Ba" to our cat Bonnie which is really sweet but when mil is here she will repeatedly and very loudly say "Joseph where's Ba?Ba?Ba?Ba?". I'm sure he will find his own way of pronouncing words which is fine but if you repeat his version back to him he wont learn the correct pronounciation will he? AIBU?

When it feels right.There are no rules.

oh moondog I think that is lovely, I think that you have summed up my philosophy of bring up kids,

brought a tear to my eye

When you do babytalk babies talk right back at you -even tiny weeny ones. YOu do that wide eyes, wide mouth thing and go 'OH! you ARE a bootiful baby! Yes oo are! A bootiful baby!' and they open their mouths and wave their arms and legs in time with your words. I think that's all the 'proof' you need of its value.
As for being annoyed that a grandmother calls her granddaughter 'poppet' - gawd, get a grip!

My older sister did the 'no baby talk' rule with her kids 30 odd years ago. I remember as a teenaged babysitter being told off for saying moo cow and woof woof rather than cow and dog!

I know there are lots of other factors here, but her kids really struggled with early speech and literacy and didn't particularly catch up. I think the absence of baby talk just made things more difficult for them in the early days.

There were definitely other factors, but the baby talk and an insistence on being grown up from an early age had the opposite effect on them.

My dd had the whole baby talk thing, which my sister thought was so hilariously naff and chavvy, but she blossomed with it. Advanced/early speech and subsequently advanced early literacy skills.

Baby talk goes on for so short a time. I'd say grit your teeth and put up with it. Especially from grandparents. There are worse things!

All kids are different, of course...but my dd had really advanced speech.

Sorry to bump an old discussion, but I've come up with a theory. Have any of the babytalk refuseniks on here suffered the indignity of being known by a vile babytalky nickname they loathed, all through childhood and sometimes into adulthood as well?

My charming brother was unable to pronounce my name as a baby, and his schtoopid mispronunciation stuck. Part of the reason I switched to using my middle name at secondary school was to get away from a hideous cutesy nickname I hated. It didn't work.
My friend has a small baby at the moment and gets cross with her MIL calling her son "Babba". She had to endure being referred to as "Pooey" by her parents until her late 20s.
Is this true for anyone else?