To not correct my 3 yr old ds when he makes mistakes with language?

[Tyme]

I never correct him when he says things like 'I winned mummy! I winned!', or 'I hurt one of my foots' because I think its so cute

We don't correct but do what others do by speaking the correct words

although we all called cornflakes 'pomfakes' for a long time

My son used to say he was 'drinky' instead of thirsty

I little girl I looked after used to love emmalade (lemonade)

Though I will admit to not liking children saying things like horsey, doggy and moo-cow. Though would still not say 'that's not a horsey' I would just say 'yes, it's a lovely horse'

i think its best not to correct them. They will learn in their own time. Ive already made the mistake of correcting my dd
she used to say - i do but then for others she would say he do. I corrected her to he does. But she didnt get it and now says I does. Its my own fault - im leaving her alone to figure it out for herself now.

My DS is 21 months and talks lots. The most amusing one so far, when walking round a shop he sees a duck and shouts, literally shouts "COCK" repeatedly.....I feel I have to then shout "oh a DUCK< yes so it is, clever boy"

oh and when he says "monkey" its "kinky" this is not a word of a lie I promise. lol god forbid if I put a duck and monkey next to each other!

at all those lovely mistakes!

I do repeat back correctly as been suggested but sometimes I just have a little smile and not say anything expect something like 'oh did you really?'
He's already corrected so many of his cute little words and I do miss them. Never mind, I have ds2's to look forward to.

I was very cross when one of the teacher's at ds2's school started to correct him. I thought all the 'I dunned its' were very sweet and we indulged him in his exploration of the English Language. They can't grow out of it too soon imo.

stupid teacher saying it's 'not appropriate for GCSE' what does she know grrrrr.

Oh dear Stewie

If one of your children is saying 'DIE' to the other it's not a good sign.

at DGAK

Children get all sorts of words to replace ones they can't say. My Brothers were called Mutt and Nutt by my youngest brother and they sound nothing like their names!

I don't correct all the time I re-say.
IE My 2.2 dd says, abfulutely...I say 'yes, absolutely'....she says 'look at that vernormous fuck' and I say 'It is an enormous truck, isn't it?'
Some sounds I will correct and some I endulge, but generally I want her to speak properly!

Oh we also have a large ticking cock on our wall!!!
I have asked if she can see the big trucker too!!!!

YANBU

I remember going to a zoo when I was about 6 or 7 and thinking that I had taught a myna bird to say something. I ran over to my dad and said really excitedly, "Daddy, I teached the bird to talk."

My dad's response was to say, "It's 'taught' not 'teached'." I still remember feeling really deflated by that.

I love listening to the way children speak our language. It's amazingly sweet when they repeat a word you say wrongly but think it's right.

When my cousin was young she would call our dog Joey, Gupty(no idea on that) and after a while we thought we should see if we could get her to say it properly. The converstaion would go.
Say "snow"
"snow"
Say "joe"
"joe"
Say "snowy"
"snowy"
Say "joey"
"Gupty"

Sooooo cute we still call the dog Gupty now and she can not remember doing it at all.

Re-saying is a natural part of 'motherese' I think.

But at what age should you correct? My DD is 9 and plagues me with 'could of' and 'fink'.

Some time before GCSE surely, Doom ?

Part of me thinks is cute and the other is convinced that it is unfair to the child not to correct him/her. Reallytired's post is the best compromise. I think to some extent we all instinctly do it, don't we? correct without correcting directly I mean. I think once they are in school you do have to correct them or it could make life very difficult for them especially for spelling.

I believe the correct response is to repeat to them using the right word or pronounciation.

Eg, ds still asks 'where are my glubs?' so I respond with 'Let's look for your gloves'

It's not so cute at nearly 5 when they insist they are right tbh (adn I mean my ds not anyone elses dc)

My 4 year old still calls puddles cuddles.
I'll be sad when he starts saying the right word. So cute when he asks to, "splash in the cuddles, Mummy."

My Dd used to make us laugh out loud with her litle mistakes....like "ow brize" instead of eye brows! So sweet.

Agree the only form of correction needed is the gentle reinforcement of the correct word.eg doned/did, runned/ran

ha ha , my dd for ages used to say fing -er without pronouncing the hard g. And a thumb was a flumb.

She also said that they made a card for the caretaker at school because he had been Electric Shooted. ha ha! poor man. (electricuted)