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!

My mum still says it to me now despite the fact I am married with a child...

Horsie and doggy serve an important function, actually - it's easier for a child to hear and pronounce than when the word ends in a consonant.

Totally different words are daft, I agree, but that's taaaah instead of thank you, bobos for sleep, etc and not pennies WHICH IS A WORD.

Oh and my 3yo can't pronounce coins but can pronounce pennies. So that's another reason.

I say pennies and messages (West of Scotland) and I'm not in the least bit twee so GIRFUY

I say money to DS1 but have never noticed anyone calling it pennies in a general term, I bet I hear it everywhere I go now.

I refer to myself as Mummy.
We do call animals by their names - Dog, Bird, Gorilla, Monkey, ect. I don't see why we should confuse them and make them learn the correct name again later on.

What is 'twee'?
That's a term I have NEVER heard.

Something just struck me, reading a more recent post...I would only call 1p pennies. I wouldn't call all coins pennies. If I had a pile of 1p coins I would refer to them as pennies. If it were 2p coins or a mix of 1's and 2's I would call it 'brown money'. Then everything else would be 'coins', 'money' or their value.

Oh God I hate this - it is one of my obsessions!

Even worse if they are using their "pennies" to buy "toffees" meaning sweets (which are invariably not actual toffees).

YANBU.

It's because small children are usually given pennies to carry about the house. THey count then play with them. They don't know all the words for different sort of change, so they say pennies. And then mum and dad say pennies to them.

^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.^

Well worded, that too.

I used to work in gift shop. I loathed the scenario where parent gives coins to small child to hand to me. I then have to wait patiently for the little darling to part with them from hot sticky finger

My son was given £2 coin to pay for some sweets, he can back to me and asked 'shall I say yes to cash back?'

He had no idea that they are offering your own money rather than as he thought free money!

It's difficult to grasp

I was looking after someone child once, and in a game he was miming eBay his dad did for a living. When I asked him what his dad did, he said " brings home the pennies"
Which I thought was a revoltingly twee thing to tell a bright 6 year old.

Yabu as a child I was alway told by my grandparents look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves! It's not baby talk it's just a nod back to by gone years, I always use the term pennies then paying of things and When something is expensive in our house we discribe it a x gold coins as my boys understand gold coins (£1) are lots of money yet we did laugh when their grandparent gave them a £10 note each once and they looked at it rather uninterested unit we explained it was worth 10 gold coins then they were over the moon 😂😂

I misred it as penises... who would ever have an issue with pennies!

Yabu! My kids have their pennies ready for paying for their messages! 😂 Are you also annoyed when someone asks for a piece and something?

I give people a pass for teaching children babified words,. It's a bit annoying maybe, but if that's the only thing in life that annoys you, you are lucky!

I strongly dislike people teaching their children to swear because it is funny though, I've come across that before...

Cannot stand my friend calling her husband hubbie though, that word makes me shiver for some reason.

I thought this was a post about children paying in actual pennies! My dd finds them on the street and saves them up so when I say it, I mean it! We do try and put them in piles of ten but apologies if you've ever been stuck whilst she counts out some ludicrous amount! I was always disappointed when Spending a Penny seemed to involve going to the toilet and not buying sweets (neighbour being twee). If I had a Penny it was still the days when you buy two sweets for that!

A lady I work with runs a marathon/fun run almost every other week. Every Monday Morning we get a group email linking to a just giving page, asking everybody to spare 'just a few pennies' towards that weeks charity. Does my head in. As if anyone is going to go and put five pence on her desk...

'Parentese' - baby talk - exists in virtually every language and across cultures. It even exists in sign language! Babies respond more animatedly to the repetition and rhythm of words like choo-choo, din-din, ba-ba, gee-gee and it makes them easy to decode. Imagine as an adult being in a room full of people talking in a language you don't understand (but want to learn) - one of the biggest problems is knowing where words start and stop. End - markers such as adding 'ie' or 'y' to common words makes it easier for toddlers to isolate the word - hence piggy, doggy, drinkie, etc. Referring to oneself as 'Mummy' is also clearer for the child than using the pronoun 'I' - which does not refer to a single person. A major study in 2014 showed that language development in children exposed to baby talk was faster and vocabulary broader than in those children whose parents did not use 'baby talk'. Could go on indefinitely (did my PhD in linguistics and taught child language development for a while) but just google if you are interested. Meanwhile, well done Daisys

I was potty training my 2 year old son. On hearing this a neighbour said to him "Do you do tinkles in your duckie?" ( She called potties duckies because her children apparently had a duck shaped potty) Cue withering look from my son!

It sounds like people are using 'pennies' beyond the end of normal use of parentese. For example, I might say 'doggie' to my 2 year-old, but don't to my 6 year-old. Yet people are continuing to use 'pennies' to older children. I do change my vocabulary a bit for my 6 year-old, but not too much as I would prefer to use the opportunity to extend her vocabulary I just try to edit out the swearing.

I wish I had some pennies.

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

Or why not use one of the fine slang terms.

Shrapnel
Nuggets
Sovs
Lettuce
Dead Prez
Funky dividends
Cheddar
Bunce

It sounds like people are using 'pennies' beyond the end of normal use of parentese. [...] Yet people are continuing to use 'pennies' to older children.

Interesting thought. I use "pennies" with my youngest (3y10m, speech delay) but not with the elder two (6.5 and 9.2) - similarly they talk to me about "money" unless we're including the smallest in the conversation where they automatically use "pennies". I wonder where my cutoff is. I wonder if it's linguistic rather than chronological.