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.

Now if she'd said 'little one', I might've agreed with her.

Who starts a thread at 2am and then just hoofs it?

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to sleep when I eventually get chance, because I now have as an earworm 'High on a hill was a lonely goatherd'.

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

My preferred term for children is crotch droppings.

The kids are alright afaic

Your daughter sounds like one of those annoying, goody two shoes.
Teach her to get a grip otherwise she's not going to cope in the real world.

In Scotland we use 'weans'. How do you and your DD feel about that OP? Should I expect a telling off?

I think it's a perfectly normal phase, please tell me you don't refer to your child as you LO 🤢

Iv gotta say there is something about the phrase from someone I don't particularly know 'you got kids' that makes me shudder slightly..
I would much prefer 'do you have children'

That's the only sense that I don't care for it much.. other than that I use it 🤷‍♀️

Bin lids

Are nippers, squirts and whippersnappers outlawed too now?

Even little cherubs, said sarcastically?

AIBU to dislike people who use ALL CAPS in a shouty way? AIBU to suggest that unless your calling a child something offence then there are probably much better things to concern yourself with? That poor kid is going to have a really tough time when they hit secondary school and beyond if they insist on correcting people all the time.

I can think of far worse things to get exercised about.

Surely children should be called toerags, because that's what they are 99% of the time.

My dd is 7. She knows there are many variations of language and wouldn't dream of "correcting" people, it's pretty damn rude and it's not like people are saying "brats" instead of "children".

Incidentally, my dd knows that a female dog is called a bitch. She also knows the word "goady" and is eagerly awaiting becoming an adult and joining mummy on MN

I think you've over egged it OP. If you'd have said, AIBU to dislike it when people say kids rather than children, then you might have a point, but by saying that you dislike people based purely of their use of one word you just come across as goady. Plus, the shouting.

Ha! Cross post there with Zoflorabore, I see we think alike!

Struggling

Great minds think alike

YABVU. Kids has entered into the English language as meaning children, and the first definition of "kid" in the online Oxford English Dictionary is: informal A child or young person.

I find it’s being used more and more frequently and formally which is when I find it annoying.

I try and avoid using it because I just keep thinking of young goats. I’m sure a teacher of mine said kids were baby goats and not children which is probably why it’s put me off using it.

echt, of course you don't use it when writing. Writing should be more formal.

I use both kids and children. I've been in SW meetings and kids has been used, by Managers/Headteachers etc.

"I’m sure a teacher of mine said kids were baby goats"

Yes they are. We have lots of words in the English language that means more than one thing, some have different spellings, others haven't.

Echt, the issue with children parroting Parents is that sometimes Parents are wrong. It would be better to explain why some people use kids, but they don't like it, rather than say it is wrong. If you correct someone then you assume that you are right.

I'm often surprised about the lack of knowledge on here and across the Baby name threads. We're posters declare legitimate spellings and non traditional English names as made up. If you can come on MN, then you can Google, so they need to use the Internet to educate themselves and avoid passing their ignorance on to their children.

But this is a bullshit thread and not real.

OP, you can't kid a kidder .

meh

People saying “kids” - no problem.

People bringing up children to be smug, pedantic and rude enough to correct others’ speech - unpleasant. You’re doing your DD no favours.

Yabvu

KIDS KIDS KIDS KIDS

Childish but satisfactory.

@steff13 loin fruit??
That's as bad as moist ewwwww!