Does your DK brings home new sounds and words which irritate you?

[Octavia09]

I sometimes see some classmates of my DS making sounds like they are living in the wild. Then one day DS come and makes some sounds like he is also coming from the jungle or I do not even know where from. It irritates me a lot because it makes him sound like an idiot. Is it normal for the kids at reception (I hope not in year 1) to immitate each other? What do you tell you DC if they sound silly? Do teachers pay attention to these sounds or they just take it as a part of growing up?

Sorry, thought you meant phonics and spellings...

(scuttling away again)

Ha! Mine comes home with some shocking phrases....she keeps calling her pudding her "afters" and saying "pardon me" in a weird way...."P'don me" when I have always told her to say "Excuse me".

Her little friend also says "Oh my God!" which I HATE coming from a child of 6!

mine has taken to calling tomato sauce 'Dib Dab'

Anenome - yesterday my 2 year old said, to my absolute dismay "Oh for Gods sake!" when she was struggling to get her boot on

I think it continues well past reception if my 2 DCs are anything to go by (now Y2 and Y4) OK the noises seem to have reduced, but the phrases they use - argh! Oh bumcakes! is a particular favourite of mine

ds came home and said 'haitch' when spelling. Hate it.

Oh, I thought this was about phonics too! Calling pudding 'afters'...I haven't heard that for ages!

My DD, then 3, was struggling to get a shoe on and - I swear this is true - said "Oh you c**ksucker". Honestly.
I was beyond shocked, still have no idea where she could ever have heard the word. We did used to live near some fairly ripe characters and some children used to shout swearwords over the fence (poor DD spent one summer indoors because of them) but that took the jammie dodger.
She's never said it since though and has hopefully forgotten it.

Sorry Octavia09 it definitely continues past reception and as a teacher I always ask them to stop

Unfortuately it appears to continue, but the thing that I tell my dc is there are things you say on the playground, and there are things you say to Grandma, and if you want to stay in Grandma's good book you will remember which way round this occurs

Oh that is so funny!

We have a whole list of things we can't say at Granny's eg. pardon, toilet, and definitely no swearing!

I say Whatever -- but as a native Californian I do it so much better than DC, so they can't really compete . I actually teach DC to say it as a retort to playground teasing, tbh.

DC say the "haitch" thing and drop their Ts in words like butter, computer.... I am not impressed with those.

JoBettany the one that will set Grandma on edge the most is bum. As in 'sit on your bum' then watch her react 'BOTTOM!'

I think granny is okay with bum...must get DS to try that one out on her....

Also settee and housecoat set her teeth gnashing. I have no idea why.

Sometimes DS says something I do not even know the meaning. I have to write it down and then check on line.
I remember when he went to his nursery school he had started making irritating sounds of the driving bus/car (very annoying). I could see that did not come from him. Then he started talking about a little boy at his nursery. I managed to see that boy playing with vehicles and he was making exactly the same sounds. So, they are like monkeys or parrots, whatever.
Here at his school there is a boy who is always behaving rather wild, lots of sounds I would not tolerate at home. Mrz gives me hope that it is only happening before the lessons start then it is going to be stopped. I think by the end of the lessons the kids become pretty tired.

P.S. In the nursery my DS picked up "oh dear, it is almost 11 o'clock" using oh dear with the time only. Who did it come from :)

It continues well into seconadry I'm afraid!We have the word 'randon' dropped into every concievable sentence, they start talking 'text speak', missing out conjunctions, and seem to develop strange body ticks like hair tossing and eye rolling...

why is Donna Karan in my life?

hair tossing and eye rolling

Monkey see monkey do.

I'm really shocked by this thread. Its called learning language, yes, they learn from everyone around them and not just from some pre-approved list.

They will learn to speak differently in different circumstances, but only once they've got a good range to start with. Of course you can make it clear that certain words upset you, but if the list is very long you are just giving good grist for a battle.

And as for OP complaining because your DS makes driving sounds sound like you are complaining that he is playing. Making driving sounds while playing with cars is GOOD. It shows his imagination is at work, it is not a bad habit that he picked up at nursery

witlesssarah, do not overdramatise my post. There is nothing so shocking about it. Reading other people's comments I can see that this is a very normal behaviour for the very young primary school pupils. My younger DS behaves like that but he is two which is not 4 or 5. That is why this reminds me of the story "Monkey see, monkey do".
As for the cars, it did sound horribly unnatural because of his immitation. I know how he plays with cars and it does not make me like I want to run out of the house. He used to do it in the nursery, so it does not bother me know.

Witless, I wish you'd tell my mum that! I actually think she has got a pre-approved list

My mother's particular pet hate was "dinner money." I remember any word, phrase, song or sound my mother objected to would become my favourite thing for a while. She also hated a song about a girl called Susie, who left her knickers in her boyfriend's car as a teenager...

Still sounds like fun rabbit!

I know what you mean, OP. Dd came home from school the other day reciting Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. Aaaarggghhh!