To teach my daughter what a turtle says

[McColonel]

Our daughter is nearly 2 and learning what animals say - moo, baa, neigh etc.

I wanted to teach her what a turtle says but have got no idea (don't think they say anything) so i told her a turtle says "hello" in a funny voice.

Now when i say "What does a turtle say?" She says "Hello!" in a funny voice and waves.

My wife thinks it's cruel to teach her something that isn't true. I think it's harmless, funny and cute, and that she's taught much more bollocks by In the Night Garden etc.

What's the mumsnet verdict?

DS has not asked about turtle noises yet, but for a giraffe I taught him the 'dying giraffe' noise that they do in the South Park film.

Apparently giraffes hum.

www.newscientist.com/article/giraffes-spend-their-evenings-humming-to-each-other/

My 2yo DD thinks butterflies do a bloodcurdling scream... Thanks, DH! :/

That video!!

Giraffes have a very long recurrent laryngeal nerve, it goes all the way down their neck and back up again, innervaring their larynx. They do make a noise..

Anything my son doesn't know a noise for goes RAAAAAHHH!

Penguins, squirrels, hedgehogs and butterflies are fearsome round here :D

See!

You need to seek out Eric Herman on youtube, but maybe not the viral video of the nature photographer who interrupted Mr and Mrs Tortoise and then got seen off the premises - genuine tortoise noises on that one though

At 16 months, ds1 decided that raspberries go

Who was I to discourage such creativity :p

If it's any help, we had terrapins, and they did really noisy, stinky farts. Never been so glad to see the back of anything.

iamnotamindreader

Yes you bloody well are ??

I cane on this thread specifically to post that

Bah

But have you shown her "what does the fox say?"

I'd better still get her to voice search it...

flamingos say pink pink fishy eating so you are alright by me.

Love screaming butterflies

When DS was very small he couldn't quite remember 'quack', so informed me that ducks say 'cunt'. He also said it in quite a loud, gruff voice for some reason.

Jesus, that made me .

YANBU. We taught DS1 that sharks go "nur-NUR. nur-NUR", just like in the film.

For the avoidance of doubt, horses talk like Scooby Doo.

HTH .

*Didn't someone post on here once that her parents taught her that pine martens say "marty marty marty"? And then in her 20s she went to a zoo with friends and tried to call a pine marten....

CheerfulYank I have never laughed so much as I did when I read that thread

Turtles go "glippety gloap gloap" according to a stereoscopic picture book I have.

Having watched far too much Ben and Holly, my 22 month old is convinced that ladybirds say 'woof'.

We make up a load of old shit for what animals say when we don't know and dd repeats them with great zest but we have a crap bath book from 99p Store that is sea animals and I've been struggling with turtle. Little dude or cowa bunga? Genius. I'm so glad I have MN sometimes! (In case you wonder, the octopus goes 'plplplplplpa' and the sea horse goes 'doo doo!' Through a fist like a King's announcement in our house!)

We taught ours that a chameleon makes a sucking noise in the manner of a builder quoting to build an extension

My Ds ,aged 2, is under the impression that a shark says 'goddammit ' in a very strong new york accent. DH fault, not mine.