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

Dd used to say fuck for fork and still (at the age of 9) says mazagine.

Ds1 thinks on his brain and ds2 is just starting to talk and says mmmmmm for milk.

A friends son used to call me LaLa. It has stuck and he still calls me it now at 15.

I still say lots of my children's mispronounced words long after they've grown out of them - matato, sukermarket, obbies (for olives), and a few others. I am pretty tragic really.

Oh just thought of another, she used to call her art and crafts box 'Arthur craps'. Took us aggges to figure out what she was talking about

Schlobbob, you've reminded me that my DS called the remote control the fat controller too! Then it became just the fat control for years. He knows it's the remote control now but DH and I sometimes still call it the fat control!

DS 1 recently mastered "castle", except it came out as "arsh ool" a la Meet the Parents.

I miss some of DD's toddler ones, she is five now though and still comes out with some corkers

the only takeaways we get are Chinese or from our local Kebab shop, a charcoal grilled chicken shish kebab is her favourite takeaway, we have tried to explain that this is Turkish food, but she insists on calling it the 'English one' just because it isn't Chinese!

The First Aid area at her school is 'First Stage'

When she was small:

Strawberries were 'boodu's'
Crunch was pronounced 'cu*t' and was how she referred to lettuce
Yogurt was pronounced 'Logurt'

We have her on camera with the Crunch one for maximum teen humiliation

This thread is lovely and is reminding me of so much.

Bunglebees for bumblebees.
Snugs for slugs
She also says sniggle which is a word she made up and kind of means to wriggle over on the couch into a snuggle with us. I love it.

I think it's lovely...apart from when my toddler couldn't say blackcurrant. Shouting black cunt every time he wanted a drink was a bit embarrassing. We've progressed to black-cuwwint which is much less shameful in a cafe.
I just wish he'd liked orange juice.

Dd used to say kaych for haitch. I was sad when school knocked it out of her

She'd say teach other instead of each other

And a diffrenterday for a different today ie tomorrow or soon.

It's so sweet

Those things you hold over your head when it rains are still underbrellas in our house-dd is 16

We have fat controller for remote control, the rabbit comforter will remain named as 'Babbit'. They pluralise most things so chicken is chickens, garlic is garlics. I like 'shrooms' which is mushrooms and DS still hasn't mastered combine harvester, he calls it combine harmister.

We have "I dudnt" instead of " I didn't".

Com bears instead of Pom bears.

Lemon instead of his friend's name Lennon.

Dance-y instead of Darcy.

I am not going to correct, way too cute!

Dd1 used to ask for "hanuna ogrit" (another yoghurt).

Ds liked to eat "bikki" (biscuits).

The first time dd1 said "yoghurt" I cried!

Until DS was about 3, milk and cookies were "nork and dickdees"

We also had shampoo and "dishner," and international was "nishnal nashnal"

I prefer the less cute ones - ducks say 'fuck' apparently and chickens say 'cock'. I have a little sniggers whenever dd says 'the ducks are quacking' as sounds a lot like they were up to something else!

Oh and she also loves jumping on her tambourine in the garden instead of trampoline.

My little one has just started talking so we're just starting to get these cute pronunciations.

Piss / peas means police. Whenever we hear a siren there's loud shouts of "piss! Piiiissss!"

DD1 called strawberries lollyberries and we still do. (She had eaten countless strawberries - we live near berry growers/ do lots of pick your own etc - but the only lolly she had had was strawberry flavour)
DD2 (needed speech therapy) but she used to say 'h' instead of 's' so we went himming at the himming pool...and we still do ...
She just couldn't say 'f' at all - so we used to get her to say 'five funny fishfingers' (ive unny ish ingers)...none of this worried her and her speech is fine now (although lispy from losing her front teeth )
The only thing we don't still use is she couldn't say 'l' so the cat Lucky was Yucky and she got upset when the P1 teacher thought that was what the cat was actually called!

My ds first word was 'boogie'. It turned out eventually to mean SPOON. He also called coathangers 'sukydookies'. Go figure

My DS 4.11 has been singing the 12 days of Christmas and for some reason he just can't get 'a partridge in a pear tree' quite right.
So he sings very loudly and proudly 'and a par pear treeeeeeee'

I'm with you - unfortunately my DDs are old enough to pronounce everything correctly now.
Basgetty - spaghetti

and my favourite 'pissed' ears - as in Mollie's got pissed ears, when can I have pissed ears?

Forgot my favourite one of DD2s - DP worked shifts, if he got home before she was asleep and I heard him I used to say 'oh do you think that's a burglar? Cue cries of daddyyyyyy...
One day she said to me 'daddy is a bugger' ...took me a while to work out she meant! (Did have to work on stopping that one - worried about what other people might think! )

DD used to call butterflies 'butterpillars' and when she had a poo in her potty it was a 'ca doo' ' . Thing is, whenever I cooked a roast dinner she also called it 'ca doo'' Doesn't say much for my cooking

Yanbu - treasure these little moments.
I still love ds saying Farmer Christmas and dd saying "Mmm that was toolicious" instead of delicious.

It is cute and lovely,when they're just learning, but at the end of the day, when they are in school and trying to sound things out for spelling, if you haven't corrected the way the pronounce things it causes all sorts of problems.

I have several Year 3 and 4 in my phonics group who have enormous trouble with 'th' and 'f' sounds eg 'fankyou' ,'theaver' (feather) ' oth '(of),fink (think) fick and fin,( many,many more which my tired brain can't recall),but all because they haven't been corrected.They genuinely think that is how the words are said, and then proceed to write them in the same way.

We have been told that Ofsted expects us to correct wrong pronunciation and bad grammatical speech. So their 'northernisms' have to be corrected,in the same way as my southern accent has to be toned down when teaching certain sounds.