ro feel Dh has crossed a line in poncetastic parenting?

[Northernlurker]

I almost can't bring myself to tell you what he's done.

Our school library has a foreign language section (secondary school) and they have El Grufalo

Google translate has a lot to answer for

DS would love the Gruffalo in Latin. It has to be done.

My poor DD and DS1 had a huge collection of poncetastic books.
I have kept some of the best.
Like 'Worker at TEN YEARS old' this is a super book about child slave labour aimed at the under 8s
Cant tell you how many books about the holocaust they had.

By the time I got to DC5 I just chuck a Vetch In the Night Garden Book and show him how to push the buttons.

Poor baby.
Mind you, DC4 likes to go to bed looking at medical dictionaries.

I used to play games with DDs in French

Playing "Guess Who?" in French is fab, but a tad embarrassing when they go to a freind's house and think they aren't playing it properly because they are asking the questions in English.

Disclaimer: DS is in Y5 and learning Latin, but retains a deep affection for the Gruffalo. I don't have a Latin-speaking toddler.

Very good! Ignore the grumps I think this has potential.

What else can we ponce up? I suggest:

The Tiger Who Popped By For Canapes
Room On The Dyson
We're Going On A Brie Hunt (In Waitrose)
The Somewhat Peckish Caterpillar
The Whale and the (Garlic) Escargot

When your DD grows up to encounter Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe she will have a massively confusing déjà vu experience.

I had a hugely poncetastic phrase when DD was a toddler and obsessed with car marques. I taught her to say "hello" to them all....in the appropriate languages. I even researched the Korean version for the Kias .

Only French?

Pah. Barely makes pontetastic. I was expecting Mandarin or Russian at least, perhaps with a smattering of Ancient Greek or Swahili for interest.

My 17 year old is fluent in Spanish because we did something similar with 'Funnybones'. It's a fabulous idea and loads of fun.

As for the teachers, let 'em think what they like!

I love Magritte and his pipe picture.

My gran taught me french songs when I was little. I wish I'd kept it up. learning a new language is a great idea. He's getting her interested early which is easier to learn.

Yabu to call in poncetastic, if a child hears or picks up on that it might put them off.

Let him do it.

He could set up a sideline business, bit like those Loeb editions of the Classics with the Greek / Latin on one page and the English translation on the other. Now, what would the English equivalent of a Tiger parent be? - A bulldog maybe?

I still have used to have Winnie the Pooh in Latin and read it to myself as a small child without understanding a word.

I've foisted a bit of Le Petit Prince onto DD but she wasn't impressed.

Room On The Dyson

ROARS

I want to know how you can be both at the supermarket and sat in a car in a traffic jam at the same time? And was it in Asda or Waitrose?

Stig of the Household Waste Recycling Centre

James and the Giant Kumquat

We got 'That's not my mermaid' in French from a supermarket on holiday. I liked the idea of the familiar format. DD (4) didn't get attached to it though.

Ponce Klaxon! She's currently more interested in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the illustrated children's Shakespeare Dh got for her last week .

I am MN proud and RL embarrassed that she can do the simplified dialogue from the beginning of the Peter Quince and Nick ( he he, he's called bottom, mummy) Bottom scene.

At my last school, AS English language students were asked to try to translate Dear Zoo from Russian - to learn about patterns in an unfamiliar alphabet and how small children learn letters through repetition of phrases. Or something. It was cool, anyway.

It would have been Waitrose She didn't say it at the supermarket. She said it in the traffic jam but it was fear of her saying it in the supermarket that caused me to consult Mumsnet.

What is very sweet is that she LOVES it. It's like the different language actually tickles her she giggles so much.

Re ponced up books:

Here's a little progidy, un, deux, trois......'

at Room on the Dyson
DS wandered round a shop with me on Sunday saying "excuse-moi". "merci" and "s'il-vous plait" to everyone. We were in poundland a bargain establishment ffs!

Each Fruit shoot, Greggs Sausage roll, Tea in bottle, Toddler with ears pierced

Utterly fab

How do rhyming books work in other languages?

Maybe I could get ds2 to swear in French(or teach him manners)
Educational welfare officer came out 2 weeks ago.BEARING IN MIND DS2 WANTS TO BE HOME EDDED AT THE MOMENT...When asked if he enjoyed being home edded he said 'no it's crap' and stuck his tongue out.He has never ever ever ever been this rude EVER.
iT MIGHT HAVE SOUNDED BETTER IN fRENCH (clutching at straws)
Sorry for hihjack NL

Sounds great to me. If DH wasn't asleep I'd get him to translate this post for me! Sometimes, DH only lets the DC speak French in the car - especially in France - would love to know what they are going on about as my limit in French McDonalds when they were little was along the lines of "avec vous le Ketchup s'il vous plait" - DH refused to ask for them .