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Do you call college students ‘kids’?

Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:30 am
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
1555 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:30 am
What an odd topic for PT.

Not really. Manipulation of the language is the #1 tool of people trying to manipulate you. (‘Safe and effective’)

Are 18-22 year old people still children or not?

Read up on historical figures and how young most of them were when they were accomplishing things.

Posted by Sizzle_DAWG
Sanford Stadium
Member since Jan 2024
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Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:30 am to
No, but they call me “sir” and I’m only in my mid 30’s lol
Posted by BestBanker
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:31 am to

This post was edited on 8/2/25 at 9:39 am
Posted by RohanGonzales
Member since Apr 2024
7677 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:32 am to
I call people up to mid 30's kids.
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
31203 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:38 am to
Don’t really call people kids but I still call women into their 40s a girl though for some reason
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
79622 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:38 am to
The extension of "childhood" is a recent cultural phenomenon in the U. S.

Under Obamacare "children" are covered through age 26.

But a hundred years ago our great grandparents were getting married, working and starting families in their mid-teens.
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
1555 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:47 am to
quote:

Under Obamacare "children" are covered through age 26.


I remember the first time I read the term ‘adult children’.
Posted by ole man
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
16502 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:51 am to
What real real life experinces have they had yet.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 8:57 am to
19 is still a kid. Times are different.
Posted by KCSilverTiger
KCMO
Member since Sep 2022
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Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:03 am to
Pretty much anyone I've ever heard talk about college athletes calls them kids, myself included.
Posted by BamaChemE
Midland, TX
Member since Feb 2012
7482 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:07 am to
Yes, because I have to teach them and most have the responsibility of a ten year old.
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
14234 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:10 am to
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
27779 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:21 am to
I prefer the term chirren.
Posted by Tigergreg
Metairie
Member since Feb 2005
24402 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:31 am to
It all depends on a person's perspective in relation to their own age.
Posted by Nevada_Tiger
Las Veags
Member since Jan 2025
277 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:32 am to
I call them quasi adults. They have some of the benefits and privileges of being an adult but not yet fully independent.
Posted by rileytiger
Surfing The Gulf of America
Member since Feb 2007
3924 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:34 am to
Children up to age 26. That is the number parents can claim their kids on insurance. Government says so y’all are kids under law.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116606 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:36 am to
There used to be some elderly Karens who bitched about calling any young human a kid. They said: 'It's a child not a goat.'
Posted by Barstools
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2016
11166 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:49 am to
Yes, they are kids. Their brains aren't fully developed and they are immature. Seems like a kid me.
This post was edited on 7/26/25 at 10:42 am
Posted by armtackledawg
Member since Aug 2017
14099 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:52 am to
They recently found a dozen or so soldiers buried at the Battle of Camden. Most were Continentals. Over half of them were 15-20 years old. Think about that.

That is who won the Revolutionary War
Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
27968 posts
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:53 am to
I have 2 in colllege currently so I do.
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