to hate this DS , DD, DP, business??

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I can totally understand why you would abbreviate YANBU, or IYSWIM etc, but it takes no time to type, son, daughter, husband, partner, they're one word!

It makes my teeth grind a bit everytime I red DD1 and DS2, beccause I would never say,
"Why, let me tell you about my dear daughter, or my dear partner", it makes me CRINGE!

Does anyone else feel a twat writing these?

how many interenet sites talk about dh dd etc?

Do you mean the parenting ones?

I agree, YANBU - I never use them!

I don't like them either but have fallen in with the custom. Perhaps in future I'll write Kitten1, Kitten 2 etc - Tomcat for husband? But it's harder to identify gender if you do that. I'm not sure Tomkitten1 and Shekitten1 would really work. Must go and finish lunch as all will be back from Church with Tomcat soon.

Not mad about it but just go along. Always find it extraordinary when they refer to exes as ex-dp/dh and then describe their terrible behaviour - surely they can drop the "d" under those circumstances?

Oh I don't mind it. Actually I've always thought it gently ironic.

My darling husband has been having an affair.

My dear son 1 has just cut up his duvet cover.

My Ds's initials are actually DS

YANBU I don't like them either, but it seems they are just common parlance EVERYWHERE on the internet - at least on parenting forums. I regularly chat and read forums in Ireland and the US and everyone uses ds dd dh etc. It took me a while to figure it out and I thought the first site I saw it on (an Irish one) was peopled by eejits, but now I don't think about it. If I can be arsed I'll type daughter or wee one, and sometimes its lo (little one) rather than dd. As everyone else says, if you don't like it type the full word.

I have no probs with LO either as I might actualy call my son the little one.

Still getting over BD, my DH (joke) couldn't believe it when I told him!

Having said that he'd probably call it smoochywoochymummydaddycuddledancing if it meant he'd get any!

I hated it to begin with, but don't really notice anymore. It communicates relationships clearly and quickly and the 'D' component just seems a sort of marker for the C,S,D,H etc that follows.