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Not of world shattering import but calling children 'kids' seems to have changed from the exception to the rule.

I think 'children' is a lovely word,,and as you might expect from an oldie 'kids' is pretty much the opposite.

Any thoughts?

Happy days

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - particularly of the legal kind. (forgive me girls)

Harry, probably because they now have "Nannies" to look after them. re the other part. Sounds like its the Euro,s then You goes. :-S

Its kids for me and always will be :-P

I was a "kid" and guess it stays with me ...Children are so well behaved from the "upper" class .so I'll be a kid or even our kid

kid (n.)
c.1200, "the young of a goat," from O.N. kið "young goat," from P.Gmc. *kiðjom (cf. Ger. kitz). Extended meaning of "child" first recorded as slang 1599, established in informal usage by 1840s.

kidnap
1670s, compound of kid (n.) "child" and nap "snatch away," variant of nab; originally "stealing children to provide servants and laborers in the American colonies."

Mine are 20 and 12 and refered to as Children :-D

My two jobs have included looking after Children so that why i refer to them as such


Teresa :-D

Are you the P.C brigade

I bet the 20 year old likes being called a child

Thank you for the interest. Out-voted on this. Not PC for the word 'children' on my part - just a preference.

Happy days

You lot had me thinking ?

I never realised but i have always called my own children!!
but if i,m talking about others i call them kids !

Maybe its the maternal in me? does,nt matter if other people call my children kids. Its something i have done without thinking.

Flo

No Stan, not PC just always refered to them as such.

My Late Mum and Dad called my Sister and me" children" when talking to people about us, or "the Girls"That only stopped when we had Children of our own
I just suppose its where you come from.
Dad was Irish and Mum from London.

My Aunt from Birmingham refered to my Younger sister as the "babbie" when we were Children( Sister was the last Child on our generation of cousins etc at that time ).
My Sister was not impressed :-D

Teresa

I cannot bear the word 'kids' when referring to children and would never dream of using it. Call me PC, old fashioned or whatever you like, but I think children is a beautiful word and kids is short and harsh. In my opinion :-) BC XX

ooh Memories!! Teresa!!

My mother used to call my younger brother babbie because he was the youngest.!! we others were her children ,though in speach when she wanted to get rid of you from under her feet (so to speak) she used to shout kids!!!!

Flo,

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

(Chinese Proverb) .

IT ALWAYS SOUNDS STRANGE TO ME AN OFFICIAL OAP
SAYING
MY CHILDREN
BUT FEEL COMFORTABLE SAYING
MY KIDS
ALSO GRANDKIDS

Flo i remember a mum who lived on our estate who had six children.
When she wanted them in from playing out she stood on the doorstep and yelled their names in the order they were born from the eldest to the youngest

Teresa :-D

I use both terms equally I think....so I'm not mithered either way.

With my own I invariably call them *the girls* x

Teresa ,

It was,nt us by any chance? no it could not have been my mother had 12
children.!! ha ha. The first lot were working when she had we younger ones .But she used to come out going through our names untill one would answer usually was me! to go to the shops for tea.

Great days! children , kids ? what does it matter?

Flo

I prefer children too.

But when I was a young'n I was a bairn and even though mine are now adults they're still my bairns ;-) :-D

Mau xx

Kids are baby goats, and my children, when younger, have corrected others who have referred to them as 'kids'.
I think it is just a slovenly and lazy misuse of language.

Don't be stuck up its kids from years gone by