...to want DS's nursery to not use words like "ta" and "doggie"?

[Naetha]

I understand the benefit of getting babies/young toddlers into the habit of saying "ta" instead of thankyou as it's easier to say, but when they're 2+ and saying thankyou perfectly well, isn't this a bit infantile?

And why doggie?? Surely dog is easier and straight to the point.

Am I just a snob?

not at all! you are completely and utterly right. i don't understand 'ta' at any stage for god's sake. kids won't learn to speak if we all speak to them in some kind of weirdo baby language. well they will, they will learn to talk baby language. so many thickos work in childcare though, something to do with it being really low paid and not highly regarded at all!

Never used baby words.
What´s the point-then you end up telling them not to talk like a baby!
TBH I wouldn´t use a nursery where "baby" language was used.

YABU

How many children do you know who use the word 'doggie'

I say ta myself sometimes. However, I am not a Thicko working in Childcare, so that rather busts PSCMUM's theory

Not highly regarded by whom?

I for one have utmost respect for anyone who works in full time childcare.

Oh well done with the thickos in childcare remark.

Christ.

i dont htink it wil be on his cv

" coudl identify breeds of dogs at 18 months"

ROLL WITH IT

no it doesn't bust my theory at all. my theory is not 'the only people who say ta are thickos working in childcare'. my theory is that if you pay peanuts, you usually either get monkeys, or extremely committed and intelligent people willing to overlook the fact they get paid vastly less than reflects the pivotal importance of their job, because they are so committed to it.

Can't stand the use of "Ta", have always said "Thank You" to my DD (only 17mths) and hope that's what she'll reply when older!

Don't have a problem with "doggie", although have been teaching her "dog" whenever we see a dog.

although i dont like ta
i must admit

and i do think a lot of badly edcuated women work in childcare

YANBU, I don't like "ta" either. Had to ask my parents to use "thank-you" the other day, we had a bit of a giggle about whether or not they were common, but they agreed with me, thankfully!

I do have a different accent to the one in the area where I live and I can hear myself sounding a bit yokel-ish sometimes when I talk to her, I shall be very amused if she speaks like me when she starts talking!

well by society in general i suppose - when kids leave school without any qualifications at all, the girls are usually advised to go into childcare. sorry, thickos was a word lazily chosen, but there are a number of people working in childcare who do so because there are very few other jobs they could do, or would be given. I am not saying 'everyone who works in childcare is a dimwit' just that many of those who do are not very well educated. sorry, but they are not! it is just the fact of the matter.

Oh it doesn't matter in the scheme of things.

They say ta for about 4 months. Then they say thank you.

Soon enough they say cheers, mate.

Who cares about doggie? I still call rabbits bunnies and I am 32 (and a twat, I can see now).

Well, if you want graduates to care for your children you might have to pay just a bit more for your childcare...........

I really don't get why Ta is a problem for people

yes - seeker - i agree - exactly. if we do want graduates, we have to pay graduate salaries. if we don't want to pay graduate salaries, we have to accept that relatively uneducated low paid workers will be caring for our children and thereby doing the most important job of all.

I cannot abide 'ta'. Ds said thank you from a young age, but I found people would say to back, as if to correct him. I never understood that.

I may be of a different opinion here in that i am not overly bothered how "intelligent" they are as long as they can teach my children life skills, being kind and social interaction.

To me it's infinitely more important that they interact well with my child and my child interacts well with them.

DD came home with her GCSE options - one of which is Child Development. She said that all the dim girls were taking it as an option.

Had a go at her about being judgy (oh hark at me when I vent my spleen on AIBU often enough). But to be perfectly honest I probably wouldn;t be happy if she chose it as an option.

Am hypocrite.

I wouldn't worry at this rate there will be lots of graduates working in childcare, whether they can speak or are still thick will remain to be seen.

Lol @ getorfmoiland.
I sometimes call cats 'pussies' til I remember that it's no longer an acceptable term for a feline Hopefully DD's still too young to have picked it up. I don't work in childcare (other than my own) though so I won't be polluting anyone else's child.

Bernard - the ta thing is easy. It's because it is common.

I hate 'ta', but my personal pet peeve is 'hiya'. I never say hiya to kids and I will be irritated if other people say it to mine when she arrives (but of course they will). Don't have any rational explanation for hating those words (and I say 'hiya' to adults all the time...) they just irk me.

As for doggy though, YABU! I STILL say doggy - possibly because my favourite toy when I was growing up was a stuffed dog called... Doggy. So doggy it always will be for me. And mog. And bunny. And geegee. And moocow.

I hate "ta" with a completely unreasonable passion. It's AWFUL. It doesn't even sound like thank you - it makes no sense. It must be a relict from some regional dialect thing, do you think?