Help me work out why my 3yo is saying 'silly wanker'

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My son is 3.5yo. He has just started randomly saying 'wanker' 'silly wanker' and what sometimes sounds like 'you're a wanker'.

I am not naive enough to rule out him having perhaps heard this language and copying it but it seems like he's actually trying to say something else as his speech isn't the clearest for age 3.5

I'm 100% confident he's not heard it at home as we genuinely just don't use that word but he does go to nursery and is around other kids at parks etc.

At first it sounded like he was saying 'one car' and it still does sound like one car more than wanker but when I tried to ask him if he was saying one car he said no.

I asked him a few times who says that as he's usually quite good at telling tales about kids who hit or are naughty at nursery but he just said 'I say it' , until today he said 'Randall says it' . He's just got into watching monsters inc and monsters university and I know lots of films try to do silly play on words to appeal to adult audiences which usually goes over little kids heads, and so I'm considering if he's heard Randall saying something similar and am asking for help trying to hopefully work out what!

As I said, it may well be he's just heard the word somewhere, but it's bugging me thinking he's trying to say something else and I can't work out what!

Thanks in advance

@OhMoreDrama
Read through to the end but still laughing at your fucking troller.

We also had fackin troller!

Anyone thinking of the “it’s a fucking goat” video? Or is it just me. 😂

We had car words that daddy said but mustn’t be repeated anywhere. My ex was a knob then too.

We had very similar - "fa King cola" for the fat controller!

And Ducks said "Fack Fack"

DS went through a phase of saying 'can't' for anything negative, sometimes instead of 'no' or if he didn't like something. The problem was he (briefly) mispronounced it using a u sound for a and spoke loudly.

Me: look the nice lady has a lollipop for you!
Ds: CUNT!!!

😂😂😂

My granddaughter says twat instead of quack. And on that farm there was a duck, e i e i o, with a twat twat here and a twat twat there, here a twat there a twat everywhere a twat twat. Creases me up 😂

My 1 year old was very excited by the "big knockers" at a playground. He was pretty early with his speaking, but "binoculars" was beyond him.

I would say it’s probably from whoever drives a car with him. Or has been to shops/pack etc with his dad?

My DH once called a man who walked into him a cunt. That was because he was carrying DD1 who was 2 yrs old. You know what she said don’t you?

This is a wonderful thread. That is all.

My DS makes various sounds like trains and cars and stuff. Then he tries to turn them into verbs:

So a car goes "vroom vroom" -> "Vroom it Mummy!"

A fire hose goes "Psssht" -> "Piss it! It pissing!! Hose pissing!"

No idea about this one hut when DS1 was about 3 we had a very stressful week at DPIL with him saying fu@ks sake , me being very unimpressed with DH, only to twig on long journey home as we listened to Ade Edmunson read dr Seuss that he'd been saying Fox socks.

Son's favourite toy was a monster from Star Wars - Rankor. Got called Wanker by him for years

Awww, glad you worked it out OP! I love all these anecdotes.

DS was pleased when he learnt the word ‘sky’, only he pronounced it ‘gay’, so when we were out and about, he would randomly point out of his buggy and shout ‘gay’ which was embarrassing as people sometimes thought he was pointing at them.

Although there was also a genuine swearing incident when my DD who was about 3 was doing a jigsaw with my mum, got frustrated with a piece that wouldn’t fit and said ‘it’s pissing me off’. My Mum gave me a look and I had to pretend I couldn’t understood where she’d got that from 😂

Opposite of this. I was babysitting years back and the younger sister came to tell me her older brother was being naughty "Eddy said fork!" Took me a minute got to be honest.

Autistic Mouse! 🐭 Hahaha that's hilarious 😆 I can just imagine the confusion not to mention visions that gave you 🤨😆

A friends DC said she couldn't eat her dinner because it was too sexy. Apparently she asked an older sibling what's sexy and they said 'hot'.

🤣 Nearly wet myself at that one

For over a month, my toddler asked for "eskimos" to eat. I had no idea what these were, and couldn't get any further description of them, beyond steadily more frustrated demands of, "eskiMO!"

Toddler meant, of all things, a samosa. I suppose I can see it, how it happened: it's that mo syllable they have in common- eskiMO, saMOsa...

There hasn't been any "perfect parent parade?"

I'm sorry but your DH sounds like a c... himself. An angry one

Make sure he's not trying to say Willy Wonka! My 4yr called DH a wanker. Turned it was because he liked chocolate and "Willy Wonka likes chocolate".

This thread has brought back memories. I had my son aged about three and his friend in the car.A guy pulled out in front of me and I screamed Wanker.
Friends son now 25 years later absolutely loves a wanker and is now a professional rugby player 😂ie England team 👏

The thread is making me chuckle 😄

My toddler ds did go around saying wanker for an uncomfortable while. I wrongly thought he was asleep and hissed it loudly upon hanging up the phone from his df, who was behaving very badly. I think my impassioned tone impressed itself upon ds and it briefly became his favourite word 😳