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

My dd has started with 'mistmus' (father Christmas)
Amimals (animals)
Pwese..
tank yew..

I love it.

oh yy. fireman sam is manham.

oh .. and the doors on the bus go 'oh shat' (open and shut) best one yet.

My daughters favourite game is 'hide and sick'

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I forgot, a trolley is a tranny.
Really funny when you are at the supermarket and he wants to go see the trannies (he loves a trolley)

My daughter used to say hossiple for hospital, mazza-een for magazine, sank to for thank you and kick kick for quick quick (when crossing the road). They still make me smile whenever I'm reminded of them and she's 22 now!

Pasgetti bolonaise was one of my favourites.

My DS calls his belly button his billy buck tooth! He's always thought that's what it's called. I'll be a bit sad when he starts to call it a belly button!

My favourites from when my DCs were younger are:

Noondles for noodles
Eyebrowns for eyebrows
Forcehead for forehead

so close but just off, DD1 would argue that we were saying them wrong.

DD1 now almost 10, used to call Brussel sprouts "butter farts", have also kept a diary, it's hilarious to look back. DD2 18 months and just starting to speak real words, or her version of, calls her sister "shisha" that one might stick!

Cucumber was 'gumgum' for DS2. Now he's a bit older it's 'googum'. I will always think of cucumbers as gumgums now, even when he learns to say it properly

DS1 said 'He blew a strawberry at me' (he meant raspberry)

DS1 also used to call radiators 'radiadiators'

Makes me well up and go all tearful.

Wound a wiwell - Found a squirell
Babbit - Rabbit
Wunt Woom - as in (whiney voice) 'I want breakfast in the front room'! (to watch Peppa Pig )

Dandand - Grandad

I do understand where you are coming from, BUT IME if not addressed & corrected early enough it can actually hold them back in school -

IE: how can you ever expect them to be able to spell a word if the incorrect pronunciation is so ingrained into their speech that they can't actually say it properly

we have specertars (spectacles) the mote (remote control) ingrained in our family speech , we watch bideos, and at christmas we sing , we wish you a merry christmas and a happy to you! also jingle mells.
son aged 2 ,now aged 23 called himself doody and we still call him dude.
I found other children shame them out of all the cutisms

DS is 2.5 and just beginning to self correct all his baby words.
Strawberries, drob-a-drobs
Raspberries, ra-ra's
Elephant, lumf-a-lumf
Squirrel, girrell
DD had a few funnies, nipples were muppels and bandages were banjagees. I don't ever remember having to correct her th sound, she always said that properly. DS can't say it at all though, I'm hoping it'll come in time.

My DH's father called tomato sauce "pobble", and his cousin gap had "elephanants". My god-daughter couldn't manage my name, so now bellows "Booot!" when trying to attract my attention. Needless to say my family find this hilarious....

Cousin gap? Where did they come from? Bloody apple!

DD is nearly 4. We currently have Farmer Christmas and Topplebop Bill (and his best friend Corky).

Must make a note of them.

I wish I'd kept a diary - what a great idea!

Both said 'goggy' for doggy
Milk was called minky - hence the microwave was the minky wave.
squirrels were squiggles

and jillitupters were - erm helicopters...

They are 16 & 10 now, and startlingly articulate...

Oh - and the bits of metal I use for hoiking spaghetti out of the pan were known as getti cronkers, and billy goats were known as bewdy gots!

Wish I had those days back, instead of being faced with a replica of Jeremy Paxman on a grudge match over the breakfast table...

Aah

I want to eat to eat my 2 year old nephew when he wants to watch Fukudinameena Too (Despicable Me 2) with his Muffs (Smurfs)

Love this thread! I love love love hearing all the random mis-pronounced words! Fuck fuck did make me laugh out loud. We currently have 'goggy' for yogurt, which we now all use, 'wah wah' for washing machine / laundry in general (which I use when I need to get her to come to help with with something) and 'gilly gilly' which is related to In The Night Garden but seems to cover all aspects of it. I had thought it was just Iggle Piggle but it seems not... I hadn't thought about writing them down though, so will start to do that. A big part of me never wants her to learn to say the words properly.

Oranges are still called 'noninges' and cucumber 'cu-comeback' since ds1 called them that (now 9)!

YANBU
We've had Munyuns for Monkeys
Hippanopanus for hippopotamus

Pyjama for vagina (that one was today when she asked me if boys have willies what do girls have- I said vaginas, and she laughed and then ran off shouting I have a pyjama!)
Missing the s off any word beginning with s.
Camel instead of cardigan

All sorts. I love how when she doesn't know what something is called she just gives it a word, even if she knows that word is associated with something else .

My 4yo keeps talking about doing "peeing" at school. I think (and very much hope) that she means P.E ...

my husband still refers to tubaware (for tupaware). it makes much more sense