To not want my dd to be called a skid

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Not a thread about a thread but a thread about a term used on lots of threads in 'step parenting'.

I've never seen step children referred to as skids in any other place, but it seems that the step parenting board uses it quite frequently.

Like skid marks? A bit off poo left behind in pants when someone doesn't wipe properly. Nice. Is this an acceptable way to refer to anyone's children?

Dsc uses less letters so would be quicker, so why use skids? Is it a reflection on how you feel about your dsc?

AIBU to find this offensive?

Oh well, I'm sure you'll get over it, especially as you're not even the OP

And you know it doesn't reference poo either which helps.

Well for some people it clearly does - goes round in circles

And I think OP is rubbish too - and I try not to use it but sometimes I do if I can't scroll up or have forgotten the OP's name.

But if someone told me on here that something I said was offensive, I'd think about it and then not use it. Especially if it was as simple as typing dsc or sk rather than skids.

Well your post says you don't want your child referred to as a skid
It offends you
Therefore the simplest thing to do is to approach your child's sm and make it perfectly clear how you feel
Just in case she's on mn

Then I said you can't control whether she comes on mn and says 'guess what, batty exw has emailed me to say she doesn't want me calling the sc/dsc 'skids' who does she think she is telling me what abbreviations I use'

How are you ever going to know? How will you know if your dc are referred to as spoilt brat ect privately? You aren't. So yes.. YABU because you can't control the way other people think, feel, or choose to abbreviate their words.

I'm offended by dsc.

The 'd' could mean dear for expensive.

So Stepmonsters are implying that their step-children are expensive.
Or dear as in cherished and therefore trying to steal the children away.

I'd like the term step-children to be used, but this could imply that they want the children to sit on the naughty step or are a step behind other children.

I think the term should be nmcbacilebntmc.

Not my child, but a child I like enough, but not too much, child.

Lol doas - make sure that gets put in the acronyms list

Shouldn't it be...

nmcbacwistamobntmlmoiciutrm?

Not my child but a child who I should treat as my own but not too much like my own in case it upsets their real mum?

What do you mean real mum? they only have one mum

It looks like the thread has moved on, but OP yanbu. I think the usage was originally American and the thing was that the step parent would refer to the birth mother and the step kids as BM and the skids. BM also being used as short for bowel motion in the US.

Hilarious. If people who use skids haven't realised that they are calling their step children skid marks as in on underwear, then they might want to rethink.

But that is only if you are uncouth enough to refer to 'skid marks' in the first place, which I most certainly am not.