To dislike 'pennies' being used when paying for things with children?

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Does anyone hear this a lot or is it just me?

"Give the lady your pennies ... Mummy hasn't got any pennies ..."

Grr. Just say "money" FFS!

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But when I was a child we did have pennies and actuality half pennies pronounced happenies and two pence peices

You could buy 4 black jacks for 1 penny and a big fruit salad for two pence.

However agree op it's twee! I tell my grandson to cough up the spondoolers for gran pronto

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Willow2017

Well, that was 5 mins of my life I won't get back...

I used "used" pennies with my DD and we do the same with all the little kids when talking about money, not to be twee or annoying but because to them pennies = coins.

When they're too little to understand the value of money or recognise different coins as having different values to them all coins are the same so why not use pennies as a generic term? Whether they're given 10p or £2 they're equally as happy because they have some pennies.

As they got older and started to learn about money and basic maths we used it to help them do the maths so "That bar of chocolate costs 90p, do you have enough pennies to pay for it?" or "Mama doesn't have any pennies for because I have to pay for the groceries"

Eh? What's wrong with pennies? The plural of penny surely? Is penny not a word? I always thought it was. Are you from London?

I say it all the time! It's a glorious word. Use it more!

OP I'm with you. It's horribly twee.

What the fuck does twee mean anyway?

Twee is another annoying word

Willow

That'll lern ye!

Scottish here, I give my dc's pennies so we can get a funcy piece when we are getting our messages. Everyone one says it round here. On the other hand, twee is starting to get on my nerves.

We collect pennies in the pence pot. I'd love to correct that particular quirk but quite frankly I haven't the energy to argue the toss with two autistic children.

Mind you, it is mostly actual pennies in the pot. The odd 2p or 5p too, but mostly pennies.

When they're too little to understand the value of money or recognise different coins as having different values to them all coins are the same so why not use pennies as a generic term?

But there already is a generic term - coins. Why not just use that?

It feels like an SAT test analogy. "All poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are poodles." All pennies are coins, but all coins are pennies.

My wee granny said pennies

It's not just Scottish. North Yorkshire upbringing here and my grandparents always said pennies to us. I say it my 2yo. So what?! She's still learning. She loves to chat to people at the till and this is more important than what we name coins. Love to hang on to my heritage and hand it in to the next generation. YABU!!

Not jist Scottish here. Northern and my family go for messages and save your pennies.

Houses can cost a oretty pennie. Children save their pennies.

I refer to most coins as pennies - but pound coins are beer tokens

I say it! And proud!
Just something we have always said throughout time in the family to kids and it has stuck for generations.

Sometimes i say money. Sometimes i say pennies. It is still correct.

It is a very good discriptive word.
Remember a 50p coin means a coin worth 50 pence(or pennies) etc.
By using the word pennies you are introducing a whole host of concepts including equivalent value, place value etc. Now you can get the similar from coin but have you ever tried to define what money actually is as a concept? These days with cards and phones being used instead of cash it can be even harder to understand "just use your card" is an example. I have had some very interesting conversations I class about this subject.

I thought it was just me who hated it too but then I don't understand why anyone uses different words with children. Why would you teach them the wrong word for something then have to teach them the correct word later - "horsie""doggie" etc

But in this case pennies is an actual word, it is not made up like horsie & doggie.

Just putting my pennies worth in (see what I did there?)

There's lots of children's rhymes and songs that use the words horsey and doggy

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I think she meant dfod or do fuck off dear. I've been on this site years and this is the first time someone has said that to me! I stand by what I said though. I use the term "pennies" when talking to my children about money, as do most of the people I know irl, and I never realised how annoying some people find it. I'm still going to say it though because if I stopped using all the words people complained about on here I'd never open my mouth!

But there already is a generic term - coins. Why not just use that?

That is the generic term for the physical item, but it doesn't give any value to the coins themselves. Using "penny" gives coins a value and you can expand on that value and define it more clearly as the children get older.

So for my DD all coins started off as "pennies"; then she learnt that the gold pennies were worth more than the silver which were worth more than the copper; then she learnt to recognize the specific coins and started to put a value to them; then she started to do basic maths when we were shopping and she wanted to spend her pennies.

As we went through the stages the vocabulary we used got more sophisticated but why not use a term that is in common parlance and that everyone understands?