How *Posh* /old fashioned is your dc?

[jellybrain]

DD received a lovely tea set for her birthday yesterday. When DH asked where we should keep it she replied " in the parlour".

...and no before you ask we don't have such a room in our house.

[priceyp]

We have just had spur of the moment take away pizza for tea, my ds1 (3) jumped up and ran into the kitchen to get "knives and sporks" for everyone!
Prob not funny if you're posh and usually eat pizza with knive and fork!

[morningpaper]

My DD is always saying things like "He's a jolly old fellow!" about pretty birds etc.

[Pruners]

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[savoycabbage]

I was waiting to see the doctor this morning my dd was playing with the play kitchen. An old lady asked her if she was making a cup of tea and she piped ' No, there's no teapot in this kitchen so I simply can't'. I honestly thought I was going to get my head kicked in.

[noddyholder]

My ds speaks like prince charles and looks like kurt cobain weirdo!

[mummyloveslucy]

My 3 year old daughters says:

How are you today my deer ?

I'd love a cup of tea.

Oh Mummy, I doo love you.

She ALWAYS uses a nife and fork, even for pizza. She is just very lady like really. I have always insisted on good manners. If someone askes her how she is, she replies "I'm very well thank you".
I think it's lovely. I can't help thinking how blunt it sounds when children reply "fine!".

[BayeauxT]

My 3yo DD says "how do you do" when she meets people (my fault for doing an Eliza Doolittle on her which she's too little to realise is meant to be ironic...)

[bluegreysky]

lol at this thread esp,"He's a jolly old fellow!" about pretty birds
AND

'there's no teapot in this kitchen so I simply can't'.

[ja9]

i taught a lovely (posh) boy who informed me is little brother's first word was 'shan't'!

[nancy75]

my 3 year old dd's favourite phrase at the moment is "oh my goodness gracious"
yesterday - oh my goodness gracious me what a sunny day!
my brother takes the piss at how posh she is - we are from south london and have the accent to go with it!
we cant work out if she is really posh or just a 90 year old in disguise

[DumbledoresGirl]

When my dss were 5 and 4, they met some friends of my in laws and spontaneously took the initiative to shake hands with them. I don't know where they got that from.

Ds2 used to say "What a dismal day!" when he was about 3ish but I know he got that from a Postman Pat video he used to watch. Still, it threw me the first time he said it.

[bobblehat]

My ds (6) has a habit of saying 'i do beleive' as in 'I do believe there's a pink car over there, have you ever seen such a thing?' He sounds like Emily from Little Britain most of the time

This is on top of the fact we live in Yorkshire, but I'm a southerner so he also tends to copy my long vowels eg barth rather than bath. His friends all think he is more than slightly odd

[DettaJnr]

Finding this so amusing. I am from Dublin, lived in London for 13 years. DS born in London but moved back when he was 5 months. He ALWAYS spoke with an English accent until starting proper school at 5yrs3mnths (now 7yrs). He has lots of old English sayings and everyone assumed that he had lived in the UK far longer. How odd is that?

[BEAUTlFUL]

My 5yo DS "simply loves" things. "Oh Mummy, I simply love Batman."

[AtheneNoctua]

I overheard DH telling DD (5) last week that women don't sweat they glow. I of course burst out laughing and said, "not in the post Victorian era."

[Anchovy]

My DS (6) got a "Golden Leaf on the Treee of Achievement" for "courteous behaviour".

I said to the teacher that a 6 year old being courteous seemed very old fashioned and she said that she had thought about it and it seemed just the right word for him.