to never use 'baby talk'

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At swimming today with DS's. The woman in the next cubicle was getting her DD changed and saying things like "oh the wee bubba wubba, just you waiting till mummy gets you all cosy tosy in this fluffy wuffy towel".

My teeth are still itching, I have never spoken to my DS's like this - are they missing out on something?

Foolish is totally appropriate. I have another 4 years in a row after this one of either GCSE, AS or A levels. Yeefuckingha.

DD3's being sent up chimneys.

3Dolls NOW that I know what it is, I agree totally. But it took me about 6 weeks to get it!

I made up nonsense songs to my children too. And I'm sure I called chickens 'cluckclucks'.

I have, incidentally, two degrees in English. I am not entirely unacquainted with the spoken/written word. I just talked baby talk to my babies.

YABU, it's good for babies. SO I can't see the problem, I don't do it because it feels unatural but it isn't wrong.

oh, a barked shin occurs when you scrape it on a rough edge, say the uppermost pedal of one' youngest child's bike abandoned and forgotten in one's front garden

I don't call objects by the wrong name, but my DS does. For some reason he fixed on the sounds animals make instead of their names so calls monkeys 'ah ah', lions 'rah' and elephants 'braah' even though he can say the names correctly if he wanted to. Very annoying!

Thank you pamplemousee Barked Shin will now be part of my daily vocabulary.

In terms of SALT advice on this, it really depends what the advice relates to.

Some children will need to hear clear adult-like models as their particular issue requires this approach. Others benefit from "motherese" and babble/word play.

Different issues require different approaches.

Oh hell I babbled away relentlessly, bubba wubba'd, coochy coo'd, moo cows, gee-gee's, bot-bots, the lot.

Trying not to would have been like trying not to breathe.

None of them went to nursery not knowing what the correct words were or unable to communicate properly with others, and NONE of them will now shut the chuff up for five minutes.

If it's an example of loud parenting then I find it annoying to overhear, but I know I did it (not making up words or rhyming everything to form a nonsense word) in the sense of using a higher and lighter tone of voice and the sort of repetition that Festivalwidow employed. I also repeated their baby babble back to them more or less as accurately as I could.

However, somewhere along the line, DD1 got the idea that her chin was her 'chin chopper' and has held it against me ever since one fateful day in Kindergarten...