He shot her a smirk from over his shoulder as he fiddled with the gas knob, ‘And I believe I told you, cariad, that that was an option unavailable to you.’
‘Hello cariad,’ he said to his daughter, ‘your mother has just been praying for you.’
I never refer to them as ‘the kids’ or ‘my babies’ and although I do use pet names such as honey, babes, cariad and chickpea, I do the same with the humans in my life.