"Naughty"

[juneybean]

I've started work at a new nursery and I'm aware of not labelling children but why the total blanket ban on the word nursery, I said it in a general comment to another staff member yesterday and you would have thought I'd called them all a bunch of cunts the look they gave me.

If we're not saying "Don't do that it's naughty" we're saying "don't do that it's not good" if naughty has an effect on a child so does "Not good"

It's ridiculous to have a total ban on a word when we then use other words in it's place.

Counting down to the day I go back to being a nanny!

Yes, you've convinced me again Bertie There's no place for naughty in my vocabulary. I don't need it.

I think the thing which cemented my dislike of it is my boyfriend uses it in a joking way for everything (think he does it to wind me up TBH...) e.g. "You can't drive without a seatbelt on, that's naughty!" No, it's just fucking stupid...