I still like the term parental unit that we used to use as a joke in middle school and high school. Did everyone else do that or was it just a my social circles thing?
Anyways telling the kids to go collect their parental units at the end of an event is a) funny b) gender neutral and c) just refers to the person currently doing your parenting
Also if you’re on joking terms with your parents “greetings, child” “greetings, parental unit” is a top tier greeting. Makes you sound like robot aliens.
I was raised by my grandparents and around middle school I started referring to them as “the parentals” because saying I had to ask my grandparents was to much to say every time and I got sick of explaining my situation
It was also just more fun to say “I’m calling my parentals”, and when I went low contact with them I started calling them the “ex-parentals”
