This inquiry centers on the use of endearment terms and affective markers (covering other address terms, and nonverbal calibration) in parent-child inter-generational dinnertime request sequences. The endearment terms recurrently used in request sequences (solely by the parents), signal both bother and social intimacy. Adults and children use distinct repertoires of affective means: the children used a series of nonverbal and nonvocal resources to show their affective stances. In addition, the parents had recourse to endearment terms, nicknames and diminutives, as lexical devices referring to close bonds in a context where social solidarity might be at stake. Whilst children's requests fix on a prompt action regarding food and food-linked activities, parental requests can be often examined as redressive actions, inspired by the child's (annoying) conduct.