To really dislike hearing young children say “cheers”

[Gertrudethecow]

I have had this debate with OH. He used to teach our dc (19mths and 3) to say it with drinks until I said I really didn’t like it.
Friends and relatives have also said it to dc(2) and I’ve sat with gritted teeth. He is particularly inpressionable at this age and will pick up a word and say it at any opportunity.

Slippery slope You’re right.i forgot to include soft play,when it’s a birthday

Yanbu. Young lives are being ruined by this all the time. Small toddlers descending into alcoholics after they clink glasses of apple juice for the first time.

Mine can say it in three languages.

Does that make it posh or three times as dreadful?

Not the end of the world but i do automatically associate cheers as being in a pub so yeah to some it may seem not right, but not the end of the world as i say.

Terry so can mine our children are dooooooomed

I hope my fellow doooomers are doing it Inna corporal Fraser Dad's Army voice!

Op please please please get this moved to the feminist board. I would gladly appreciate the entertainment!

Genuinely, you can not be a real person. I refuse to believe that anyone would a) think like that and b) actually think normal sane people would agree.

Of course caboose

And hello learning experience- we have from family nationalities- Gesondheid, saluti and slainte! What do the rest of you have?

@NeverTwerkNaked have you ever been told the story of the old empty barn...m

Skål, Nazdrovye, and Santé (when with family / friends from those countries!) ...

We say "up ya bum!" I think you'd need the smelling salts if your ds said that

We frequently say down the hatch instead of cheers although this is usually when -knocking back- sipping sambuca

strike through fail

OP is right.

The rest of you are negligent alcoholics parents. There needs to be an appropriate toast for each drink. Unfortunately, I don't know them. Maybe more appropriate posters will be along soon and can suggest the right toasts for each of the following:

Water clinking with water
Water clinking with wine
Wine clinking with wine
Prosecco
Milk clinking with water
Milk clinking with milk
Too drunk to carry on with this charade.....

NeverTwerkNaked we have; cin cin (chin chin, Italian), or salute, santé (French) and various disgusting ones that are Scottish or English.

Since most of them mean 'health' or 'happiness' I don't really see what the issue is for the OP.

DC loves a cheers big ears, 'that's how it goes big nose' answer here!

Where I'm from the traditional response to Cheers, Big Ears is Same goes, Big Nose.

I never say cheers, it’s awful. The type of person who says cheers usually calls men mate and women love.

Cheers isn't suitable for children or women?

Whenever you think you've seen the most FFS threads on MN there's another one..

@leevalley sweeping generalisation much? I say cheers to mean thank you but have never called anyone mate or love ( it either gender)

I'm assuming everyone who objects to the word cheers speaks with perfect RP English and uses no slang or local colloquialisms....

I once said cheers and sprouted a moustache instantly.

We say Iechyd Da round here!

Cheers was DS1's first word.

I use it all the time to say thanks to people. Didn't know that my XX status was meant to prevent me being able to say cheers.

We can't say cheers m'dears anymore? . We're all girls. I guess DH could say it, having a penis and all that...