What funny little quirks do your children have?

[GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf]

Tell me a funny quirk your child has.

I’ll go first.
DS5 - Loves adverts. Obsessed with fun jungles, we showed him Auto glass repair, auto glass replace and he went wild. Bonus if you know any other jingles we can show him.
DD6 - Uses “old people” phrases. If you say “see you next week!” She will say “god willing”. She’s got this from my dad who thinks it’s the funniest thing ever.

They both have pretty strong Scottish accents because they’re Scottish but they say certain things in my English accent. Mainly things like “okie dokie” and “oh dear” because they’ve heard me say them so much. They also refer to people as “mush” because their grandad universally refers to everyone as mush.

I'm dying! 😭

My 4y will say, Mind if I join you? to sit beside me on the couch.
It sounds so grown up and polite.

DD2 is a stickler for manners. Everybody has to say please, thank you and you’re welcome around her, otherwise she’ll passive-aggressively shout YOURE WELCOME at you.

DS1 when he was small used to stand up and announce WELL THIS HAS BEEN LOVELY when he wanted to go. Learnt from his grandparents 🤣

Dd5 likes to make me cards, rainbows, unicorns, hearts, I love yous… she makes them out of random pieces of card so I end up with them made out of dog food boxes and all sorts.

My grandson calls a fly swat a bee smacker.. it makes me smile every time.

My 7 year old has started saying "Cheers babe" when I give her something.

How often does that come up in conversation?!🤣

He asks if he can play with the bee smacker. Tbh I don't let him smack bees with it..

That’s so cute! I love when kids just speak like adults or pick up on stuff like that I find it really funny. Worked with a few kids raised by their grandparents and they’re always my favourite.

My son is nearly 3 and has a language delay so can’t say much. But he’s started dramatically cheering like someone has scored a goal whenever he sees someone he likes. It’s doing wonders for my self esteem having somebody cheering every time I walk into the room. He’s also started doing it with his one to one at nursery which is how I knew he was finally settling there.

There is a vet near us with a large glass window into the waiting room. When my two were toddlers they used to call it the Doggy Shop

My mum and dad were sticklers for manners, please and thank you etc. I was about 2 and a half and we were in a cafe. There was an elderly couple in the next table. The man got up and left the table and apparently I said in a crystal clear voice “ mummy that man didn’t say, please may I leave the table”. Apparently my mum was trying to mime sorry but the man’s wife replied “ you’re quite right my dear, he didn’t, that was very rude oh him and I will be telling him off. “

I for one believe this should be a thing! We should all cheer when we see the people we like and perhaps ‘Boo’ the people we do not!

When my little boy was about 3, instead of asking ‘how old are you’ he would ask ‘what’s your number’. He asked EVERYONE! It was like having a tiny Joey Tribiani with you at all times! Check out ladies in supermarkets thought he was flirting with them, he was just asking how old they were!

My 2yr old loves watching TotsTV on YouTube. His French is getting very good. He shouts "No no no no no!" when he's upset/cross but the more irate he gets the more French he gets. He also says "non merci" instead of "no thank you".

As this seems.to be about funny little things they say, DS, aged about 2.5 started irritatedly saying "you wanker". It was mortifying and I wondered if perhaps he had turettes.

After a while, I realised every time he said it, a car hooter went in the background. It dawned that his dear papa, when driving, was banging the horn and saying "you wanker".

DH is still reminded, DIL is aware and DS has been told not to do it once the baby is born.

Ahaha I did similar with my dad’s colourful language at the football, but I didn’t understand what was going on so whenever I would see football on tv I’d just start shouting about the ref

DD went through a mercifully short phase at around 6 of muttering ‘fucks sake’ under her breath…just like her dad! Now at nearly 12 she sometimes randomly affects a sarf london/not-quite-cockney accent for reasons best known to herself.

OP, this is delightful.

I love this thread, im
laughing so much at some of these stories. I had a lovely three year old at work, who would say “what a palava” at things. And we’d have deep philosophical conversations, at 3am. When I’d sent mum off for break as child wouldn’t sleep. She was 3 going on 33 and still is like that!

my 2.5 year old calls the radiators ‘radi-heaters’ and it makes me so warm inside (pun intended lol)

My grandson age 4 tells me he goes to work not school, he also has a van and drives. He's a roofer at his work. He corrects anyone about the school thing. My ndn today asked him how school was today he replied Do you mean my work?

My 4 year old has taken to, in response to anything he doesn't want to hear (like please put your shoes on), putting his hand on his chest and gasping 'how dare you' like an American southern lady..

Ahahah! Funny, when I was at uni my mum and dad referred to it as “school” all the way up to masters. I’m a tutor now and my mum still asks “how was school?!” I gave up on correcting them around 2ed year of uni, but once she was on speaker phone and a room full of mates overheard which was a bit embarrassing. Got asked “how is school” by them for the rest of my degree.

Does he know any roofers or is this just what he’s decided he is?

My daughter refused to get off the bus until the driver said "you´re welcome" to her "thank you"

This is soooo funny 🤣