Not allowing my DP to change words for our DD

[MagicDucky]

Our DD is 1.5 and learning to copy all the words we say! We both agreed not to use baby words ("Bo bo" instead of bottle etc...), but the other day he told me we're going to call a fork a for just now because when DD says fork it can, understandably, sound like fuck.

I told him this was ridiculous and we will not be calling it a for.

Personally I couldn't give a rats a** what is sounds like! She'll get it right eventually!

So now he's pi**ed off with me?!

YANBU. Your DP is being a twat.

I think you're both making a bit of a fuss over forking nothing.

This is ridiculous, you should use proper words.

ds1 first word was DUCK! ...thanks to high heaven the D was perfectly clear

teach her KNIFE&fork and it totally covers any fuck mistakes.

We did stick to all vessels on the sea being boats for quite a while....ship can be quite easily misheard.

He is BU.
I can see his point but this is going to massively confuse her and slow down her speech over the long term.

Imagine learning A load of words and feeling competent at speaking to find out that actually you need to relearn them all as they were only half words.

You have to get through the hard embarrassing stage and laugh about it afterwards

DD pronounced crisps as piss for a long time. He may as well get over
himself now!

YANBU

My ds used to say can I have a
Fock in knife
We always forgot his cutlery so he'd have to ask

I watched a clip on fb today of the little girl saying frog Fock
It was hilarious.

Parenting is tough
Enjoy the laughs when you get them

But baby swears are one of the joys of parenthood!

Please write this down so that one day you can both look back and laugh at the absurdity!

Can't lie, I think it's hilarious! I could t believe he got in such a cream puff over it!

Btw YANBU

its a knife fuck n spoon according to ds2 when he was younger my youngest ds calls it four

The thing is, they manage to pronounce the strangest words wrong that you'd essentially be speaking a conpletely new language if you tried to avoid them all.

We had "Mummy, what's a wanker?" (Anchor - thanks Octonauts)
"Blackcu'nt jews"

And the usual fork/fuck, crisps/piss, ship/shit confusions

We were living in a French-speaking country when DD1 was small, and as she went to a french-speaking daycare, she spoke french too. From the suppressed giggles and smiles we saw around the place, I'm pretty sure she was making similar mistakes in French too.

My Dad keeps trying to teach her truck! DP not impressed by this either.

vvviola I think blackcu'nt jews is my favourite

Ds wrote a little note and left it out for santa once...
'Fuk you Santa'

There are plenty of other words that she may pronounce wrongly, dd called grandpa a "wanker" for months :)

DS(2) says "piss" instead of kiss.

Honestly, is he usually so prissy? He should try and get over it before she gets more verbal. I have a three year old who recently said of the vicar 'That man is WEIRD, Mummy' during a prayerful silence, followed by a litany of poo-related songs sung fortissimo as I carried him out of the village hall.

Actually, the vicar is weird, but still...

Chocolate was cocktit in this house.

YANBU

All children sound like they're swearing sometimes. If he's really embarrassed he can just say something like "yes, it's a FORK, that's right, a FORK." Then anyone who hears will know he's not been teaching her to swear.

My DS2 pronounced truck as fuck. I got some odd looks when he got excited about a book about vehicles in the library.

DS1 pronounced can't as cunt. I practically died the day he took off his shoe in M&S and when I told him to put it back on again, shouted "Can't, can't, can't, can't."

Your DH needs to let it go! In our house DS (18m):
Fuck = stuck
Fuck = Fork
Titty = Tilly (the cat)
Cock = clock
Cock-cock = chocolate

He's trying so hard and its so innocent - it's quite endearing!