If your 5yo DD starts talking in a funny way do you ignore?

[dollybird]

DD has just started saying vowel sounds funny, mostly with an 'ay' sound like 'rabbish' instead of 'rubbish' or mammy instead of mummy. It's quite sweet at the moment, but I fear it could become irritating! Do we just ignore and hope she reverts back?

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In my nightmarish first year of teaching with The Class From Hell, I had a group of year 4 boys who all talked like Tellytubbies. I still get cold shivers when I hear Tinkywinky.

No home experience of the phenomenon, but she is probably just experimenting. If it gets too irritating, could you join in? "That's really clever. What if we do it with 'o'? Robbish, 'mommy'." If she is doing it to irritate, that might stop it. If not, you might have fun together.

I don't have any answers dollybird, just sympathy. 3 year old DD talks in a silly babyish way sometimes (mimicing a friend of hers who has some speech delay) and 7 year old DS often talks in a strange weird way which he thinks is clever and funny and DH and I think is bloody irritating!!

She is just experimenting-she is more likely to get over it if you ignore it.

Oh, I was hoping you meant different voices, not accents. DS is 5, and he keeps trying out his pirate voice. I can't not ignore it, it cracks me up.

We used to have Donald Duck! Luckily not for long!

Console yourself with the thought that she is probably very bright

And, it is a phase...

Ignore.

DD (5.8) does it all the time - I think its just trying out ways of speaking and wordplay.

Probably a sign of being G&T or something

I was hoping you were going to sy that your dd puts on a twee fairy voice.

Because dd does. I think she thinks it's cute. But for some reason it riles me. She sounds like violet elizabeth bott sometimes and it has the effect of someone scraping their nails down a blackboard.

She has had glue ear and has grommetts (unless they've fallen out since last check-up), so hopeing it's not a hearing thing. I've said to her 'can you call me Mummy' and she said 'I did call you Mammy' - it's like she doesn't hear that she is doing it. Not noticed any other problem with her hearing though. She's got a check-up in Feb. Hopefully they'll say she's fine and I will try and ignore in the meantime!