To ask my MIL not to call my daughter.....

[BunnyLebowski]

.....sexy baby over and over again i.e

"Who's a sexy little baby?"

"DD's a sexy little baby"

"Sexy sexy sexy baby"

DD is 5 months old.

MIL was up visiting last weekend. I asked her not to use language like that as it's horrible and sounds completely ridiculous.

What's wrong with cute/gorgeous/cheeky ffs?!

Didn't go down well but she didn't do it again!

Was IBU?

P.S - This is my first post EVER on mn so please be gentle!

eugh

just tell her to stop

How strange.

Yuk. Can't think of anything more inappropriate.

I agree. It's stupid. (not to mention incorrect use of the word) Well done for telling her.

You are not being unreasonable.

I would hate anyone to refer to my DSDs (even though they are 14 and 11 now!) as sexy if they were adults.

To me 9 month old son, I would find it positively strange.

i think you are right to ask her to stop.

my MIL called DS sexy legs

she is a freak well done on telling her to stop

YANBU

i really can;t stand the use of the word sexy in regards to children.

like you say,there are lots of different words

babies and children are many things, but not sexy.

Ugh - no, YA def NBU. I'd freak if someone, ANYONE referred to my kids in those terms.

yup. That's horrible. My xmil used to say to my son "I'm gonna eat you up, I'm gonna eat you up". It made me shudder.

My xstepMil told my dd she had hair legs!!!!

Lovely to be able to type those Xs! xmil xstepmil phew!

A Mum at school calls ds2 (4y) 'sexy' when he wears shorts and it makes me cringe!!

I just dont know what to do or say without being horrible to her!

YANBU

DD is just 2 and a mother at playgroup always says to her DS "Hello sexy" when she picks him up... Bleh, bleh, gross inappropriate word to describe a child

'tis vile.

you'd be surprised though, how many people do use it and get very defensive and tell you that they don't mean it "like that"

the word means sexually attractive. It's quite clear.

Although 'sexy' seems to be used to describe everything these days. A sexy baby, a sexy car, a sexy cup, a sexy sofa, a sexy tin of beans in your bloody cupboard.

HOW many words in the damned English language ffs?! You haven't got a limit you're allowed to use!

an old friend of mine used to refer to her son like that, from being born.

not something I like I have to say!

I agree Hecate. I blame Nigella.

very odd

yanbu

I would have done the same BL. How is sexy appropriate for a baby? Weird

Weird. I'd tell her to stop, too.

YANBU. Horrible, horrible, horrible and well done for telling your MIL. If she continues to do it, please continue to tell her to stop. It is entirely inappropriate and I am sure there are a thousand words to call your DD and sexy would not even figure.

Welcome to MN... am sure you won't get a flaming with this as your first post

I call my daughter scrumptious. Is that okay?

Cheers everyone!

I knew I was right but it's nice to have my stance validated by you lovely lot

DP agreed with me but was less vociferous as he didn't want to upset his mum....

Ta!

Wierdo (not you Bunny - a big fluffy welcome to you)

I am always calling my DSs handsome (because they are)