6 year old using the word ‘sigma’

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I’m sure many of us have seen Adolescence. It absolutely terrified me and has really made me think about the influences around my DS, who is 6. He came home from school and mentioned the word ‘sigma’ twice this weekend. I know it’s nothing he’s heard of seen at home (I keep the apps he has access to at age-appropriate levels and monitor what he watches), but he may have heard this at breakfast or after school club, where he mixes with older children. Has anyone else come across this? How are you handling it? I’m a millennial mum but I work with a lot of Gen-Z people and I’ve heard a lot of the terminology, so I feel quite alert to it. The question is how to deal with it. I think I’m going to mention it to the school as whilst these terms may be mentioned just because they’ve heard other people saying them, the meaning behind them is somewhat sinister and I worry for my DS and other children. Many thanks

“Sigma boy”
the 2025 gangnum style

We did the bra one too! It was like a modern (and female) version of the ages of man, the equivalent of ode to his mistresses' eyebrow

I have no idea either. My 9 and 11 year don't seem to say any of this stuff - I don't know what any of these pps mean! I feel very old now.

Since I started working in a school, we've had (to name but a few);

21
My name is Jeff
Cheese Touch
Bottle flipping
Salt Bey
Slay Queen
POV
Sigma
Skibidi toilet
Mewing
6,7

It comes, it goes. 🤷🏻

Incidentally, '6,7' makes maths lessons a bleedin' nightmare.

Sigma to me is a DJ. I've just googled it, but I still don't see anything concerning with the word.

You’re going to feel a bit stupid if it turns out his teacher has been teaching them the Greek alphabet.

Gid, that takes me back!!

😂😂

As a clearly not with it Xennial Mother, What's the sinister connotations is sigma?

I learned sigma by that age in phonics class it means a syllable.
Around 10 I learned the maths usage where sigma means the sum of all

The small letter sigma (σ) is used to represent standard deviation in math and statistics. It is also used to show syllable in linguistic, a shielding constant in chemistry and sum of divisors in math. The capital letter sigma (Σ) means to sum up in mathematics.

My DD9 said to me the other day" pooks your fit is slay today - your a proper sigma girl but not a pick me girl" ???? I had no idea whether she was been nice or mean

Omgm. Flashbacjs
My name is Elvis Presley
Girlfriend Lesley
Sitting in the back seat
Nudge nudge
Had a baby
In the navy
I can't remember the rest.

Omgm. Flashbacjs
My name is Elvis Presley
Girlfriend Lesley
Sitting in the back seat
Nudge nudge
Had a baby
In the navy
I can't remember the rest.

I think you look nice and you're being independent rather than trying to impress. So nice.

Speaking of negative culture, kids on the playground were still singing the original lyrics to catch a (—)ger by the toe and chasing Black kids when I was a kid. Also all of we Jewish kids would be put in the middle of a murder ball circle and the kids would throw basketballs at our heads and laugh as we tried to dodge them. Teachers would smoke, smile and watch the white supremacy olympics. Only white kids were allowed on the swings, the Black kids were forced to go on the “monkey bars”. School was hell.

God, the 6, 7 thing drives me nuts.
Lol at the PP who said it makes maths lessons a nightmare 😂

I have young teen boys and have been hearing skibidi, sigma and bruh for a long time. Oh and the Italian brain rot thing too 🙄

Six, seven has reached us here in East Asia and the kids go crazy in class when asked to turn to page 6 or 7. I counter it with ‘sorry, 6 ran away’ (because 789).
When I was at school the ones that probably drove parents/teachers crazy were “When suzy was a teenager” (as mentioned upthread), “2 become 1” (had no idea of what it meant), and in my early teens, anything said by Austin Powers, Kevin the Teenager or Ali G.

I remember ‘when Suzy was a teenager - isn’t that the start of ooh ahh I lost my bra’? classic memories!
My DCs are early 20s but they still come out with some choice phrases …
I was WhatsApping my son about a TV programme we’re both watching where someone died - he said ‘it’s peak innit?’ No idea what he’s on about!!
And a ‘baddie’ is someone who looks good.

Whatever it is, if it's a 'thing' in the Colchester / Clacton area, it must be giving the powers that be in a certain MAT some grief. The two joint schools' sixth forms are called Sigma Sixth...

As for songs about underwear, the mislaying of, when I was in c.first year juniors, in the playground we used to sing various little songs in what possibly passed for French (no, I've no idea why, either - this was in Staffordshire). As to what they translated as, goodness only knows, but if the lyrics were actually rude, I can only assume that the teachers' grasp of the language was even less secure than ours.

2 become 1 was massive when I was in primary school. I just wanted to be a spice girl but I can guarantee my parents weren’t happy about the songs 😂

My child is fluent in Italian brain rot!

it’s normal . Don’t worry. It’s all generation alpha lingo.

My tween son talks really fast and I don't actually know what he is saying. I can make out some words but I don't know what they mean. 😂
I spend a lot of time saying 'speak slowly and clearly in a language I can understand and then i can help you with whatever it is you are trying to say to me'

Here it's:.

6, 7
Flem
Skibbidi
Toilet
Rizz
Shay!!!!

I quite like 'Shay!!!' I say it silently on teams quite a lot

My 3 year old daughters favourite song 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

This has set me on a nostalgic reverie thinking about the naughty playground rhymes we used to sing in primary school. “My friend Billy” was a favourite and there’s the less well known “Down in Jamaica there’s a Rubber Tree”. These are both of a 1960s vintage as far as I know, while the libellous “Georgie Best, Superstar” is likely to originate in the early 1970s. Needs a thread, really.

The kids are just using it to mean "cool".

Regardless of the origins, I wouldn't worry too much. Kids are picking up memes from older siblings. My son started singing the Skibidi toilet song in reception, and I looked it up and thought the videos were too violent to show him, but I don't care if he knows the song.

I'm leaning in to the 67 thing and making stupid jokes with my son where the answer is 67.