to refuse to let DD send this letter

[MmeLindt]

unless she corrects it.

"Dear

me having a greit time but me not happy ven you not here... "

because she and her friends have a strange habit of saying "me" instead of "I".

I am not bothered about the spelling mistakes but "me happy" "me want" etc

Do you correct the spelling when your DC write cards?

Rollmops, I think the point is they know full well it's not correct grammar, they are doing it deliberately to create a private language. Just as kids have done throughout history. (And other people too.)

That could be why then StripeyMoon

MmeLindt, If it is a case of the way she is writing being a shorthand, an urban habit then so be it.

If that is the case then I would let her send it as it is, but on condition that she wrote another note showing me that she knows how it OUGHT to be written... proper spelling AND grammer...

YABU