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to find it really really irritating when people refer to their daughters as princesses

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Notalone · 15/04/2010 10:07

I probably am but it makes me grind my teeth manically. It is especially worse on FB - I have a few friends with baby girls who's status constantly say "My little princess burped today" "My little princess is soooooo gorgeous" etc etc. what is wrong with referring to them by name? It just seems a bit precious to me.

Ok, rant over. And breathe

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notquitenormal · 15/04/2010 10:32

Sammie, I saw Priness Anne a couple of years ago when she came to do an charity thing I was at. I was talking to a little girl who had brought along a huge bunch of flowers to give to her and she was so looking forward to meeting a 'real' princess. Her mum said that even though she was expecting something Disney, she was still totally chuffed with Princess Anne when she spoke to her.

As for princesses, I don't get it really. We were always called after old coins when I was little. We each had our own; tuppence, thruppennybit, ha'penny. Dunno why.

StealthPolarBear · 15/04/2010 10:34

my little girl gets called alligator but wears plenty of pink

violethill · 15/04/2010 10:35

Agree it's a bit nauseating.

And those hairbands, Loulou, is precisely because the baby girl is bald, and the mum is desperately worried she'll be mistaken for Phil Mitchell so sticks a ridiculous flowery thing on her head. I believe the pinkness, floweryness and glitteryness increases proportionately to the child's age. So when you get still virtually bald two year olds running around, expect very large and flouncy hair accessories.

LouLouH · 15/04/2010 10:37

lol, brilliant. The names celebs come out with for their kids. Do they think they'll never get bullied just because of who they are?! I nearly called my daughter Chiara until a work colleague said haha the drink kia ora. put me off straight away. Sorry gone off topic.

violethill · 15/04/2010 10:37

It's even funnier when the girl eventually grows half an inch of hair, and its scraped mercilessly into two little tufts with scrunchies round them.

(thinks: thank the lord my dd had hair)

LouLouH · 15/04/2010 10:40

my little girls nickname is stinky. god knows where it came from but has stuck and she's nearly 6. oops!

SirBoobAlot · 15/04/2010 10:41

YANBU it makes me shudder involuntarily. A friend of the family said to DS the other day, "Hello sexy boy!"

Also agree about the hairbands and the chav status updates bangs head against wall

RockSteady · 15/04/2010 10:42

nope YANBU but I have tragically called my DD 'Princess' occasionally and felt like a right tool immediately after.
I woudn't put do anything so vom-inducing as to refer to her on facebook as my little princess or anything like that though

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Notalone · 15/04/2010 10:44

sirboobalot - I had to ask one of my old neighbours to stop calling Ds sexy. I am not precious at all but I find referring to children as "sexy" really inappropriate. Children are NOT sexy. Did you say anything?

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LouLouH · 15/04/2010 10:45

violethill my daughter was the same loads of hair, from birth. So we were lucky on the hairband front. She's got hair half way down her back now and wants bunches, but i cant do it! I hate them!

RubysReturn · 15/04/2010 10:48

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SirBoobAlot · 15/04/2010 10:49

Notalone no, was too shocked, and she only popped by briefly. If she does it again I will have to. Totally agree, its inappropriate. Its really horrible...

FagAshLil · 15/04/2010 10:49

I sometime refer to DD as a princess when she's having one of her many tantrums over nothing.
As in "she's a right bloody princess that one"
All the little princess stuff makes me gag, I have a friend on facebook who only ever refers to her DS as 'My little prince'
thinking of deleting her for that alone!

Kneazle · 15/04/2010 10:52

Aww I like bunches Lou ! Whats wrong with bunches ?

skidoodly · 15/04/2010 10:55

"But at least they're giving them positive reinforcement."

i would call that negative reinforcement.

better to be called stinky

LouLouH · 15/04/2010 11:21

skidoodly im glad you said that. I take an 8 yr old boy swimming with my daughter and i said come on stinkys, he got right uppety about it! He's obviously one of the 'prince' kids! lol

TigerFeet · 15/04/2010 12:04

It makes me feel slightly nauseous too I have to admit. I too have FB friends who use it for their baby girls - although to be fair they probably think I am dull, old fashioned and po faced for simply referring to my dd's by name.

dd1 gets called Loopy in RL though
dd2 gets, somewhat inventively I like to think, The Baby.

Don't get me started on those flipping headbands... I was almost tempted when dd2 got called "he" by the swarming little old lady baby admirers when we were out and about on holiday last week. But then the hormones settled and I came to my senses.

lovemyOJ · 15/04/2010 12:11

i call my DD 'stinky pete' no idea why it just came out one day when she had done the foulest smelling poop, now its stuck.
and i call my DS little legs. not all the time obviously usually i use their names as they have such pretty names and i prefer to call them by their names, but sometimes little legs or stinky pete just comes out, usually when DD has trumped or Ds is wriggling out of his tousers!

onebadbaby · 15/04/2010 12:16

I call my dd chicken or chick- some people probably don't like this either.

minipie · 15/04/2010 12:20

YANBU

why would anyone want to suggest to their DD that being a princess is something to aspire to? they'll never be able to be one, and most of the real life ones have had pretty miserable lives anyway.

damnedchilblains · 15/04/2010 12:24

oh well I can't help it my dd's name literally means princess even though she is anything but.

I'm with onebadbaby in calling both of my dc's either chicken or chick

CuppaTeaJanice · 15/04/2010 12:35

Where did all the princessy crap come from? It can't all be Disney's fault!

Real life princesses...

Diana - Short hair, non-pink dresses, early death
Fergie - Plump and frumpy, money problems
Anne & Zara - Sensible and horsey
Margaret - Party-loving

None of them have long, flowing blonde locks and a tutu, and sit simpering while waiting for their prince to whisk them away.

Grrrrrr

damnedchilblains · 15/04/2010 12:40

Aaaaah but grace kelly

TigerFeet · 15/04/2010 12:49

it's not just disney is it? it's fairy tales in general. the princess always has a meringue dress and fabulous hair and a prince and a happy ending. dd1 loves it. i can't understand why, i am the world's least pink mummy and have bought her train sets and so forth in the interests of balance, but even though she's had hours of pleasure from thevtrain set she still prefers her disney princess dolls

Tellhimhesdreaming · 15/04/2010 13:01

Our very very sweet cleaner calls my DD "Princess XX"; I hate it so much but she is such a lovely lady, I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings by saying anything. I always make sure I take the baby to answer the door when she arrives because she loves getting a cuddle and a gummy smile.. and she yells out "Princess XX!!" excitedly to the whole street, I am sure half of them think that's what I named the baby.