Why do people use the word "kiddo"?

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Anonymous wrote:The principal at our ES always says "kiddos" but never "kids" or "children" -- I don't get this. Is "kiddos" more PC or better school speak for some reason?

What's to get? It is an affectionate term for kids. "Children" is fine if you are living in the 50s and kids are baby goats.

Kids are not “goats.” Words have multiple meanings.

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Anonymous wrote:I use kiddo so strangers don’t know if girls or boys im very private. So today my kiddo was acting up but a drive around the lights made everything better.

Seems like “kid” would accomplish the same thing without being cutesy and gross.

It’s what my beloved grandmother called me and my siblings and it makes me happy. Sorry it’s so revolting!

OP here. I think it is the context that bothers me with our ES principal. It doesn't help that I generally view her as disingenuous and lacking transparency but when she refers to the children at the school as "kiddos" and her actions indicate she has no genuine affection for them, I feel like she has focus-grouped a word and decided it will serve her purposes. A beloved grandmother saying it is perfect, but not the principal.

Ok you don't like her so no matter what she said you wouldn't like it. Got it.

Well, "kiddos" reinforces the impression I have of her as disingenuous. If she used a word like "children" that would feel more honest to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The principal at our ES always says "kiddos" but never "kids" or "children" -- I don't get this. Is "kiddos" more PC or better school speak for some reason?

What's to get? It is an affectionate term for kids. "Children" is fine if you are living in the 50s and kids are baby goats.

Interesting. So "kiddos" is all we have left?

[Anonymous]

I don't mind the word "kiddo" but if people put it in the same neighborhood as "hubbie" or littles (or prego) I will stop using it.

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It is very unprofessional from the principal.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind the word "kiddo" but if people put it in the same neighborhood as "hubbie" or littles (or prego) I will stop using it.

“Littles” is gagworthy, and overlaps heavily with people whose whole identity is wrapped up in being a “boymom.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal at our ES always says "kiddos" but never "kids" or "children" -- I don't get this. Is "kiddos" more PC or better school speak for some reason?

What's to get? It is an affectionate term for kids. "Children" is fine if you are living in the 50s and kids are baby goats.

Yes, but it is coming from the principal, not some loved one. I want her to be a responsible, competent, and fair educator, not to fake affection for my children.

You need bigger problems. Lady.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal at our ES always says "kiddos" but never "kids" or "children" -- I don't get this. Is "kiddos" more PC or better school speak for some reason?

What's to get? It is an affectionate term for kids. "Children" is fine if you are living in the 50s and kids are baby goats.

Kids are not “goats.” Words have multiple meanings.

kid
A baby goat is called a kid. A female goat is called a doe, or a nanny goat, and a male goat is called a buck, or a Billy goat. 3. Goats will eat most any kind of vegetation. A baby goat is a kid. But a kid can also be human!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal at our ES always says "kiddos" but never "kids" or "children" -- I don't get this. Is "kiddos" more PC or better school speak for some reason?

What's to get? It is an affectionate term for kids. "Children" is fine if you are living in the 50s and kids are baby goats.

Interesting. So "kiddos" is all we have left?

Now where did I say that you can only use kiddo? I did not. Kiddo is perfectly acceptable as is "children" or "kid" Who the hell cares really. Our kids are getting shot and killed in schools and this is what op is focused on?

[Anonymous]

I'm with you op, kiddo gets under my skin when used to refer to a kid in the third person. I don't have the same issue when parents/grandparents talk to a kid using the term, but it grates on me when people refer to kids in conversation with other adults as kiddos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad, who died of Covid a year and a half ago, called me kiddo all my life. I’d call him and he’d a see with such love and excitement - “hey, kiddo”! I call my teen son kiddo now, because I can feel my dad with us when I do.

But different people have different associations. The word “littles” for kids is like nails on a chalkboard to me. That’s my problem, though. Call the people you love whatever makes you happy.

I'm sorry OP.

A good guy friend of mine used to call me kiddo when we were younger. Never bothered me and I always thought of it as a an affectionate, familial gesture, almost as if he was my big brother. That's the kind of friendship we have so it made sense. Now we're both married with kids and he's taken to calling my kids “kiddo." They think of him as an uncle. I'm not sure why people find it so offensive.

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A friend of mine uses "kiddos" to refer to her children. I sometimes want to ask her if she does it to make them sound cute and small and not rude and disrespectful, like they actually are.

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Same reason people here are obsessed with using the "ds/dd/dc" crap.

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It is cutesy and syrupy and inane. People using it do not sound very bright.

"So, I was telling my better half that it's bedtime for the littles, but the older kiddos can stay up another half hour. Since I've been preggo again I'm just so sleepy and hubby will have to take care of putting everyone to bed."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal at our ES always says "kiddos" but never "kids" or "children" -- I don't get this. Is "kiddos" more PC or better school speak for some reason?

What's to get? It is an affectionate term for kids. "Children" is fine if you are living in the 50s and kids are baby goats.

Kids are not “goats.” Words have multiple meanings.

kid
A baby goat is called a kid. A female goat is called a doe, or a nanny goat, and a male goat is called a buck, or a Billy goat. 3. Goats will eat most any kind of vegetation. A baby goat is a kid. But a kid can also be human!

Yes, we all know tut baby goats are kids. Thanks though.