To think calling the group 'Raggamuffins' is wrong?

[PenguinBear]

A local class aimed at children under 5 has the name 'Raggamuffins'. I don't know IABU or whether I am over reacting and other people are not bothered?

no no. Send it by all means. Then please send us their bewildered reply!

You could post it here, Penguin

And write to little tykes while you're at it too. :)

I would forget it and post it on here.

No, No - don't destroy the email. Please send it. I'd love to know if they have this emoticon .......... or this one........

Oh good, I needed a chuckle. And hats off Op for being so prepared to be wrong. :)

Please post on here.

One of our local childcare centers has groups called 'rogues' & 'scoundrels'

I call my children urchins sometimes. Is that wrong?

God, I still call my teens ragamuffins when they look scruffy. I had absolutely no idea it was possibly a no-no (I thought it might be outdated and old fashioned though)

YABVU

Google 'Ragged schools' - schools for the poor in the C19th.

At this rate we'll soon only have a handful of words left that don't upset somebody or other. What then?

I call my dc raggamuffins, which is silly because they are better dressed than I am!

It's an affectionate term for a dirty/scruffy child.

Culturally we've come so far from the Dickensian reality of hoards of poor children with no shoes that it's become a jokey term.

Nothing to be het up about OP, but please do post your email here

I'm always using the word. I quite like it.

Don't understand what's wrong with this. I use this as a term of endearment for the DCs...

It's not like the group is called LittleBuggers is it?

what with this and the 'boiler engineer doing a poo in her toilet and taking photos' thread,( it's good read it,) I now feel that others are clearly pissed as farts on a school night.

Mme - I would have happily sent my dses to a nursery/class called Little Buggers!

It's not like it's called "Tiny Wankers", or "Musical Little Shits"

To me "raggamuffins" are what my DCs are approximately 30 seconds after being dressed in clean clothes with freshly scrubbed faces and neatly brushed hair. Quite how they manage it is a mystery to me. I call them urchins more often than raggamuffins, mind you.

I use it a lot too. It's a great word. I happily shout 'come on ragamuffins' across parks etc. perhaps the OP has witnessed this and thinks its a way of rounding up the ethnics.

Why do people always blame their hormones when people don't agree with them? Just admit you were wrong/silly/whatever.

a better name would be Fucking Bastards

There's a childminding service near me called 'little bees'. Always makes me chuckle

Isn't it a type of cat?

The boys get called ratbags and ragamuffins many times a day aged only 1 and 3, its cute (and true)