Why is my 8yr son constantly talking about 6 7

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I and my husband have no idea what on earth 6 7 is! And we want it to stop. would anyone recommend a recipe to 1 day blinding stew to sort him out???

Apparently its the height of a famous basketball player?? Had to ask my teenage sons what it was all about lol

I heard it was a TikTok craze that means nothing and was designed to infuriate adults.

It does appear to be essentially meaningless.

Top tip from my 11 year old is their teachers got in on it, making it soo uncool. Adult takeover!

It doesn't mean anything at all. Just one of those stupid trends that will die out when the next one pops up.

Tbh I didnt find googling 6 7 challenging.........
"Merriam-Webster defines 6-7 as a “nonsensical expression used especially by teens and tweens” and links its origins to two intertwined cultural phenomena: the 2024 song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Philadelphia-based rapper Skrilla, and NBA player LaMelo Ball, who happens to be exactly 6’7” in height. The rap song went viral on TikTok and Instagram, where it was often paired with highlights from Ball’s games."

Ive no idea what the rest of your post means though. A 1 day blinding stew? I could google that too I guess....... but I cba!

what's a 1 day blinding stew meant to mean? that's an nonsensical as 6 7.

it refers to a basketball players height in some song they've probably never heard. you say it back and forth and do this weird jiggle with your hand. have you tried immitsting him in the spirit of "joining in"? nothing set to turn a kid off a craze quicker.

Jeremy Vine is going to be talking about this on Radio 2 soon.

It’s just some nonsense from TikTok (my youngest doesn’t even have TikTok but has picked it up from school 🙄)
DH started saying it so the DC stopped…

There's also theories that its from periodic table 67 which is HO or something. So some are saying it's got sexual connections.

It's probably just crap from some song and doesn't mean much.

Shout out Skrilla ✌❤

Just keep saying "8" to him. He'll soon get sick.

It’s part of the brain rot stuff on YouTube. It’s just a silly saying that all the kids are copying.

Just a silly trend based on an internet video of some kid saying it, which was itself based on something else. It was a big thing in high schools before half term. Now dying out with my DS1’s year 8 class, but being picked up by my DS2’s year 4 class. There have been various articles about it in the press. Esther Walker wrote a good one in The Times a few weeks ago.

It's skibidi bruh.🤦‍♀️ YANBU.

YY to the one-day blinding stew. It also might stop him biting hair.

You just have to embrace it. Say it all the time. Then it makes it ultra not cool and they stop.

It used to be teens, now it's down in primary. They will move onto the next silly thing soon.
In terms of annoying trends it is at least harmless and free....

i laughed when I read your title. Friday night we were watching “Burn Notice” with our 13 year old son. A character appeared on screen with a sports vest on and the number 67. Cue 13 year saying Mum look! I rolled my eye as he went “6-7”, looked over at my husband who had the must confused look on his face. So I just said “6-7” in the way the kids say it, our son repeated it and he looked more confused than ever, I normally find it slightly irritating but did laugh at this, I quite liked being on the side of knowing what it was all about and he was clueless (he’s the that thinks he knows everything - you know the type I mean I’m sure).

My son and I have a shared hobby. An event has just been announced for the weekend of 6th/7th Dec. When I read it, I told him I was going to tell him something and he had 2 mins to get it out of his system then I don’t want to hear it again 😂

Just go with it OP. I seem to remember “word” was the nonsense thing my generation of teenagers said randomly. Even I as a teenager at the time didn’t really know what the fuck they were on about!

He is a bit late. It's fading, don't worry.

My ds doesn’t have tick-tock but they all pick it up from each other at school.
I’ve found the trick is to play them at their own game and learn the current annoying phrases before they do. They soon stop saying it (or if you catch it before they start) when mum starts saying it too.
Eg- 6 7, skibbidy toilet, Italian brain rot- chimpanzini banni etc

Any chance you tap dance? …5 6 7 8 & several sets of time steps with jazz hands should transfer the balance of confusion🤣🤣

I'm disabled and get a lot of stuff delivered from local shops like bread and milk on an app that does 30 mins deliveries. When it arrives you have to give the driver a 2 digit code, but it's the same code every time.

My code is 6 7, and the number of angry driver glares I've had when asked for it the last few weeks has been insane. I've started just holding up my phone with the code showing in the app instead.

Did you know that every night you go to bed with Tony Hart?

Ha - you beat me to it!

I used to drive my parents bonkers with 'cool' and 'whatever'.