What everyday things did you have to rename because of your kids?

[dodi1978]

DS, 26 months looooves chocolate croissants and chips a bit too much.

We can't talk about either without him going begging... I bet the food stool I bought for him to reach the sink will soon be repurposed to reach the kitchen counter and the chocolate croissants (we buy the pre.packaged ones from the supermarket).

Anyway, I digress...

When DH and I talk about said items, croissants are now "French patisserie". Chips are "potato products".

Any other examples?

Straying from the topic of food - I was wondering the other day if we might need to rename our cat. I'm Scottish, but live in England and our cat has a quite Scottish name that - if said by a toddler in an English accent - has the potential to sound v rude. I did not think this through when we named the cat...

I'm very ahead of myself as I'm due in six weeks so a good while yet before I have to really face the issue. The cat is three years old. Wondering if it's better to change her name now though so the poor creature has time to get used to it! And I don't have to explain why my child is running around shouting crass words in years to come

My mum and dad used to spell out sweets didn't last long though as my brother stopped calling them sweets and referred to them as sw's

The name stuck for years

EmmaWoodlouse that reminds me of when my brother was young and decided he didn't like turkey. We had a "big chicken" for Christmas for many years, my brother never complained.

In our house we can't mention my parents or DS runs to the door and gets very grumpy when we don't go to visit them.

Peppa is the 'pink porky thing' in our house. Some things get translated into pigeon french, eg 'le boingy chateau' (bouncy castle).

Peppa pig = salted pork

Yellow bendy fruit. If either kid gets wind of one, they go on and on and on until they get one.

DC2 is cheese obsessed. We call that hard dairy product. And her bedtime bottle is the beverage of doom.

Shrunken grapes = grapes
Monkey snack = banana
Celtic = dummy (DH loves Celtic FC as much as DD loved her dummy).

Shrunken grapes = raisins

face palms

Yellow things that start with b = Bananas :)

Seriously, if that's the one in Dulwich,

On the reverse, we managed to get our next door neighbour's child to eat roast lamb by calling it burger. Three helpings went down, with veg and roast potatoes and gravy and red current jelly... His DM was enraged because he refused to eat hers or her DM's when called roast lamb.

Likewise with one of DS's cousins who was going through a Robin Hood phase and would eat nothing if it was not venison. So everything became venison. Fish, green beans, lamb, crumble. Down the little red hatch it went happily.