IMO -- calling kids --- whoever looks after them at home -...

IMO -- calling kids --- whoever looks after them at home -


'Parent' -- rather than using the term 'mum' or 'dad' or 'mother or father'

certainly in conversations with kids one doesn't know -


I think there's a hell of a lot of good in that -


there's heaps and heaps and heaps of kids out there who are in single parent families for lots of reasons --

deaths, divorce - you name it.


Imagine a kid whose mother died a year or so back from breast cancer - something that's not exactly uncommon in young others --

then, some bonehead is talking to the kid and innocently says -

'oh, maybe ask your mum what she thinks?'



how's that one going to go down???????????


whereas - asking 'oh, maybe ask your parent what they think?'


ok - you could still create great pain - if the kids parents were killed in a car crash - but, you've minimised the risk greatly


If you could find a better word in common language that people were comfortable with -------- then - you would drop the risk to zero



it's actually not that bad an idea at all