DIXIECAT
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The use of "that child" does not, in and of itself, show disdain or indifference. I've seen this discussed elsewhere on WS as possibly a "Southern" term of endearment. I'm from the South, and I distinctly remember calling my little boy "that baby" on occasion, and I definitely loved/love him very, very much (he is now 38)... and no one who knows us would have ever doubted that fact. It IS a "Southern" thing.... MOO