when did everyone start calling kids "littles?"

[Anonymous]

Same people who use preggers and baby bump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noticed my Mormon friends using the term, and then when they had older kids and babies- it became 'littles' and 'bigs'.
I think it started as a Mormon mom blog thing.

Incorrect. It goes back at least 500 years.

[Anonymous]

Never heard the term before

[Anonymous]

I think most of these are religious but not sure the religion is Mormon:

http://lifewithmylittles.blogspot.com

http://lovingmylittles.blogspot.com

http://myfourlittles.com

Lainey and the Littles....."Mama to Lainey (6) and the Littles, Anna Grace and Emily (4)...very blessed by my heavenly Father"

http://gaggleofgreens.blogspot.com

"Juicing an the Littles...." (But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord...."

http://hootsmomma.blogspot.com/2013/07/jucing-and-littles.html

etc etc etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I noticed my Mormon friends using the term, and then when they had older kids and babies- it became 'littles' and 'bigs'.
I think it started as a Mormon mom blog thing.

Incorrect. It goes back at least 500 years.

500 years you say. Are you the resident Sunday morning historian.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, I have 1 annoying friend who says this, and yes, she is "crunchy" in lots of ways.

Here is it used in a sentence "I'm so bummed I can't go on Susie's class field trip because of the littles!" (Her two younger children)

[Anonymous]

I have a family member who uses this term. She is one of those "everything looks perfect on the outside but is a mess in reality." Drives me crazy. I think people use this term, at least in this case, to make things sound perfect and put together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I have 1 annoying friend who says this, and yes, she is "crunchy" in lots of ways.

Here is it used in a sentence "I'm so bummed I can't go on Susie's class field trip because of the littles!" (Her two younger children)

Right. Exactly. And, you know, instead of making accomodations for the care of the "littles" by a surrogate so she could do the more important thing of chaperoning Susie's field trip (probably because the "littles" are being exclusively breast fed), she's going to whine about it. Loudly.

[Anonymous]

"Littles" is almost as bad as people who refer to their kids as "my minis." That drives me nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most of these are religious but not sure the religion is Mormon:

http://lifewithmylittles.blogspot.com

http://lovingmylittles.blogspot.com

http://myfourlittles.com

Lainey and the Littles....."Mama to Lainey (6) and the Littles, Anna Grace and Emily (4)...very blessed by my heavenly Father"

http://gaggleofgreens.blogspot.com

"Juicing an the Littles...." (But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord...."

http://hootsmomma.blogspot.com/2013/07/jucing-and-littles.html

etc etc etc

I think that only one of those is Mormon. (I'm not a Mormon.)

[Anonymous]

Hate this too. Along with "smalls".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I have 1 annoying friend who says this, and yes, she is "crunchy" in lots of ways.

Here is it used in a sentence "I'm so bummed I can't go on Susie's class field trip because of the littles!" (Her two younger children)

Right. Exactly. And, you know, instead of making accomodations for the care of the "littles" by a surrogate so she could do the more important thing of chaperoning Susie's field trip (probably because the "littles" are being exclusively breast fed), she's going to whine about it. Loudly.

Haha.. Yes, about the bf part.

[Anonymous]

I lived in Africa for many years and they call children there 'smalls'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in Africa for many years and they call children there 'smalls'

Everybody everywhere in all of Africa calls children "smalls"?

[Anonymous]

I have read this in a book recently - a novel. Struggling to remember what book though!