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.

This is so funny.

My kids have also at 6 years old too started repeating this phrase and sometimes other variations of it. Not too long ago in the car I gave them a big telling off and informed them it would not be tolerated nor would any form of the word fuck!

Our 3 year old pipes up from the back seat in her sweet little voice, "Fuck sake"

Ooo I’ll have a look and add them to his playlist. He shows his little mates it when they come round and I was a bit worried they might take the piss but honestly they love it.

I’m hoping he will grow up to have a great career in advertising and not just be really gullible and buy everything he sees advertised.

DS2 used to say 'No thank you' to anything we told him:

Go to bed - No thank you
Brush your teeth - No thank you

Now he's 14 I've noticed that he uses the phrase "I'm well aware" to anything that he knows. He wouldn't just say, "Yes, I know" or something... It's always: "I'm well aware". Cracks me up.

My toddler gets the worst cases of outraged dignity and the other day it peaked when I had the cheek to put her T-shirt on her and she shrieked “NO, I’M A TEACHER!”

"Variety comes in backs of 8
But which one to choose just leaves me in a state!
I ask my friends to help me choose
Which ones to have
And which ones to lose!"

"I like the red stripe
He likes white
She likes the blue stripe but that's alright!
As you can see
Aqua fresh has all three!
3-in-1 protection for the family!"

Whenever we leave a shop (any shop) my 3 year old says "Thank you for shopping at Tescos" which is quite cute in Tesco but more awkward in Lidl.

This reminds me of when an old lady moved out of our way so we could get past at a bus stop. I said thank you and my son said loudly when we walked past ‘mummy! she didn’t say ‘you’re welcome!!’’

Mine calls them ralligators :)

My almost 3 year old must give double high fives and a boop on the nose when saying goodbye to people. When at home, once this ritual is completed he will slam the door on them (he has to slam it because he can’t push it shut yet, he’s not strong enough to push past the fringey thing round the doorframe), regardless of whether they were ready to walk away or not

I used to work with a little boy who was, sadly, non-verbal, but coming on in leaps and bounds when he went into foster care. He was absolutely delighted the day that I came out with, "Oopsy-daisy!" and walked around dropping things so that he could say, "Oopsy-daisy!" all day 😁

My daughter likes playing doctors and making up stories around various imaginary ailments . Yesterday teddy had eaten too much black liquorice and had to have his intestines removed, I ate too much pesto pasta and my lungs went green 🤣

When my son was little DH and I called him Darling or Darling Boy all the time. One day DH called him honey instead and we got the the response “I’m a darling, not a honey”.

DD loves the shows/rides (are those universal terms for the fairground or very Scottish?) and I once called her a “an adrenaline junkie” her reply? “mummy what’s a German monkey?” 😂

7 year old DD has started cuddling me really tight when I get home from work and saying “where have you been all my life” which I absolutely love! I had no idea where this came from until DH told me thats what he says to her when he picks her up from school everyday.

I also remember when she was about 3, her waving her hands around when a fly was buzzing around her head and muttering ‘bloody fly!’ She also used to say ‘bloody wind!’ Whenever it was too windy. I don’t know where those ones came from! 😂

When DD was about 4 she went through a stage where she wanted to be called her full name instead of the nickname version that we usually called her. One day at gymnastics her teacher called her the nickname, she corrected her with her full name, but added ‘but you can also call me darling’

My kids call vomiting 'vomitate'

Not sure why but it's just cute

DD3 used a lot of made up words for things, ahh bab for all gone started when she was tiny and I think she cottoned on that the older two found it cute so came up with more! Tickle splinters for pins and needles will always be a favourite.

Friends DD when around 2 or 3 was obsessed with the local taxi company’s jingle on the radio, which included the phone number, she was always singing it, we joked if we’re ever stuck for a ride, we’ll be shouting for her to sing her song so we can get the number.

DGS (5) says wasps are zombie bees.

DD11 will ask me to 'search it up' if she wants something looking up online. It makes her sound like an 90 year old lady who's never had direct contact with the internet.

DS4 has a weird knack for recognising places and directions, he only has to go somewhere once and he'll remember the place/way for all eternity.

DS3 likes to jauntily add "mi'darlin'!" to the end of his sentences, or will sometimes drop an unexpected "mate" at the end instead. It kills me 😂

When he was about 3, DS had lots of phrases that made him sound like an OAP.

My favourite was if we went for a walk and passed a park bench, he’d say, ‘Think it’s time for a little sit-down,’ then he’d hop up, complete with an ‘Oof!’ noise before then remarking how lovely said nice-sit-down was.

it was SO cute!!

This thread is the cutest!

search it up has replaced "Google it" amongst the yoofs

That's adorable.

Snot is called "snout" which makes more sense really.

So sweet ...

At her piano lessons, when Dd was 5, she would stop playing, have a good giggle and looked very pleased with herself whenever she made a mistake, before carrying on.

Has it really! I'll have to eat my words to DD then