I Hate the term KIDS !!

ka7e

I am not quite sure how to refer to my offspring - I dislike "kids", but at 16,16 and 20 they are no longer "children"!
I have "the twins", (boy/girl combo) and "the boys", but no real collective term for them all. My Dad still refers to me and my 4 siblings as "the kids" even though the youngest is 42!

Queenie

Katinkka wrote:

....... a friend does say 'bairn' and I cant stand that either.

:eek: But .... but .... but .... :eek: ... that's Northernese!!!!! I was "the bairn" right up until I was orphaned in my 20's ... I miss it! Bairn has a wonderful, cosy, loving feel to it

Paul_Varjak wrote:

'Kids' are OK, providing they are preceded by: 'Honey I Shrunk The'

:rotfl: :rotfl:

bad_mum

Paul_Varjak wrote:

What I don't understand is why a person who does not like the term 'kids' calls herself 'bad mum' - is that what the 'children' call you? If, so what do you think of it?

BTW, someone that lives near me has the car registration: H8 MUM. If you like, I will have a word with her and see if she would like to sell it to you!

Called myself bad mum from "the bad mothers handbook" which I happen to be reading at the moment, it's really good, funny.
Plus I just couldn't think of anything, also tried to edit it to "Not so bad mum" but seems that isn't something you can do once you're registered!

IvanOpinion

Although in modern day hip-hop street speak does 'bad' not mean 'good' I have heard many a sprog talking about 'bad mother something-or-others'... I get totally confused by kid-speak.

Ivan

Bogof_Babe

ka7e wrote:

I am not quite sure how to refer to my offspring - I dislike "kids", but at 16,16 and 20 they are no longer "children"!
I have "the twins", (boy/girl combo) and "the boys", but no real collective term for them all. My Dad still refers to me and my 4 siblings as "the kids" even though the youngest is 42!

How about "the chaps"? My sister and her husband call their two (one of each) the chaps, and I think it must be more a unisex word nowadays.

I am guilty of the "hubby" thing, as husband sounds so sort of regal (note I made the effort above), and I don't want to give his real name. On another site I once referred to him as "himself" just in jest, but now everyone seems to use that and I don't want to be like the rest of the pack.

There's always Mr* (in my case Mr Bogof) but that is a bit twee as well. Maybe we just shouldn't mention them?

Queenie

Bogof_Babe wrote:

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There's always Mr* (in my case Mr Bogof) but that is a bit twee as well. Maybe we just shouldn't mention them?

:rotfl: Yup, I'll drink to not mentioning them :beer:

bad_mum

IvanOpinion wrote:

Although in modern day hip-hop street speak does 'bad' not mean 'good' I have heard many a sprog talking about 'bad mother something-or-others'... I get totally confused by kid-speak.

Ivan

That's another reason I wanted to re do my name to 'not so bad mum' (and I didn't use the word mother, for those precise reasons. Will think a little more before typing a name next time!

SidB_2

My kids are kids. I'm an old goat, so the term suits them.

The thing that winds me up are ones like "cutie-pie" or "sweetness" or other sickly terms.

bad_mum

What I am refering to is the term when it is used in advertising, printed on your cereal box etc. 'book your holiday now, kids go free' .People nearly always ues the term in a demeaning way i.e, the kids are annoying, the kids have to go to football, etc.

But as MRCOW says the term Hubby is annoying too,
are we on the verge of advertisers taking up slogans such as
'you and hubby book now, cutie-pie goes free' ?

It could happen!!!

gravitytolls

me too, but I've recently given into it, cos I can type it quicker using one hand whilst the supports breast feeding baby.

I also hate 'fart' and would them to be referred to as 'fluffs'