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Submitted by momof4plus2 on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 12:33pm

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My SO and SS BM still SS baby.. Give baby a kiss for me.. how is baby doing. Anytime he does anything he says He's 8. He's only 8. Ok So when my 11 year old BS does something wrong is he only 11? WTH! it drives me crazy. We have a BABY he is 10 months old and we don't call him baby. Does anyone else have this problem or think it is weird? He actually get annoyed when I correct him. I always he is not a baby he is a child...Well he's only 8...uuughhh

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Submitted by Ninji on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 12:38pm

SO loves to say, Time to pick up the babies or The babies are coming tomorrow. This kinda crap.

They are 9 and 11 next month. When I correct him, he says they will always be my babies. Yeah I get that but do you have to CALL them babies.

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Submitted by Snowflake on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 12:42pm

My ex-SIL used to call my kids the "babies". I think it was because they were the youngest, and eventually became a pet names for them.

Could be a pet name, which is still annoying.

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Submitted by momof4plus2 on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 12:47pm

It just drives me crazy it contributes to his bratty spoiled behavior, he will even argue with my 11yr old and say I'm only 8. Like that has become an excuse. Maybe he wouldn't be so ehh hmmm slow if you treated him his age.

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Submitted by AllySkoo on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 2:26pm

Lol "Baby" doesn't bother me. It's my pet name for my five year old. Smile I don't think I've ever excused bad behavior by saying "he's only five!" though. Although I HAVE had said it, in more of the following context:

DH: "Time for bath."
BS5: "I don't need one."
DH: "Yes you do, everyone needs baths."
BS5: "No, not everyone."
DH: "Mom and I take baths!"
BS5: "Well *I* don't!"
ME: GAH! He's FIVE. Just TELL him, stop arguing with him like you're going to get him to see reason! Or carry him upstairs and toss him in for crap's sake. You won't be able to do that when he's 15, but he's only five, you can still do that for now!

Lol THAT'S the sort of "He's only five!" that I end up saying.

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Submitted by alittlepinot on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 2:57pm

I hate to tell you at least in my situation the justification by age doesn't get any better. I have 5 steps ranging 3-21. I hear it for all of them. She's only 3, she's 16 that is how they are, he is 11 he doesn't know any better but when they age out it's different. He's 18 what am I supposed to do about it?

Lol. I HATE IT! We've actually had fights about it. I'm into parenting not making excuses. Sure my kid is tired, hungry, hot, FIVE, I'm sorry that he had negative behavior to you but him being (insert excuse) doesn't excuse it so guess what? Now he's in trouble.

Sometimes I wish I could live in the land of parenteral justification for everything. Must be nice to produce and raise entitled brats who will never be productive members of society. Oh wait...no it's the other way around. Haha.

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Submitted by Anna21 on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 9:27pm

With my own daughter FDH will always say "she is 15 she should grow up etc" but SD is one year younger and never has to grow up. Grrr.

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Submitted by Mb90 on Sat, 01/24/2015 - 9:25pm

I've never heard SO call his dd4 baby, but I've heard "she's four" about a million times when he's justifying bad behavior. He has also said she's pretty much a toddler...umm she's going to be in Kindergarten in the fall. Do we send toddlers to kindergarten? No. Jesus.