Teach toddler 'yes' instead of 'yeah'?

[BlueAndBlue]

How does 'yeah' (instead of 'yes') sound to British-born ears in the mouth of a toddler?

DH and I both Kiwi, we wonder whether we should try and change our 3yo DS's habit of saying 'yeah' instead of 'yes'.

Or should we just not bother?

Fyi: his habit probably comes from our nanny who says 'yeah' a lot and is also a wonderful nanny.

I realise the answer to my question will depend on background/education but happy to hear any opinion.

I think yeah sounds like a teenager so encourage my small ones to say 'yes'. I will have teenagers one day and I can but hope they continue to say yes (who I am kidding!)

My battle at the moment is trying to get my one year old to say thank you or even thanks rather than 'ta'. Ta makes me irrationally cross but everyone around me keeps saying it to him!

Ahaha yes the 'ta', I think I understand where you're coming from. Thanks for sharing!

Probably best to adopt 'yes' if you can, as that will be more useful at school, when he gets there.

But, probably, as children get older they will adapt their speech to fit in with the people they are talking to.

I think its very important to teach children to speak properly.

I ve never said "ta" to dd whos 2.7 its always been thank you. If you said ta to dd she wouldnt know what you meant.

My sister has taught dd to say "get off" when having a play tug of war with her. Im now correcting dd and telling her its let go please not get off!!

I've always said yes to my DS (22 months) but it usually comes out as yea rather than a full yes.

As for 'ta' I really disagree with all of the fuss, we said ta to my DS when he was learning to form words. Ta as a sound is much easier to say but still encourages children to be polite, we then we started swapping it with thank you and now he has impeccable manners.