If all your kids are the same sex

[dottyblue]

Haha. "little terrors!"

Seriously though, they are "my boys".

[Deleted]

With strangers/acquaintances - my kids
With DH - the boys
With friends - my animals

[stephogirl]

Definitely depends on the day, but usually "the boys"

[tootsie]

My DD2 is still in utero, but I've already found myself referring to them as "my girls."

[sjh722]

Depends. I tend to say "my kids" more to people I don't know (like if I'm making small talk showing a house). I do say "my girls" or "the girls" a lot.

[dottyblue]

Jun 3, 2016 9:48:26 GMT -5 @starry said:

I normally say my girls but now I'm wondering if that's weird

I don't think it's weird at all.

DH does get huffy with me if I include him in the "my boys" designation though... LOL.  You don't have that problem.

[dcn]

Kids or boys.

[kershnic]

I go back and forth. When people call them "the girls" it annoys my wife. But my sister has twins boys and I have twin girls, so "the boys" and "the girls" is sort of inevitable I think. When we're talking to each other we usually say "the kids" or sometimes still "the babies."

[zarapipe]

I usually say "the girls"

[carolinagirl831]

I say my girls

[deo]

I think I mostly say "my boys". I haven't really paid attention.

[booboo173]

My boys

[karinothing]

I think I say my boys.

[Cicero]

The boys or to H "your sons". It's been a rough few weeks.

[thebreakfastclub]

I don't think anything is weird except when people do "my babies" all the time, and the kids are 10+.

[ijack]

"the girls"

[lynn07]

Generally, I refer to the older two as "the boys" to DH and "the big boys" to friends/family. DS3 is pretty much always referred to as "the baby" even though he's over a year now.

[yellowbrkrd]

The boys.

[DarcyLongfellow]

"the girls" pretty much exclusively. Both sets of grandparents do the same.

Remember that 90's movie Playing By Heart with a young Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, and Ryan Phillipe? A friend of mine was annoyed with that movie because she felt the "twist" (if you can call it that) was easy to guess because anyone with three daughters would refer to "the girls" and never to "the kids."

[laurenh]

I usually say my kids to people I don't know well and my/the girls to everyone else.

[eddy]

Always "the boys"

[scribellesam]

Usually "the boys." Occasionally "trouble one" and "trouble two" or "the tiny DHs" because they look so much like him when they're all together.

[dangerousduo]

I always say "the boys" or "my boys". This was instead of saying "the twins"

[lilac05]

Usually the boys or my boys.

[Marmee]

I am pretty sure I say "kids" mostly

[lala]

I always said the girls before my youngest was born, not weird at all. We still refer to them as that now when they're going somewhere the toddler isn't, etc.

[turtlegirl]

When we found out #3 was a girl DH was disappointed that he'd have to switch to saying "the kids" rather than "the boys".

[undecidedowl]

I say "the boys" but that frequently includes DH too.

[Deleted]

Hell I have two girls and 1 boy and for years before DS came we referred to them as the girls and then DS came and sometimes we still slip and say the girls. . Whoops. Poor DS is going to have a complex.

[egishere]

kids or the triplets