To not correct my child's cute sayings

[diamondsrforever]

People keep getting on at me for not teaching my 3yo ds to say "I" and not "my", we also have an "armbow" and not an "elbow" and tend to find things "hunder" the table rather than "under" I find all of these really cute and think as soon as they've gone I've got none of my baby left, aibu to not correct him every single time!!??? I like it!! What little things do all your little ones say that make u smile each time

I was a little bit gutted when my daughter started saying her 'r' sounds properly. Personally, I think wabbits are lovely animals.

I'm looking forward to DD starting to talk for all of these cute little sayings! Unless there's an actual speech impediment I think YANBU to enjoy it.

We have;

Washing mee mee
Radidator

We used to have Sah-ee for our dog Sammy, but she didn't say that one for very long

I love her mispronunciation's

I've got a notebook I've written all DDs mispronunciations / hilarious statements in - I don't want to forget them! YANBU

No, leave them, so cute! I try and write the classic ones down because they are is quickly forgotten when they stop...which they will, without you doing much.

Bragmatic, when did the wabbits thing stop? My dd does that and we don't correct her but DH is getting concerned

Yanbu

We have toy snores - toy stores
A new day of the week - nowsday
Dd - DVD

I miss those, dd used to have aminals, disonaurs, and wee wee instead of Henry (her toy elephant).
She still has some though even though she's 4, she calls centipedes centipeters for some reason which is v cute. And flamingos are fillamingoes.

Yanbu. Dd is 3.5 and still calls a maraca a macracker and a cotton bud a cotton bug

I don't think you have to correct him, you just have to make sure he hears it being said properly.

When we get dd ready for bed she puts on her "Jamamas" heart melts

We've have wower for shower but my favourite is byebyefly for butterfly.

Butterflies will always be byebyeflies for me now!

Sleep, a friend of mine is a speech therapist and she said the /r/ sound is usually the last to be mastered and really, when you think of the position your tongue has to be in, it's quite tricky. She told me that kids normally master it anywhere between the age of 4 and 7 (or maybe she said 8??).

Anyway, my daughter is 6 and a half and it's just come together for her in the last 3 months or so. She's not quite there yet, but almost.

I'm with woowoo - you don't need to correct him, but I think you should be using the real word yourself.

And yes - write them down!

She's making an effort at talking - correcting can come across as "you're doing it wrong". If you model speech (as you obviously have been doing or she wouldn't be talking) she will follow you - no need to point out "faults" that aren't faults at all but emergent communication.

I might copy the notebook idea, my DS has loads at the moment and I dread forgetting them.

If he falls, over he tells me he's hurt his trousers.
His elbow is his Elmo.
His toothbrush is his Brush Your Teeth and he specifically asks for his fluoride toothpaste.
He has 4 farmyard jigsaws: baa baa sheep, baa baa cows, baa baa chickens and a baa baa tractor.

He's also completely stumped if 2 people have the same name so after recently discovering his old Sophie the giraffe at the bottom of the toy box it's now called Sophia The First Giraffe.

My eldest used to ask for valinna ice cream. I was sad when she started saying it properly!

YANBU!

When I was learning to talk, I said loads of stuff "wrong". My parents thought it was adorable and still tell me about it! You don't hear adults saying things like that, so it's hardly going to harm them for life! My "mistakes" were:

Upstairs/Downstairs - utda, dutda.
Pasta - patta.
Cucumber - cucubumber
Escalator - essiecator.

My now 3 yo couldn't say L so everything was 'wook' and my favourite 'daddy wong wegs'

Ds is 7 and keeps trying to use the word "absolutely" but it comes out as aspobutely which always makes me laugh :)

Thanks Brag, DD is 5, so plenty if time then . She's been pretty disappointing on the mispronunciation front otherwise (perfectionist tendencies, her ). DS1 had loads of classics though and ds2 the occasional one.

Randall definitely get a notebook for the funny words and quotes. My eldest is 8 and when I look at it now I'm shocked at how much I'd forgotten about. I keep it hidden as I am planning on making a lovely photo album with quotes and stories for DH when the DC's are much older

DD (3) calls mayonnaise lemonaise! And asks to play in the front froom

My ds used to say sneep for sheep, snorts for shorts etc and glubs instead of gloves. I miss them they were cute.

My dd1 when she was 2 couldn't say kiss and replaced the I with a p.m. was funny till she told my great grandma she wanted a piss

k with a p, stupid auto correct

They learn the 'right' way oh too soon.

We still use some of our daughter's cute sayings as I liked them better than the proper word (weird because I'm a bit of a pedant about language stuff usually) but she now corrects us!

The only one we really tried to correct was the way she quacked - she would point at ducks and yell 'fuck fuck!' which was a bit embarassing sometimes but I even sort of missed that one when she learned to say quack instead.

YANBU

Dd (4) keeps asking me if things she's read about in books/seen on tv exist "in real land". I will never correct that one .

Love "byebyeflies" btw.