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.

Minions FFS.

I used to call mine little Herberts. They are all taller than me now, but still Herberts.

This is one of those things I've only come across on MN and I assume it's part of that all-consuming (for some) class obsession. Perhaps people think if they express horror ar the word 'kid' being used in reference to a child that people might mistake them for the Duchess of Devonshire rather than plain old Sarah from Swindon.

And, OP, you might want to teach your kid not to correct people. You may find it simply charming, everyone else will just think she's a tiresome bore.

You and your DD sound insufferably pretentious. It was a hackneyed and eye-roll inducing response from pedantic clever-clogs (in the futile hope we'd all start channeling the Queen Mother) when I was a kid - and, according to my kids, that was around the time dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

excuse capitals: IT'S A JOKE POST.

Just another Mumsnet thing that I am baffled people give head space to.

My 95 year old great aunt used to hate that too, and correct anyone who used it. She was met with almost universal eye rolls.

NC for this.

Funnily enough though, the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire would have been as keen on using words other than children as most of us are.

IME, using familiars for children - including kids, brats and kiddos - crosses any perceived lines including social class.

IME, using familiars for children - including kids, brats and kiddos - crosses any perceived lines including social class.

Not class-related at all.

Some words have more than one meaning. Get over it.

It's OK. I dislike you too.

MEH, I CAN''T GET WORKED UP ABOUT IT. SENTENCES IN SHOUTY CAPS ARE MORE ANNOYING IMO

ANYWAY, IT'S JUST A WORD. EVEN THOUGH KIDDIES IS MORE ANNOYING THAN KIDS BUT EVEN THEN I STILL CAN'T GET TOO RILED ABOUT IT.
JUST A WORD, INNIT.

The only person in real life who is bothered by it is my nan. Other than her everyone I know says kids.

I once asked a friend i hadn't seen for a while how her kids were.

She very snootily said that her CHILDREN were well but that she didn't own any goats.

It was said in such a superior way that it put me right off her.

I would never use kids. My mother always said that meant baby goats. However I certainly don't dislike anyone who does.

Haha, I’m sorry but I’m one of the same camp, and I know it’s U, I always correct them, she’s a child, not a baby goat.

But clearly kid is not only defined as baby goat ppl are not so stupid as to not realise that, and so its not the reason ppl are using the term with reference to children.

People are not stupid enough to think that's the reference you are making when using the term kid

Haha, I’m sorry but I’m one of the same camp, and I know it’s U, I always correct them, she’s a child, not a baby goat.

I suppose it's a handy way to flag up to people early on that you're a pedantic bore.

An ill-informed, pedantic bore.

🙄 YOU AND YOUR KID NEED TO GET A GRIP 🙄

Tis such utter rubbish! Kid does not mean baby goat used in that context, clearly! So why ppl choose to say that is completely meaningless snobbery.
Lie the last two posts, yes just pedantic and boorish

Also, JOKE POST