Timeline for Term of endearment for either parent?
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 20:59 | answer | added | Lauren F | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 19:46 | comment | added | SrJoven | Note that the individual terms of endearment from kids to parents vary greatly and the individual who might generally use the term mommy or daddy may not be of an age where he'd be encouraged to be online (certainly not encouraged to be online unsupervised or without parent approval) anyway. lovemyparent.com is adequate for this purpose. | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 21:58 | comment | added | StackOverflowed | If it helps, the reason I'm trying to come up with this term is for a website dealing with kids. You can do loveyoumommy.com or loveyoudaddy.com but... there's no real gender neutral term I can come up with. | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 13:44 | comment | added | ermanen | Why is my comment deleted? I mentioned "folks" first. | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 9:15 | answer | added | Lewis | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 19:16 | comment | added | SrJoven | I'm with Jim on this. Children might goof on or choose a particular variation of "Dad" or "Mom", but anything that doesn't designate acknowledgement of parent starts veering off of endearment into disinterest. Except for folks, ask yourself what you'd like your children to call you or your S.O. that varies from parent as generic. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 16:23 | comment | added | Canis Lupus | It wouldn't be very endearing to either of my parents if I referred to them in more generic terms. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 15:19 | answer | added | Brillig | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 15:19 | comment | added | Kevin Workman | I've also heard the term 'rents (short for parents). | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @StackOverflowed: Would you mind adding an example sentence where you'd like to use this word? | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 15:12 | comment | added | Dan Bron | "You got it, boss". | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 14:57 | comment | added | Jim | It's more playful, tongue-in-cheek than really endearing but I've often heard "parental units" used. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | SrJoven | I'm not sure any kid is generally going to use a gender-neutral term of endearment for his parent. He's not going to be ambiguous about which 'rent he's talking about. It's either of the parents, Dad, or Mom. (Unless same-sex household, then it's probably somewhat like papa-A or papa-B). I doubt I'd be in a place to be that informal to adults as an adult, either. Folks works, but you're not going to use it singularly which is why I didn't post as answer. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 14:36 | history | edited | IQAndreas |
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