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.

Just call them brats instead. That should satisfy everyone's sensitivities.

CALM DOWN, KIDDO.

OP, you've really got my goat.

I think you're milking it if you think a DD7 correcting adults is something to bleat on about.

How do you stand on 'kiddiwinks', BTW?

Have you been stewing on this for long?

@ThumbWitchesAbroad is that true of kid rather than kids for Oz? My query was only for the singular version if that sense

If your DD corrected my speech I'd send her packing. I find it totally unacceptable for smart-alecky children to "correct" adults . The fact that you are so outspoken about your dislike, has rubbed off on her.

echt
TheBeast explained perfectly why a child correcting an adult’s language leads to a feeling of superiority.

A child is being brought up in the belief she is right and they are wrong. Op is therefore teaching her child not to respect certain people in society because of the way they speak, education or lack thereof.

Her child is therefore being brought up in the belief that some people are more equal than others. All very animal farm. And that would make op and her dd pigs I believe.

Yes.

This thread is getting on my goat!
There I said it!
Now quit your bleating on

Thread taken an odd Orwellian turn for the better

@christmas hasn't it just! There was me going to bed. I'm. Scared now.
Cloven hooves and all that too.

I think it's fair enough for the OP to find "kids" unpleasant. It's certainly not a word I'd use in front of a parent about people I teach, and never ever in writing, and if I was pulled up on it, I'd stand corrected.

If your DD corrected my speech I'd send her packing The child is correcting the TV adults.

The fact that you are so outspoken about your dislike, has rubbed off on her you say that like it's a bad thing. Or aren't parents meant to influence their children? I've made my feelings very clear about the use of bitch/shiksa/cunt to my DD.

echt TheBeast explained perfectly why a child correcting an adult’s language leads to a feeling of superiority

TheBeast has done no such thing. They have excused what this child finds offensive because of common usage. And why on earth don't you get that the child is talking to the TV?? How does this translate to correcting an adult in RL?

It's better than kiddos

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Or aren't parents meant to influence their children?

It’s a fine line, but I do think that there is a difference between teaching your children your values, and training them up to parrot your specific hobby horses.

Ankle botherers?

And what about kiddies?

Where will it end?

I don't want to raise my kids in a nanny state.

Or ankle biters

echt
Thebeast quoted your question about superiority and qualified the basis for the feeling of superiority. The concept of right and wrong breeds this. It seems your understanding of her comment is different from mine. However it is widely recognised in schools that the concept of right and wrong is damaging to young children so much so that in dds primary school the teachers no longer put a red cross but a dot against an incorrect answer and use green pen for marking.

The child is talking to the tv. My dd at 7 wasn’t sure whether or not the people on the tv could see her although she understood they couldn’t interact with her. A child’s understanding of the tv is wildly different from to that of an adult. Just because ops dd is unlikely to correct an adult irl it won’t stop her from thinking she is right and the adult wrong.

Only yesterday there was a report on the news that RP is dying and the younger generation are becoming more proud of their regional accents. Yet here is a child, who is being taught to not celebrate differences and correct those, who are using words perfectly correctly.

Rug rats

😂 It irritates me a bit too. No idea why. I always remember a friend at primary school using the “kids are baby goats” line as she didn’t like being called it and it stuck with me. Although I have been known to use the term kiddywinks in jest when my own are being cheeky which is arguably worse. 😳

I haven't heard rugrats in a while.

Sometimes I call mine "loin fruit." They don't care for it.

Come to think of it, I don’t hear many ppl say ‘children’. What’s that saying about it’s ruder to correct people? ;)

Loin fruit ! Ooh I feel slightly queasy just seeing the word. Certainly puts 'kids' in perspective doesn't it ?

Sure, if this is the hill you want to die on .....