2002 — Heidi Bratton, Making Peace with Motherhood… and Creating a Better You, Paulist Press (2002), →ISBN, page 172:
With baby #3 at school, I would only have two munchkins at home in the morning (Lucy, 3 1/2, and Benjamin, almost 2).
2002 — Tracy Hogg (with Melinda Blau), Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, Ballantine Books (2002), →ISBN, page 205:
I've found that if you don't have a definitive ending to a group, the moms continue to chat. Before you know it another ten or fifteen minutes have gone by, and the little munchkins start getting tired and cranky.
2004 — Stuart J. Altman, The Kidfixer Baby Book: An Easy-to-Use Guide to Your Baby's First Year, Ballantine Books (2004), →ISBN, page 4:
There an an awful lot of munckins out there with a pretty interesting variety of moms. And guess what? Not all of these parents are rocket scientists.
2006 — Michelle LaRowe, Nanny to the Rescue!: Straight Talk & Super Tips for Parenting in the Early Years, Thomas Nelson (2006), →ISBN, page 124:
Picture this: your child begins his first day of group childcare, and he is suddenly surrounded by other munchkins his age […]
2006 — Roberta Rehner Iversen & Annie Laurie Armstrong, Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families, Temple University Press (2006), →ISBN, page 68:
Within a month of exiting the intensive eighteen-month treatment program Isabell finally unites with Domingo and her two sons. As Isabell said, "I barely knew how to feed my own face and I ended up with these two little munchkins."
The focus needs to be, once again, on the children. If your ex is a liar or a promise breaker then you've no need to drive that into the munchkins' heads.
In her interview with investigators, the counselor denied making such derogatory statements but did acknowledge that, "while in a discussion regarding height requirements, that she said that if she ever had a fire she wouldn't want any little people or munchkins coming to her house," the report said.
1995 — Stephanie Comer, "Base Housing Helpful and Creative Challenge", The Fayetteville Observer, 7 September 1995:
As for storage space, well, most of the houses might have enough for a family of munchkins but not normal people.
It'll also have a keyboard configured for a munchkin[…]
2011 — Debora M. Coty, "Humor Thy Father and Mother", in Heavenly Humor for the Dieter's Soul: 75 Low-Cal Inspirational Readings, Barbour Publishing (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Maybe it was because I was a moose in a family of munchkins. Mama's father was of slight build, five feet nothing in height, yet taller than his four daughters and granddaughters. They were all tiny, toothpick people.
