Mothers want their children to grow up to be polite and respectful.

This woman, for instance, wants her little girl to call people by their real names.

Because, for her, calling them by their nicknames or shortened names is being “rude.”

When she heard her daughter calling baseball players by their nicknames, she tried correcting her, but her husband thinks this is ridiculous.

Read all the details below.

AITA for insisting my daughter call adults by their real names?

I (29F) have a 4-year-old daughter with my husband.

He is a die-hard fan of a certain baseball team.

A few days ago, we were in the car and he had the radio on one of their spring training games.

He and my daughter were listening to it.

This woman noticed that their daughter was calling some of the players by their nicknames.

I noticed that she called at least a few players, but not by their full name.

I didn’t say anything in the moment, but afterwards, I talked to him and asked him to tell her to call them by their real names.

As I believe it is disrespectful for children to call adults by nicknames.

Her husband said she was being absurd.

He got upset by this, and said that what she called them was what they were commonly referred to as.

He said I was being absurd.

I told him I think it’s rude, and that it wouldn’t be hard for her to call them by their actual names and that he was setting a bad example because she’s just calling them whatever he did.

She explained that it’s quite rude not to call adults by their real names.

He said that she couldn’t. Because the majority of the players she calls by shortened names have S’s or R’s in their names and she can’t say them.

I told him it’s still rude and she wouldn’t call any other adult by a nickname, so this shouldn’t be different.

She tried correcting her daughter, and he got annoyed.

He left the room, but I looked up the players’ actual names.

The next time a game was on in the background, I corrected my daughter.

She couldn’t say it and got frustrated, so I turned it off.

My husband was annoyed, and said I’m choosing a ridiculous hill to die on.

So now, she’s wondering if what she’s doing was wrong.

AITA?

I don’t think it’s wrong to want to teach my daughter to respect other people.

But he is being very insistent.

It seems like the mom is making a big deal out of nothing.

What can you say about this? Let’s read the comments of other people on Reddit.

This user has a point.

While this one shares a good real-life example.

This user thinks maybe she’s just jealous of them.

Simple but straightforward!

And lastly, people are calling her out.

Ruining the fun for a child and her father is not good parenting.

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