To hate children that correct adults!

[englandsmistress]

My colleague brings her son (9) in to the office today. As they leave I say to him "Happy Christmas, I hope santa brings you the most brilliantest presents"
To which he says, as he rolls his eyes skyward, "it's 'most brilli-ANT'"

and tuts.

Little, shit. He's not even cute

Tee hee, pleased someone picked up on my 'deliberate' mistake in the title...

heh-hem

On reflection I think it rude to correct others full stop. Unless it's to a child during training of course... otherwise they'd run a muck.

I had a meeting with a women the other day who said 'pacific' in place of 'specific' no less than 5 times! I didn't correct her, my mother taught me it was rude..

I'd have been mortified if my kids had corrected you. I was taught it is rude and unnecessary. Agree you should have wished him a rubbishest Christmas EVA!

My dd corrects my French pronunciation all the time. She is 6, and does it with much eye-rolling. At her birthday party one of her school friends told me that my french was terrible. Cheers!

One of my young cousins does this sort of thing all of the time and it drives me mad.

He had an argument with me about what the sum of two sixes was - apparently his teacher who is older than me said it was seven and I'm stupid.

Unfortunately, his father hears him being a rude little snot and says nothing, so you can't really say anything to him.

YABU they just enjoy being clever at that age.

YABU.

Why is the child being rude? He probably spends his life being corrected, both at home and at school. It is a learned behaviour!

It is adults who make these artificial rules over what is rude and what isn't!

yeah and it's "amok" rather than "a muck"

P.S. I am not a child. Just very childish

I don't think it's an adult/child thing. I personally would teach my child that it is rude to correct poeple full stop as in adulthood it rude to correct someone IMO. It is much more polite to let it go then insist on being right all the time and you'll keep more friends that way

DD is very aware of how people speak (same age). I have taught her to 'keep it in her head' or she would probably be considered cheeky or rude too.

YABU.
Wot comedycentral and DingDongMaryBSonHigh said.

Father Christmas, not Santa (looks skywards, rolls eyes).

It has always been Santa here (in Scotland) Well for as long as I can remember. It is short for Santa Niclaus (sp?), i.e. Saint Nicholas.

My DS corrects me when I'm trying to spell something out that isn't entirely suitable for little ears - he also rats me out ALL the time to other more sensible parents... "Oh sorry little Tarquin, I forgot you were there, didn't mean to swear" - "Don't worry, I have heard them ALL before, mummy has no self control.... just look at her now, stuffing herself with chocolate cake - I keep telling her that it's a moment on the lips...."
little fucker!

(He isn't actually called Tarquin!)

Both my DCs (3 and 5) correct me and anyone else all the time. Tis rather moritfying. My friends just sort of roll their eyes indulgently now.

Think it is less horrible when a 3 or 5 year old does it though oops can be quite cute actually. Totally not the same as a 9 year old doing it!

YANBU

Ds went through a phase of doing this.

I squashed him hard.

yanbu.

YANBU. He sounds like a smug little git.

Oh god

DS (3) corrects us ALL the time. He is often wrong but he still gets on a VERY high horse about it.

I have tried to stop it, but he doesn't really understand the verb "to correct" yet so it's difficult to explain ...

Hopefully before he starts school I can train him out of it. I really don't want him making a first impression of Precocious Little Brat.

I too agree that it's best to teach children that it's rude to correct anyone, whether an adult or a child.

I was walking to school in the snow a couple of weeks ago with DD2, and DS was in the buggy. A car pulled up at the pavement and a mum and daughter got out; the girl, aged 4 or 5 shouted at me "DON'T run in the snow, you will fall". Her mum didn't say anything to her. My 6 year old DD does do things like that, and is bossy at times, but in a situation like that I would tell her that it was rude to speak to someone, especially a grown up who wasn't even running in the first place, like that.

@ CerealOffender

YANBU
My DS has a 'friend' who always corrects me, questions my parenting choices and tells me EXACTLY what he thinks of my cooking. He's very difficult to like at times.

LittleYellow, I wouldn't invite a child like that round anymore. He sounds vile!