Things we say to children that make no sense

[Justgivemethebrie]

I have 19 month old ds and he is at that stage of coming into the bathroom with me still, pottering until I'm ready to leave. Earlier, I was getting him to help and asked him to, 'Pull the chain for mummy.' It got me thinking that I have not pulled a chain in a loo since my own childhood but was refering to pressing the flush.

Wondering if anyone says anything to their children that, when you think about it, doesn't really make sense this day and age? Do you continue saying it as it is normal to you or do you change it so it makes more sense in today's world?

I am sure there are other things that I say to him that are about 20 years out of date!

I said to the kids that I was going to “tape that programme so I can watch it later” and my youngest said “tape what to where now”!!

We still tape programmes despite not having a vcr for about 15 years

My Nanna still listens to “the wireless” but she can say that as she’s over 90!

Dial telephone numbers, I'm sure most under 20s have never seen a rotary phone

I still say I like the tape at work, meaning the music

Hanging up the phone!

Hanging up and picking up the phone.

Paying with card or using a store card when it's really a tap of the phone or a QR code.

Not so much say, as do. The phone gesture, something like this 🤙 beside your cheek. It's been years since phones have had curved handsets with transmitter in front of your mouth and receiver over your ears.

Guilty of all of these, particularly tape this programme!

Roll down the window!

I mentioned having a white elephant stall at a fundraising village fayre and no one has a clue what I was on about

When popping into my neighbours I say to the kids I’m just popping over the road. They ask every time why I say that as we live on a terrace street and there’s no road down the middle

@UpHillandDownAle

I mentioned having a white elephant stall at a fundraising village fayre and no one has a clue what I was on about

I admit, I've just done a quick Google on this and have learnt something new today!

My mum has a "cupboard under the stairs" even though my parents moved to a bungalow 20 years ago. Confused my kids no end until they got used to it!

When dd1 was about 18 months old she had a picture book, the sort with a page of vegetables, a page of clothes, a page of vehicles and so on.
The picture of a phone was an old fashioned one with a dial and the train picture was a steam train. This book was bought in 2015!

I dont get why you'd say "popping over the road" to mean adjacent neighbours?

Not quite the same but definiteky nonsense "eat the crusts to make your hair curly."

I still call the cinema the pictures, family find this hilarious, even my Nan!

We have a toilet with a chain. But I didn’t as a child, so I’d say “flush the toilet” rather than “pull the chain”.

I find it odd that the symbol for ‘save’ is still a floppy disk. I don’t think either of my teenagers have ever come across a floppy disk.

Incidentally, teenagers mime ‘phone’ differently to adults. They hold up a flat palm to their ear. Because they’ve grown up with mobiles.

Mine dc don't understand why I cant fast forward rewind or pause the radio. 🙈🤯. Arguments everytime we are in the car.

Trying to explain to dd why we can’t pause or rewind the tv at granny’s house because we normally watch everything on catch up at home

My dc always roll their eyes and correct me when I tell them to wash their teeth or put their washing in the bin. Neither of these make any sense in any context but I still say them 👀

Told my DDs they were “skating on thin ice” the other day. They looked at the floor then at me as if I had gone bonkers.
Also have previously had to explain that we don’t actually peel our eyes.

Miming putting a camera up to your eye to look through the viewfinder. I haven’t taken a photo like that for at least 10 years. And I suppose also the camera click noise that the phone makes- completely pointless!

@TheRebelle

Trying to explain to dd why we can’t pause or rewind the tv at granny’s house because we normally watch everything on catch up at home

"Rewind the TV"

Exactly