8th grader (13M) here, the other student (12M) is in 7th. For anonymity he will be N

N is a new student at my school and as a part of the student government, I was ordered to sit next to him during lunch in the beginning of the year. We both hit it off pretty well.

Before, occasionally   as a joke I call him “kiddo” since I’m older. It started infrequently but it’s increasingly higher in the number of times I’ve called him that, to almost practically every time we talk/text each other

Usually he doesn’t care but sometimes I see him feeling uncomfortable about me calling him that. 

So Reddit, AITA?

