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

I’m a 52 year old American and I can confirm that “Pass the Present” has been played at birthday parties in America for at least 50 years. The only difference is the name.

I don't think it's got anything to do with people not liking America. It's just odd to not speak BE if you have always lived in Britain and your family is British.

One of mine loved doing various US accents. Now a teen, her French & German teachers say she has the best accent for each in the class. How about you untwist your snobby pants and enjoy it?

What part are you from if you don’t mind me asking?

I grew up in the Midwest and had never heard or played it. Pass the Parcel was what I was introduced here after I moved. It looked like hot potato to me.

I grew up in Northern Ireland and we did English accents when we played as it was all there was on TV other than the news! I bet my parents hated it 😂

The Northeast. We played Hot Potato
too, and wonder ball which is similar but has its own song, but those were more like something we would do at preschool or playgroup while Pass the Present was for parties. I will never forget the heart sinking disappointment of opening the next layer of gift wrap only to find one more layer underneath.

One of ours has started saying no in an Australian accent a la bluey

Do you want your child to end up with an Australian, Kiwi or Canadian accent instead?

Some of the kids programmes my DD watches on iPlayer are from those countries.

Mind you she has a MLE accent.

It's funny going around the local supermarkets as parents have all sorts of accents but their kids speak MLE.

We're American. When DS was little Teletubbies was on TV and we got him a picture book to go with the show. When we got to Po, he would always say she had a "scoot-ah." We thought it was adorable.

Constantly trying to get mine to stop the hard g in walking or cooking. And stop saying N velope instead on ON velope, eethher instead of eyether etc.
I'm southern, dp Midlands.

Thank you :-). I’m now off to look up what wonder ball is. Never heard of that one either.

I'm American living in the UK and my nearly 3 year old doesn't have an American accent. Just going to nursery stops that. Your kid would have to watch an absolute ton of tv to pick up an accent different to their peers.

And stop saying N velope instead on ON velope, eethher instead of eyether etc.

All of those are used in the States. It’s based on region which way it is said, no different to regional differences here in the UK.

I thought the thread would be about a primary school aged child not a two year old, whatever are they watching.

Dd is 16 and writes mom in a WhatsApp, rather than mum. She sometimes says things in an American accent. Doesn't bother me. I quite like it. It's not her actual accent

Are they at an international school?

Children at those often have an American-ish accent (I say "ish" because I don't think it's an accent from anywhere particular in the States), it's quite distinctive. In that case I think it's because they often have American resources to use in lessons, then you have such a mix of home languages you get almost an "accent franca".

I think Mom is also used sometimes in north UK?

I say Nvelope 🤣. I'm SE uk

Yes. That's not where dd got it from though.

Yanbu ( well only slightly!) It really grates when DC say flashlight and not torch!

Stick Bluey on. Then she can have an Aussie accent instead.

Mine have American accents when they play. Always have. Pretty much every kid I’ve ever encountered does. They don’t have American accents when they talk normally and they don’t watch much TV. Actually one loves bluey. But still the accent is American

I'm in the UK and say all those things.

@xyz111 ah yes my 5yo loves bluey too and likes to play shops using "dollar bucks"

My kids only watched cbeebies at that age (and not very much of that), that was to avoid adverts though. We didn't ban Disney but I did go out of my way to expose them to other film traditions as well. Studio Ghibli is the one they still love.

My parents only bought the Radio Times back in the 70s and 80s which meant we didn't watch much ITV back then (the Radio Times only had the BBC listings back then).

Huge prestige around that accent hence why it was so ubiquitous.

The English accent (as this girl Lucy speaks) is so perfect. I have a northern Irish accent and if I could trade it for anyones it would be hers (also love the Kiwi accent..."the all bleeks").

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pOHTr-MxtGM