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.

Dislike is a bit strong. Find irritating, yes. Does it really matter though?

YABVU, and your kid is very rude. She has no right to correct anyone and you should be teaching her how to live around others who don’t necessarily speak the same as she does, rather than encouraging her into someone nobody wants to be around.

An ex boyfriends mother hated it too and she was strange. Forced me once to cut grass with scissors as lawn needed cutting. Did it for half an hour to keep the peace and ended the relationship the next day. Shes the only one i come across who hates the word kids and as a result has made me nervous using it. yabu and ott. Are you my ex boyfriend mother? Its just a word.

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More like this please, they're brilliant.
Can't wait to use them on my kids when they get up

Ah do you prefer the full name. A always call mine the kiddiewinkles. Is that okay?

I like the word 'sprog' - very descriptive!

I honestly thought that rugrats (which I thought was pronounced 'roo-grats' was some kind of children's cartoon!

I love saying kid. I say it all the time. Really not a big deal. When did everyone get so precious about everything?

YABU
I like the word kids.

Language is fluid. Words change their meanings - in Jane Austen the word “diverted” usually meant amused rather than distracted. And “gay” has a completely different primary meaning than it did 100 years ago. Kid means small goat and small child. Live with it.

Haha funniest stupidest stealth bost of the month. Well done for your dd7 knowing what kids means. 👏 👏 👏

Milktray, rugrats is an Australian nickname for kids. It was a cartoon series about a group of children in the 90s, the cartoon got its title from the phrase. I think it was shown during Going live on a Saturday morning.

I don't like it, OP.

It's one of the filters I applied when online dating. As you can imagine, it narrowed my pool drastically but it grates on me.

I was also corrected for using it as a child because a 'kid' is an infant goat. I only ever say 'children'.

I'm a teacher (of humans not baby goats) I teach about 150 kids every day 😁

OP do you ever find people telling you to large piece of turf off?

If your DD corrected me then I wouldn't call her a kid. I'd call her a little shit

Well, YABU to dislike people over this, and your child is being rude to adults. I don’t like “kids” and correct my DS if he uses the term at home. However, use of the term is a class difference, and is just one of those things that people either do or don’t- no need to be unpleasant or lose friends over!

Why not find a real issue to worry about and find unpleasant. Like all the disabled and poor people suffering under Universal Credit.

I'd be more worried that a 7 year old didn't realise that the people on TV couldn't hear her

Well you dislike me then. I have a feeling this is no great loss...

I'm unpleasant.

Fantastic.

I've finally got to what I inspired to be

Meanwhile, back in the real world - I'm still a highly respected practitioner who works with kids children with complex needs.

If if we're doing competetive stealth boasts op, my dd (7) knows the word "palaeolithic" and I didn't

She's a smart kid

'DD7 corrects people she has heard on TV call children kids as she knows that 'kids' are baby goats.'

You've got just what you wanted there Op

A chip off the old Nauseous block

See what I mean, I even write the word "if" twice...

It's a perfectly acceptable word that's commonly used.
It might annoy you, but it's a bit much to have passed this onto your child so much she feels the need to self-righteously correct people on the TV.

There are all sorts of language features that will annoy different people. Most of us have the common sense to know it's our preference and don't get so uptight about it.

I'd be more worried that a 7 year old didn't realise that the people on TV couldn't hear her confused

Good catch.

On the other hand, given that OP hasn't returned to the thread, it would appear she doesn't know that people on the internets can "hear" her.