When they start talking like rejected extras for Top Boy...

[resipsa]

...how do you react? Laugh and hope it passes? Ignore? Imitate? Advice please as it's driving me mad, fam, innit.

Did the op say her kid was white? Black or white they still sound like knob heads when they speak like dat innit.

I just ignore it as they do it more if I rise to it.

It’s awful 😫they all sound really rough, I don’t know why nice kids want to speak like idiots. They all live in tracksuits too, you never see teenage boys in a shirt and jeans anymore. I don’t get society’s obsession with urban culture

I just keep correcting them. Gets on their nerves but they stop doing it around me.

I can't lie

It's not that deep tho'

...is the latest from my DS

My go to is:
"My name is Skyler White, yo.
My husband is Walter White, yo."

Or "How are doing, my mammals?"

Essentially I'll use any current cringe factor with 11 year old DD daily, but I rein it in a little bit when she's got friends round. I'll still get a quote in here and there. Best part of being a parent, so long as you're fully aware of when to shut up and bugger off. In which case I'll dance away enough for a good eye roll and go read a book in my bedroom while I've got some alone time

My nephew spoke like that to my dad once. Dad rolled his eyes and answered him in the old local dialect followed with "see it ain't just you young'uns that talk daft, we old buggers been doing it fer years".

Do it back at him. It's the only way.

My friend who is a headmaster was called blud by a pupil last week. Friend responded by offering the young fool a complicated handshake.

Similar to PP’s dad (brilliant) Invent your own - maybe a mix of Yoda and Shakespeare

How do you know the OP is white? Slang makes anyone look like a knobhead, white or black

Tell them everything is dope and sick. Then when you’ve had enough, tell them you’re sick of them being a dope. No, I’m not serious. I just find the language amusing. And lots of it’s not that deep when you want them to do something...

Here’s a teen speak translation thread. Idk if theres a more up to date one. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4122155-Teen-Speak-Translation-Thread-2021?page=1

DH came home from doing the football run last week despairing over the way the four boys in his car were talking.

He asked one lad how his trip to a sixth form open day had gone and gotten the reply "sick man, girls are leng" to which all the others chimed back "peng leng".

Its all about the Ps, Fam.

Reminds me of the voice clip of Michelle Williams reading the Justin Timberlake bit of Britney’s memoir that’s going around 😂

Some more lingo to throw back…

https://www.verywellfamily.com/a-teen-slang-dictionary-2610994

https://www.bark.us/blog/teen-text-speak-codes-every-parent-should-know/

https://gamequitters.com/teen-slang-meanings/

Wagwan?

😭 <—- not a crying emoji.

It fucks me off especially when SS is from a nice area. He sounds like a dickhead.

Yes my G.
Man knows exactly what you're saying innit.
Same ting for me ya feel me?
Right so boom this is what you do yeah?
When man comes home chattin all reckless and that... copy him innit.
Learn all my youth's talk and bang it out before man. Get me?

Sometimes I learn the lyrics to whatever crap song they keep repeating lyrics for and rap it loudly round the house until they hate it. The latest I learnt was a Digga D song. Haven't heard it played since I rapped it at the dinner table

Ay bro where did you learn how to chat like that. You’re really out here sounding like mandem

Ask them if they're always going to act like a wasteman.

Love it! 🤣

I live in the Marches and it makes me laugh to hear the local Welsh-Birmingham-who knows hybrid accent overridden with a bit of famalam action.

Take the piss, do it back, tell them they sound stupid. None of them have worked so far 😭

I think it's quite fun...if you can't beat them, join them!