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

"The Little Marmalade" for "The Little Mermaid" is fantastic!

Pooter, which means computer. We all started using it, shame when ds2 stopped

Ds1 can't say animal, it's always aminal. He is 15

Ah, pooter. Mine said that. Adorable.

It's not DS anymore it's me. He is 11 now and when he was little we had saying like sockie pops and even now when he is getting ready for a day at secondary school I will say don't forget your sockie pops

I have to remind myself not to cut his bloody food up for him as well......my only defense is....fuck, I don't have one :)

my daughter is 13 and we still have fingersnails and toesnails. i was sad when she dropped 'efelant' and 'hippopopannus'.

We went to see a pantyline on Saturday, he meant pantomime .

My ds is 21 months and we have,

Slipperer for slipper
Ebit for elephant
Heh-ter for helicopter
Jumperer for jumper

It's just so adorable.

We have basketti instead of spaghetti, and her favourite place to go at the moment is OckDonalds. Wellies are puddleboots and her bike bell is a ringer. At Christmas we are flying to Irelander in a fly...I need to start writing these down.

my DS is 17. We still use his mispronunciations. We Have "Thank Bob" (Thank God)
"Nusually" (usually)
"Norman" (normal)
They are ingrained into our family vocabulary. It always makes me smile.

DD2 has many but my favourites are Uciforn for Unicorn and Bebrest for breakfast.

Cha-boon was balloon, now bawoon is balloon.
Butterfly was buffly for ages

It's v sweet. I model, but don't correct.

It makes me so sad that my niece can now say my name. I miss being auntie Jim

DS had an 'umzebra' to keep off the rain (confused from his flash cards I suspect) He'd put on his 'dressing down' and go to 'peep'. Oh and he had an 'elbone'.

He's 21, we still refer to these things now

My mispronounciations became family language too

Nit bit - biscuit
Baybole - polo
Rice peam - ice cream

Problem is, my parents now look after DS whilst I work and I've had to remind them to use the proper words!

DS (2) says:
Coc coc ter - helicopter
Me me - milk

And many others that I can't remember! Poor lad is juggling 2 languages too, so it's an added complication!

Forgot to say, lovely thread!

My niece used to say bungi for cucumber, and television singy for remote control!

When I nannied the little girl used to say her dad was working 'down sNouth' and coat hangers were hoat canners!

Our toddler's mispronunciations are spreading out into the whole family, rather than being corrected.

We now all say "hello-phone" for "telephone", for example. Much more expressive!

We had "ralligator" for radiator and "gobolina" for cucumber.

My favourite was the day she came home from nursery and announced that some of the children had "head lights" and everyone was talking about it.

I used to say 'roon' instead of room, 'Dangrad' instead of Grandad, and 'heab' instead of heave when I was pulling something heavy. We all still say 'heab'

Love these, my 2.9 yr olds current crop are:

Pumpets for crumpets, which she eats a lot of
Bandma and Bandpa for G'ma & G'pa
Yammo for piano, no idea why
Tops for tots, her room and nursery ("Mummy is it tops today?")
Toggers for toddlers, as above
And the one that cracks me up, is the many extra syllables in Humpty Dumpty....pronounced Hammerdiddy Dammerdiddy, for reasons passing understanding!

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We play eye spy with my dd1 who's 4. She says ' I spy with my lucky eye something begiggling with ...'

We find this hilarious. We correct her, but it doesn't work, meh!

My DS and mine favourite word at the moment is randangle rectangle

YANBU by the way

My daughter hates
"Nacheeee changing" ( nappy changing to you and I)

My DD (5) says 'hoppergrass' for 'grasshopper' and I can't bear to correct her.

I did have to correct 'cock' for 'clock' though.

"lellow melons" = "yellow lemons"