For banning my child from watching American tv

[Luna87]

I've noticed so many young children talking in strong American accents lately, I'm not going to lie - it really annoys me.

AIBU for banning my 2.5 year old from watching anything American? I prefer her to watch CBeebies so she doesn't pick up the accent. DH thinks I'm being too harsh

But I’m a Geordie and grew up watching TV with southern accents…and still ended up with a proper Geordie accent. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Surely 99% of kids watch American programmes on TV as we did when we were children and yet practically none of us have American accents.

This is a common problem.
I've seen American parents laugh at their children picking up Aussie and English accents from Bluey and Peppa and teased my own kids for using American words that they picked up from YouTube.

With all the serious problems in the world, I can't believe people are fretting because a child says sidewalk instead of pavement.

Just correct them and move on with your life

I saw a video of a mum in the US making a pass the parcel because her child had picked it up from Bluey. Apparently it's not a game at American parties.

My DC don't have English accents despite watching plenty of cbeebies. I'm not sure they've ever heard my accent on TV.

Oh gosh try having autistic kids who pick up every accent but the one of the local area. I currently have one speaking in proper RP and another in a half British half America accent as he only speaks in echolalia. I’m just glad he stopped repeating everything from Bing to be honest, trash can and candy is nothing compared to that whiny rabbit….

Not being unreasonable at all IMO

Doesn’t this happen the other way around.? There’s a British tv programme kids watch in the US that cause some to sound British. It’s not going to be permanent, is it.

As long as you also ban Balamory, god forbid she end up sounding like Edie McCredie

I really think accents are picked up at school

My child has a proper SARF London accent because of the ladies who work at his nursery.

It's quite sweet. He sounds like Dick van Dyke.

OP - kids don't need to be watching tv, let alone enough to give them an accent

I think that means that he spends toi much time on- line!

How disappointing that @mnhq is allowing this thread. What a nice, welcoming place for everyone.

Yeah, have her watch a lot of Gary Grant and/or Katherine Hepburn movies. That's a nice accent.

Y'all being unreasonable.

You joke but this is my 6YO DD’s exact accent and it sounds completely bizarre because the mid Atlantic accent is so archaic! She lived in the states until 3 and a half, was in FT daycare there and DH speaks another language so only really heard British English from me, then when we moved back to the UK her accent changed a bit but somehow got stuck at mid Atlantic. We use a bizarre mash up of anglo American terms at home too because for example diaper and stroller was what daycare said and she’d have no clue if I said nappy or pram but they sort of stuck so now her younger brother says them too even though he has a fully British accent.

My daughter watches too much bluey and some words she does stay strangely. She also uses the elongated a that southerners use "glarse" instead of "glass" but we don't live in South and neither me or DH use it

It’s not, the closest equivalent is “hot potato”.

I'm in my seventies and can remember my mum being annoyed at me picking up American accents from TV and radio. When mine was young he and his friends did the same. It's a phase, get over it.

You can. But they will still copy their friends.

My child uses two catch phrases all the time and she has never watched those shows. She also has an American twang on a couple of words even though we dont watch much tv (once a week-ish and not American stuff)

DH is a Geordie, my accent gets confused with Canadian because I don’t sound stereotypical American (whatever that is), we live in SE England and our sons watch a mix of American, British, Australian, and Japanese children’s shows and movies.

Youngest still sounds British and he learns from us both American and British words for things because why not? He says American phrases but most of it sounds British. I rather him be exposed to myriad of accents and words so it’s normal to him where he doesn’t assume someone sounding or speaking differently to him is weird or expect them to speak like him than get annoyed by a temporary accent.

Everyone seems to refer to films as movies now, too. Also pay-cheque and parking lot is creeping in. Very annoying indeed.

Some cbeebies and cbbc programmes are co-produced by Canadian TV companies. Would you accept a Canadian accent or is it just American ones 🤔
I used to love The Odd Squad (Canadian made educational programme about maths on cbbc It’s award winning and got a bit of a cult following apparently …)

This is literally my stepson. Does my fucking head in.