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.

Yes you are bu

Oh jeeeez

@steff13 I sometimes call mine my womb-fruit hahaha.

It’s not too bright or well-mannered of people to point out a perfectly CORRECT use of the word in an informal day to day context. Unless your 7 DD has a professional job and regularly signs off letters and other communications referring to children in a formal context then she will be coming across as a pompous, insufferable brat.

It’s not the worst I’ve heard. The worst was a grandparent who poo-poohed the idea of being referred to as “Nanny” by saying “I’m not a goat.” She could at least have made herself look a bit more intelligent by saying “in my eyes a nanny is a child carer, so I prefer Granny/Grandma”

I think people need to be a bit less uptight and realise that language evolves, other people might use words in different ways but that doesn’t make them WRONG. Just use the term you want to use yourselves and stop pointing out the correct use of a word to others just because YOU don’t like it. It makes you look like an arsehole. Oh, sorry, I meant anus.

And to say you actually dislike such people. You’re a knob. Sorry, I meant penis.

Yes. yabu.

This whole thread is a stealth boast 'im middle class' and the best you ciuld hope for is that the thread and boast cancel each other out and leave no trace.

😗

My we'uns couldn't care less what they were called and certainly wouldn't correct anyone tv or otherwise.
My goat however says yabu

I teach and refer to my class as “kids” when talking to other people and “guys” when talking to them - you’d hate me

You're painting a target on your child's back with this.

There is a funny show on netflix,great news, and a character's over bearing mother is indulging in a little fantasy where her daughter takes her advice and cracks on with marriage and babies. She visualises an older woman taking cookies out of tge oven and young children squealing "grandma!" in delight. "But that's not me' she thinks. Then she wakes her self up yelling "omg if the husband's mother is Grandma, i must be nanny". She stops nagging her dd to get married.

"Kids" is shorter to say, that's probably why @LunaLovegoodsRadishes said it. Even the pompous geek Mr Sutcliffe from Grange Hill often said "kids". I remember thinking when I were a kid that "children" was quite a difficult world to spell, to say nothing of the unusual plural. I wonder if those who would say "they're not teachers, they're masters" might have said "kids"?

The story "the wolf and the seven little kids" springs to mind. Their mum would be vilified on Mumsnet for leaving them at home alone, when there was a dangerous paedophile wolf lurking. "He may disguise himself, but you will know him from his rough voice and black feet." Problem solved.

I still have my childhood dictionary, from when I were a kid aged seven. Some words are marked "informal", I had to look up what that meant at the time. I've just checked and "kid" is indeed marked as such when it means child; also when kid is used a verb.

How old is your dd7 and what are your six older daughters' views on the matter?

Or did you in fact mean dd (7)? See we all have our bugbears!

Please stop your dd7 from correcting people. It's an unnecessary and unpleasant thing to do. Even as an adult. Why would you brag about that? Eurgh.

Your dd needs to know she's the one that wrong, as that isnt its only meaning, and YABU

You’d HATE me. I’m a head and I always use kids!

Please stop your dd7 from correcting people. It's an unnecessary and unpleasant thing to do. Even as an adult. Why would you brag about that? Eurgh.

Quite why the op feels the need to brag about her little darling being both rude and wrong is beyond me.

If I'd 'corrected' an adult in this way as a kid, my mother would have kicked my arse so hard people would have thought Clarks had started making hats.

FunkyKingston
Quite.
What seems cute to parents at 7 makes a pain in the arse by teenage years.

I'm very open to students correcting me if I've made a mistake. I'm also very up for healthy debate.
I remember one year getting exceptionally irritated at the resident I think i know it all, who would insist on interrupting, putting their hand up to correct me, arguing the opposite of what I was saying, try to correct me on how to teach etc. They genuinely thought they were some exceptionally gifted master who had endless wisdom to share with me and the class. The problem was 99% of what they'd say would be either misinformed or woefully silly. Any time their own lack of knowledge was pointed out by me or the students was met with a sulk because we clearly didn't understand their brilliance.
People who think they know it all and enjoy correcting other people never know as much as they think they do in my experience.

It looks like the OP has lobbed her little grenade and buggered off.

I agree that kids is a perfectly acceptable informal way to refer to children, that SHOUTING IN CAPITALS IS FECKING ANNOYING, and that the OP’s child needs to be to,d that there is nothing wrong with the word ‘kids’ - it doesn’t just mean baby goats, and that she should not start correcting adults in real,life even though her mum thinks it is clever of her to ‘correct’ people on the TV (hint, OP - if she tries to correct adults in real life, she will look pompous and bratty, as well as ill-informed about the English language).

Stop being so ridiculously precious.

Hope the OP realised how prattish her beliefs are and ran off to luck her wounds. Her daughter corrects people? How unspeakably rude.

...lick

CAP LOCK ISSUES, OP?

I get annoyed by people who use the DD/DS acronym wrong. The number that follows is the birth order of the child not the age.

I say kids, I give zero fucks if it annoys anyone.

I used to call mine my minoins, before the stupid little yellow shots from the film were a thing. I call them kid, or kids. It's perfectly normal, lots of people use the word.

It's obnoxiously rude for a 7 year old child to correct adults, especially strangers. You're teaching your kid to be a brat.