when did everyone start calling kids "littles?"
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Anonymous
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Here in Tennessee, we always said "young'uns" (Young ones).
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Anonymous
| I watched a movie that was made in 2008, they said "Littles" talking about kids and "Bigs" talking about adults. It was funny. ? |
Anonymous
| Suspect you made this up. |
Anonymous
| Imagine that ... someone doesn't like what others say or do. We must be humans. LOL |
Anonymous
Thanks for the random bump of an 8 year old thread. Lol. Those kids aren’t so little any more. |
Anonymous
| It's not really any more annoying than the dc/ds/dd nonsense. |
Anonymous
| Hate it. So ridiculously cutesy coming out of an adult woman's mouth. It has big mommy blogger energy. |
Anonymous
I don't mind "littles" or "kiddos" or whatever people want to call their kids. It s term of endearment. And also don't mind DC/DS/DD/DH/DW if you are on a message board there that is the standard shorthand. I always crack up when I encounter it elsewhere because it's a telltale sign the writer spend a little too much time on boards like this. It's a weird abbreviation (who ever refers to their husband or child as "Dear ---" outside of these abbreviations? It's silly) and I can only imagine that when people randomly encounter it in an email or on a neighborhood listserve and they aren't familiar, it must look so weird. I also hate the term "hubby" but recognize that's probably my own weird bugaboo. |
Anonymous
| Yes I hate this. Never heard until we moved a few years ago. It was being used heavily with the MLM crowd who invite you over for some “sips” and “savories”. |
Anonymous
| Not everyone. In my circle that term would produce defensive projectile vomiting to drive the twee parent far away. |
Anonymous
| It bugs me. It also bugs me to hear the word "little" in degrees of comparison. Like, "the littlest kids". Littler? TF. Like the word "youngest" doesn't do it anymore? |
Anonymous
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Littles and kiddos are very annoying to me. ILs are out of Iowa. It is different in use than the big-little designation. Also find referring to oneself as "mama" constantly very annoying.
Part of it may be frequency. Think 30+ times in under a half hour. |
Anonymous
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I have never heard this term.
Is the subReddit moderator claiming that this is what Hilaria Baldwin calls her kids? Oh no, she is nutso!!! |
Anonymous
I grew up in a family with four kids and the older two were always called "the big kids" and the younger two "the little kids." Always. Even when we were in college. I was one of the "little" kids and my younger brother and I definitely got treated as sort of permanently young. I also think my older siblings felt like they had to be prematurely adult in a way that wasn't great for them. It was not a healthy way to think about different family members. |
Anonymous
| Right around the time someone decided to say "kiddo" instead of child or kid. Sets my teeth on edge. |