AIBU TO DISLIKE PEOPLE WHO CALL CHILDREN 'KIDS'

[SuzieCath]

Just that really. I just find it unpleasant and my DD7 corrects people she has heard on TV call children kids as she knows that 'kids' are baby goats.

I call my kids all sorts, children, little herberts, kids, sprogs, poppet, etc.
Sometimes I remember their names.
I think I'd be really embarrassed if mine started correcting people's use of an acceptable term.
I bet the corrected think it's bad parenting at best.

I also like bairns and on the dialect I am fully aware I did not give birth to farm outhouses and nor did I name all my children Ben.

YABU and I would hate to spend a day getting sooooo upset about a non issue.

*and depending on the dialect

Where's OP? Is it milking time for the kids?

You took the words out of my mouth almost, multi. Perhaps that's where OP is, encouraging DD as she corrects The Pretenders on Top of the Pops reruns?

And, let's not forget, it's Child Creole and The Coconuts.

@BlackBeltInChildWrangling

Come on, OP. Come back. We'll understand if it was drunk typing at 2am.

We'll handle you with kid gloves. We promise.

I’d find your kid very rude and pedantic 🙄

Yanbu to teach your child to correct adults.

Haven’t read the whole thread, but I think anyone who shouts unnecessarily is unreasonable.

I use kids. I use guys. But it works with my Californian accent. I can get away with it.

Wow. Just wow.

Some of these posts are a bit gruff.
My kids' nanny often takes them for a trot round the hill for a veggie munch. They hoof it because theyre hungry. They bleat on while they're waiting for her

Very good! 🐐

I've just seen a BBC News report that signs have been vandalised overnight in Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and London, correcting place names to Childerminster, Childlington, Childlington Hall and Childerpore Green. Witnesses say an irate woman and a kid aged about 7 have been seen running away.

So that's where the OP's been hiding.

(Must've been Billy The Child).

Some of these posts are a bit gruff.

Nicely done.

Let's stick together. If the users of "kids" are united we will never be devided.

Do we think the op come back. how must it feel to have 11 pages of the people having a go at you eek.

I think of happy skippy little things when I hear/say 'kids'. I'm not that bothered that OP dislikes me

I am feeling particularly rebellious today.

Butt out of everyone.
(Or is it 'but'?)

Insert 'it'. Sorry.

Kids are sweet little animals. They eat everything, are very curious about stuff and smell a bit. It's affectionate and harmless. I like it.

My kid says ‘guys’ all the time. Sounds weird but cute coming from a 3 year old kid.