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.

Sorry, cheers is an "adult" word?

So... when we have a family get together, should the children just sit there in miserable silence while we adults say cheers and clink our glasses?

How completely ridiculous.

I hate "ta" though. I like cute mispronunciations of "thankyou".

Saying cheers while we clink our glasses isn't what the op means though. I think she means saying it as a substitute for "thank you" in ordinary every day conversation.

Weird. We still do it and oldest is 7.

We even cheers silly things like biscuits and pizza sometimes. Just a bit of fun.

@green she originally meant it when toasting with drinks but then went on to say it was distasteful as a replacement for thank you. Especially if you're a woman 🙄

I'm 1 million anti Ta. Urgh.

Always "thank you" from the age they can hold something.

But all about cheers-ing. Nice way to make them smile.

At the grand old age of 36 I say Ta.....it's a very northern thing. Wouldn't say it in a formal or professional setting (unless among people I know very well) and my DS would say thank you but I do think it's nice to embrace regional vernacular now and then

I honestly wonder how women who are this uptight/sad manage to function in real life

^This a hundred times. My DD's love saying cheers and clinking our glasses. They also 'clink' ice lollys together with their 18 month old cousin and its adorable. I honestly don't know how people can occupy mind space with issues like this?

I've heard many adults saying "Ta", maybe it's a northern thing? Certainly not a babyish thing.

My DD and I do cheers. It's just something to keep us going until she turns 6 when I plan on introducing heroin, satanism and Nazi ideology.

Thinking about it, there's a difference between the babyish "ta" said with a kind of tick-shaped intonation (down then rising), and the standard adult "Ta" for "thanks". Is it the tick-shape "ta" that people hate?

I find it really sad that there is a subset of middle classedness that think this way. Attempting to maintain manners appropriate for Pemberley, whilst never having developed close enough friendships to understand that everyone uses both formal and informal language. Bigly sad.

I'm also dying to find out which other words should be reserved for adult males.

You could always teach him 'Bottoms up!' instead, and hope he doesn't turn it into 'Up your bottom!' like someone I heard of.