To have stopped my daughter going for a wee...

[Pavlovthecat]

She said "i'm going toilet"and then ran off. I called her back and said "you mean "I am going to the bathroom" ". And got her to repeat it bak before she could go.

Of course, bathroom, toilet, loo, whatever word you choose, but the poor expression of it shocked me!

AIBU?

[Pavlovthecat]

still but I did not make her guess, like you teacher did. She returned "yes mama?" I told her what she said, and what she should have said, she said "ok I am going to the bathroom" and skipped off without waiting for a reply. Bit different from be locked in a cupboard with no lights or proper bedding for such poor grammar.

Arith. DD would not have wet herself, she would simply have not returned until she had been if she needed to go right that second, then said "what did you want me for mama". I did not actually refuse her permission to take a wee. Like I said, bit of hyperbole there to demonstrate my point about her poor grammar.

[Pavlovthecat]

Threewheels is that slang for 'lazy speak'

[Pavlovthecat]

tut oh I do pick my battles. That was one if them. Quite easy too as she accepts being corrected quite happily from me. It's all pretty lighthearted you know, not really very serious stern talking to while she jumps up and down wetting herself.

[ThreeWheelsGood]

Uh, no, it's not in the least lazy. Your comments above about west country dialect clearly express you're prescriptive and anal about grammar in a Victorian ill-informed way.

Language is about communication, your DD successfully communicated her intent, YWBU.

[StillIRise]

It ciuld have been worse she could have txtd you.

gng tlet or something else indescribable and unreadable.

[zombieplanmum]

Really? Good lord

[Shelium]

It's a devonshire thing :(

Thankfully DD (aged 5) has not yet picked up on it, but all of her nursery staff and at least one of her teachers say "xx is going toilet".

It's just a matter of time until I do as you did OP - I DETEST the lazy speak.

[moogalicious]

My dm constantly corrected my speech when I was young. I hated it and it was completely unnecessary. I like my accent.

I don't let her do it to my dcs and it makes me cringe when I hear people do it to theirs.

[AmberLeaf]

I get the part about her missing out the 'to the' but, you are just as bad for correcting her to say bathroom instead of toilet/loo.

Calling it bathroom is unbelievably wanky.

[aldiwhore]

YABU. Right, grammatically, but VU.

She is SIX.

Don't worry, she will undoubtedly pick up good language from you over the course of her life without you needing to make her wait to wee/use the bathroom/piss her pants.

[Pavlovthecat]

three the way I describe the local dialect is pretty accurate. You can even get a book which helps you to understand it, I remember being very upset when someone first said 'lover' to me! Now I know it is meant affectionately, like 'dear'

[Pavlovthecat]

still what, with her iPhone? In the bathroom? I don't think so

[Pavlovthecat]

If it was Devonshire she would have said "gowen toilart". She did pronounce the 'g' so I should be grateful.

[AmberLeaf]

I hear it said lots in London too, def not a devon thing.

[Pavlovthecat]

moog the accent is fine. She can have a local accent with the correct words. I think living in the heart if our community she won't avoid the accent.

[DinosaursOnASpaceship]

I would say "I'm goin forra wee" but not infrint of my mother as she would clip me round the earhole.

[Pavlovthecat]

amber if I was actually American, like Dh is, and used the word bathroom for that reason, I would not know what wanky meant. I often have my American friends phoning me up just to call me a wanker, as they have no clue it is a Really Bad word in England. So, I guess I must be

[Pavlovthecat]

dino* see that is grammatically correct though isn't it? " i am going for a wee" very fast. If dd said that, no problem.

[moogalicious]

Unfortunately my accent involves alot of so called lazy speak!

Amberleaf, yes 'I'm going toilet' would be said in London. Or maybe 'I'm going to the bog'

Pavlov, there are more important things to worry about. Honestly.