It's in a few books I've read.

We Were Liars, is one ...

Anonymous wrote:I've only heard it in reference to dominate/submissive sexual relationships. The dom. often uses "little" or "kitten" as a pet name. So I see ball gag & handcuffs when I hear "my little"

YOU WIN. I fucking love you.

I HATE IT....and it really is overused by the crunchy sect. Ever heard of that FB group "Carseats for the Littles"? <barf>

I don't say this and don't plan to.

Anonymous wrote:I would bet large sums that 99% of the women who use the term 'littles' do not hold a professional job.

LOL!! So twee and obnoxious.

I hear the term on the internet often. For example, there is a "Feeding the Littles" Facebook group. But I hardly ever hear it in IRL. I agree it's annoying.

My friend uses it but that's because she has two college-age kids and two elementary school-aged kids so she refers to the younger ones as the littles when she talks about them.

Yes, it does go along with terms like "the hubs" and "amazeballs". The people I know who use the term "the littles" tend to be from flyover country.

A guy friend of mine called our dogs the littles, and now we just extended it to our kids too. So lils are the dogs and kids as a group for us. No idea why really.

I don't think I've ever said "littles" out loud, but I've written it when I've been too lazy to type out little ones. I would use it to mean babies and toddlers.

I don't personally use any of these terms, but in my experience, littles/nursling/mama are used in "crunchy" circles, while preggo/preggers/hubby/hubs are used by the hipster crowd. I'm not bothered by the first set of words (I think nursling is sweet), but I find the second set annoying and cringe-worthy.

I think people think it sounds sophisticated. The people I know who do use "littles" are generally pretentious. You know...like those who say things like "bloody hell", "cheers!" and "bloke" but are from Arkansas.

Anonymous wrote:I would bet large sums that 99% of the women who use the term 'littles' do not hold a professional job.

I've mostly heard it from early-30s professional friends with no kids who are asking me about my children. As in "How are the littles?" It doesn't bother me at all, but I would never use the word myself.

Anonymous wrote:It reminds me of Kate Gosselin! She ALWAYS referenced to the sextuplets as "the littles". So annoying! Anything to keep them marketable

She never called them that. I watched just about every episode of jon&skate plus 8 and kate plus 8 and she's never called them that. She calls them the little KIDS. I would remember if she called them the littles bc it would annoy me.

Can't stop the Littles cuz the Littles don't stop!