when did everyone start calling kids "littles?"
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Anonymous
| Same people that call their husband "hubby" or "hubs". I've heard this on Instagram. They'll say "my oldest little", "my youngest little", "my littles", things like that. They also say "kinder" instead of "kindergarten" and go on and on about how their "hubby" and "littles" make them better than everyone. I'm not a mom so I'm definitely not a mom blogger but I like essential oils and lots of people who sell them are moms and use these terms. It just makes me feel annoyed. |
Anonymous
| My friend from North Carolina uses the term and it's really endearing when she does, so I like it. |
Anonymous
| None of the terms mentioned previously bother me. I use some myself and would never say others. The thing that does bother me is spouses who publicly refer to each other as mommy and daddy without the kids present or in a non-child related context. That just weirds me out. |
Anonymous
Car Seats for the Littles is my favorite group for low key mommy drama on FB, lol. |
Anonymous
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I call my son "little" the way I say "buddy" or "little boy." As in "Good morning, little." "Hey, little! Did you have fun today?" I don't think I've ever referred to him as "the little" to other people.
I do not say "hubby," "nursling" (I exclusively formula fed from birth anyway) or the other things people are listing that go along with using "little." I do not have a blog. |
Anonymous
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Irritating.
When I'm talking about my younger kids, I will sometimes say "the little ones". Why make an adjective into a noun? We already have lots of nouns in the English language. |
Anonymous
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I'm "crunchy" in lots of ways and I've never heard the term "littles". My first impression is that it doesn't sound intelligent and doesn't sound like something I'd like to start saying. Maybe it's a blogger thing, as someone said. There's a pretty strong subculture there.
You could be thinking about "littlies" (pron: little-ees). I think littlies sounds a lot cuter than littles. |
Anonymous
| Very irritating. I only starting hearing it when Mommy bloggers took off. |
Anonymous
ditto. I'm a mom of 4 with youngest twins and I also sometimes say littles instead of Mary and Johnny. Frankly, with 4 kids, I can barely get a full sentence out before someone is yelling over me, so I try to use as few words as possible. My voice is hoarse most of the time from overuse and repeating myself to my kids. Believe me, it's not a "crunchy" or elitist thing for most of the big families I know who say it. Its a survival thing so parents can save their voices. I have also become the mom who has to rattle off several kids names before my brain finds the right one. Luckily, on my job with civilized adults who don't scream all day long, I can speak in full coherent sentences. |
Anonymous
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I hate-
The Hubbo Little man (For a son) My friend refers to ALL children as 'Darling', 'Sweetheart' and 'Sweetie', drives me nuts. |
Anonymous
| DH has always used the term, littles. He grew up out West. I think it's cute! |
Anonymous
| The phrase "grates on my nerves", bothers me much more than the term "littles". |
Anonymous
| So many weird and annoying abbreviations/short hand terms for stuff surrounding kids. The two I find most annoying are when people abbreviate pregnant as "pg" (constantly misread as "pig") and when people refer to their pediatrician as their "pedi." Makes me think of pedophile. |
Anonymous
| Big Brothers and Big Sisters have used "littles" to describe the little brothers and sisters for a long time. |
Anonymous
In the movie, Lorenzo's Oil, his mom always called him 'Darling' or 'Sweetheart' or 'My love'. His dad would call him 'Lorenzino'. Both parents mostly called him 'Lorenzo'. I'm glad Lorenzo's Oil was made in 1992, if it was a new movie... it'd be too modern for me. |