Yeah, now that you mention it, I do think it's in Scarecrow. It might be in Something Wicked too, during the flashback. It works as parent to child.
**There is only, what? 4 years between them? So many stories have Dean as Sam's sole care giver and yet I can't see a 4 and a half year old being that proficient with baby feeding and changing....one step too far if you ask me.**
Well, there's four years between me and my youngest sister (with two others inbetween). I remember helping my mother change diapers, and showing my father how to do it (once!) when I was pretty little. I don't think that it would...or could be a regular thing. However, on family outings, I usually did get put in charge of one sister ("make sure you hold Kelly's hand") fairly often, and I had the worst time getting my sisters to see me as a person their age rather than someone who would tell them what to do (or narc them out) when we got to jr high/high school, so I can actually see Sam thinking of Dean as a parent-type substitute. I still don't think he would have used "kiddo" though, because it's not a kid-to-kid thing. Unless you're *trying* to belittle a younger sibling in an annoying fashion. It's not an absent-minded substitute for a sibling's name.
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Date: 2007-06-23 10:25 pm (UTC)**There is only, what? 4 years between them? So many stories have Dean as Sam's sole care giver and yet I can't see a 4 and a half year old being that proficient with baby feeding and changing....one step too far if you ask me.**
Well, there's four years between me and my youngest sister (with two others inbetween). I remember helping my mother change diapers, and showing my father how to do it (once!) when I was pretty little. I don't think that it would...or could be a regular thing. However, on family outings, I usually did get put in charge of one sister ("make sure you hold Kelly's hand") fairly often, and I had the worst time getting my sisters to see me as a person their age rather than someone who would tell them what to do (or narc them out) when we got to jr high/high school, so I can actually see Sam thinking of Dean as a parent-type substitute. I still don't think he would have used "kiddo" though, because it's not a kid-to-kid thing. Unless you're *trying* to belittle a younger sibling in an annoying fashion. It's not an absent-minded substitute for a sibling's name.