......to hate the word "kiddie"?

[MamaG]

It makes me cringe

Kids I can just about cope with, kiddies is awful. Refer to my DSs as 'chilblains' or 'the boys'.

Kids is vaguely acceptable but I do feel slightly soiled if I use it... kiddies is awful - irritatingly pretentious imo.

Kiddo and rugrats

YANBU.

Not for me either - but I also not keen on kids.

As I only have 1 I tend to say her name, and when speaking to friends etc, I tend to say your 2 or 3 ie are you taking your 2 to the park today?

Have to say that I am not sure I have ever heard anyone I know say kiddies (or maybe my subconscious has drowned it out)...

I don't like kiddies (it conjures paedophile for some reason), I don't like kids either.
In our house my big boys (15 and 11) are chaps and my youngest two (21 months and 8 weeks)are the beasts .

I don't like 'kids or kiddies' much and tend to use 'the girls' or 'little ones'.

Hate "kiddies", hate "kids".

I talk about "the children", "the boys" and "my daughter".

I don't mind "kids", but "kiddies" is just bleaugh! Can't stand "hun"

My family also talks about the "weans". I normally call them the "monsters".

Hate kiddies, don't really like kids either (well, my own are OK) I say the girls or the children. Or the beasts, depending on behaviour. To their faces, I say girliwigs - this started as a joke as their grandma is hysterical about earwigs which she calls eariwigs. They have started to retaliate by calling me Mummywig. Not so funny now.

I use the kids, the monkeys or those little brats. Also say the girls but in my head I hear Sally Webster whining "the girrrrls" so I try to avoid it.

Another one who doesn't like kiddies, or kids.

I say "boys" when I am talking to mine collectively and children when I am talking about them to someone else.

I did start referring to DS1 and 2 and Thing 1 and Thing 2 a la Doctor Seuss but DS1 didn't like it at all!

Of course I was joking when I said it should be kiddo

I refer to my dds by their names in the specific

Or if talking generally, children

kiddies is not good!! kids ok ish

Kiddies is what Linda Snell would say, and is therefore IMO completely boak. I see nothing wrong with kids, though.

Sometimes you want to use more than one word for the same thing. I say "my husband" sometimes, other times I use his name and sometimes I call him the other'arf, which started off as a joke and then got into ocmmon parlance somehow. [cringe]

always refer to my as "the boys".......or when we're leaving Morrisons "BOYS"!

Was rather pleased when DC3 turned out to be a boy as it meant I didn't have to change it LOL

trust me, there are worse things I could call my lot

Don't really care - not something I have ever thought about TBH! Now moist is a word I really, really hate!!

My dh always says "Morning Gulls" to me and dd when he (finally) gets up. It really, really grates on me for some reason and I now have the fixed grin as soon as I hear him walking down the stairs!

One of my work colleagues always talks about 'the child' when discussing her (one and only) ds - I always wonder why she just can't say his name....

kids = ok

kiddies + tots = revolting.

YANBU!

yanbu.When we were little,if anyone referred to us as kids or kiddies,my mother would glare at them & frostly say.'They are my children,not small goats'.