Why have we moved away from calling young people children and are now calling them kids?
Is a kid not a young goat?
Have children had any input into the change?
We live in an age when we are bending over backwards for apologising for what our ancestors did. Words are cheap.
Without any reference to children we have ‘christened’ them with an insulting name. And please I am not insulting young goats.
If I called an adult woman a girl she would rightly correct me.
It is demeaning to call children kids.
A campaign needs to be launched to stop calling children kids.
1 comment:
According to the OED’ “kid” refers to “ A child, esp. a young child. (Originally low slang, but by the 19th cent. frequent in familiar speech.)” it dates the usage back to 1627. Is this really worth a blog post?
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