To not correct my child's cute sayings

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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

Sweetkins = sequins ( love it ! )

Dangrad. This thread is killing me. I am too old to have a baby.

My ds used to love the film "Madacacca" (and we lived in France, where caca is poo)

He also converted the whole family to saying gogog for chocolate.

No Yanbu.
My dd used to say 'brownge' pronounced brown-j. Instead of brown. Now she's got a teddy still called 'brownge bear' but I get some hostile looks when people hear! So we've resorted to brown teddy :(

I've had 'windscreepers' (windscreen wipers), 'graceyard' (graveyard), 'ponkins/punkins' (pumpkins), and my absolute favourite 'fewman beams' (human beings).

My youngest is 5 so I keep a close ear out for his all the time!

Love these...

DD (nearly 3) says "jamamas" and for some unknown reasons calls tinned spaghetti "doggy sticks"

She got very annoyed with me for ages for not knowing what she was asking for until we cracked it.

When DD was two she was obsessed with a certain Disney film and kept asking to watch 'booze peas'. I had to point to every DVD in turn and say 'this one?' before we got to 'Beauty and the Beast'!

She also loved 'Monstinc'

My friend is now called Dewey-wa-wa (Juliana) as that's how ds pronounces her name

Soupcase was my fave

DS says 'nandad' for nan and grandad
He also says 'gok' instead of milk, no idea where that came from, he has had some amusing conversations with DM who tries to correct him! He's also perfectly capable of saying milk but chooses not to. I love it!

My 3 year old gets woken every morning by the 'clock of wake-up" and informed me this morning thqt he needed a wollerpan for his playdough

Yanbu. I was the same...they'll learn the proper words in the end but in the meantime smile at the cuteness!

My DS is 5 now but still has a few mispronounciations. He says "Wet's go" instead of "let's go". He also adds random 'ed' on words...I watcheded tv, I catcheded a ball, I walkeded to school. I do correct him more now (although not Wet's go...I love it too much!) but not when they're really little.

DS used to say 'I need a little piece of quiet' instead of peace and quiet. I was sad when he corrected that one...I loved it!

ah yes and Wet Soup for when he went in the sea. We still call then wetsoups

Leave them be! They die out soon enough!

DD used to have a collective noun for her (French) paternal grandparents whom she only ever saw together. Rather than calling them "Papinou" and "Maminou", she called them collectively "Paminou". And her brothers, who are called Alexandre and Guillaume, she would call collectively "Miaume".

Nandad
Sammidge is ham as all sandwiches are ham
Katie-pillar
Bulla flies

This too will sadly pass.....

These are simply adorable, love the idea of writing them all down.

DS1's best are yayok for yoghurt, bappy for nappy and his dummy was his mama when he was under 2!

Ds2 is 22 months so his vocab is exploding, we have cuuuugggle!! for cuddle, I am his mee-mee and not his mummy, ninner is dinner and accompanied by banging his plates on the side demanding his food!

My brother called the remote the fat controller and 25 years on my parents still call it that!

At the moment, Dd doesn't say much, she's only 1. However one of her favourite words, that she shouts out randomly, is 'sit' - pronounced with a sh instead of the s!

When DS2 was younger he used to ask for 'bitdits' rather than biscuits. He also couldn't pronounce his 'g' or 'c' until about six months ago, so I'd get asked to 'snuddle him in' at bedtime.

DD is 29 months and we have:

Muggy puggles for muddy puddles
Daddylegs for Daddy long legs
Itob for ipod
Tumbly tops for tumble tots

DS2 is 7 but has autism and severe speech delay, he has some adorable ones:

Pombleberries for pomegranate seeds
Booblies for blueberries
Bumbum bee for bumble bee

I think I'm going to start a little notebook too.

Lovely thread, have had a right giggle at some of these!

Pinkewter (computer)
Blanklet (blanket)
Look aftering (looking after)
Abuzz (above)
Biggering (getting bigger)
Snots (knots)

Squarecrows :)

Before ds went to school he liked the alphabet song but sang it as -

A B C D E F G H I J K LEMON LEMON P - OUCH!

We had a whole bunch of lions - railway lions, washing lions, the imagery was lovely. And there was the girl who lived in oscillation on a Scottish farm (isolation) and the 'saints and deposits' courtesy of Mary Poppins film lyrics (all around the cathedral the saints and apostles), after which Daddy learned to ask for the context before embarking on a detailed explanation and being told he was silly. And then for some reason 'boiled owl and Marengo' (lemon meringue pie).

However my mother's parents called her 'baa' her entire life, as that was all she could say of Elizabeth as a toddler, and it stuck.

DD1 used to say "kitzer-tisher". That was conditioner.

Also "Off we go through the mookinat-snack". No idea what that was.

She would say "gah" for get up, and "moh?" for "Could I have something to eat?" (I guess this was "more?".)

Also, we had "Cheeky bottom" for a fart, which we still use sometimes. (DD1 is 14.)

I always understood that correcting them is counterproductive - they are communicating, and that is the point of speech. But, it is important to speak correctly to them, so they learn eventually. What is cute as a toddler might be very embarrassing said by a 4yo at school.