When your children are learning to speak

Very funny.
We used to remind our children about some of their early sayings ,
e.g.
“I keen, nooo” with a shudder, when asked if they wanted ice-cream, or “wuffa cudda.”
if they had fallen over.

DD2 at 3 called raisins bups. And if we said "they're raisins say raisins". She would say raisins and then under her breath say bups.
They did look a bit more like a bup in their little red box!

Thats why we have 'em! This was really needed this morning MissA, thankyou

DD called grapes ‘mores’. We always had a bowl of grapes and we asked ‘Do you want some more?’
Elephants were ‘ bompies’ ’. As reading to her I always said ‘ and the elephant goes bumpy, bompy, bompy.’

My daughter was in the verge of a tantrum because she wanted "dibits", and i didn't understand what she meant.
It turned out it was a boiled egg, with toast soldiers, so she could "dibit" into the yolk

My daughter caller her younger brother, Steven, (only 18 months between them) Teedan. It stuck until they went to school. My youngest g’dtr who had trouble pronouncing Fs asked for hishytings for tea. Took me too long to realise she wanted fish fingers.

Unfortunately, I began, and still use, the children's words for things. eg gissy or gisgit for biscuits and blehbleh for elephant. I could go on...

My DD needed speech therapy before she started school as I was the only one who could understand her. At the initial assessment she was asked to name various items in a book. The only one she said correctly was garage.
My granddaughter used to call the washing machine the washing it clean.
It stuck and I still call it that today.

My Son knocked his front teeth out when he was 3, unfortunately the head teacher at the nursery school he went to was called Mr Tucker 🙈 - I'll leave the rest to your imagination 😂

In a bigger family the funny words invented by first child tend to get passed down. Our younger children all used first child’s words.
Youngest child told us there was someone called Zero at school (quite likely now but not then). It turned out her name was Desiree.

My DD2 used to call slippers: "flipters" and breakfast was "grekfuts". It hasn't held her back - she is now a successful Headteacher of a large primary school!

My DS, aged two, on seeing me sit down with a much needed cuppa: "Are you having a piece of quiet, Mummy?!"

Aveline

Unfortunately, I began, and still use, the children's words for things. eg gissy or gisgit for biscuits and blehbleh for elephant. I could go on...

Likewise 😀

Biscuit: "sgiggit", computer: "ompinter", crisps: "cripsips" and so on.

It’s cruelty to children to make them watch England be crushed by Mexico 😂

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Very sweet story about your daughter MissAdventure

Grapes were num mums, Perfume was perfenume & Grandad was Poor Foot after an accident left his ankle in plaster.

My son called one item of clothing a 'clo'. His logic seemed faultless..

DD had four fingers and a flum...

Sadly I've forgotten any others.

MaizieD
I remember my child saying “only one bed clo” in the hot summer months. Similar logic.

'Hakkylopter' for 'helicopter' - from my younger daughter.

Our eldest called potatoes ‘bdoodoos’.
We adopted the word for quite some time.

My DD used to say aminals and elephantoms.

My almost 4 year old dgc still asks me for a bick-sit rather than a biscuit.

DD3 called slippers bibbers and elephants ooloots.
DD5 called magazines mazageens - this continued until well into her teens.
DGS1 called chocolate clockclock and said grundground for playground.

For a while my Grandaughter called be Bambi instead of Granny. Loved it but her big sister corrected her repeatedly until she used the correct name. I was very sad as I loved being Bambi.

When I had a cleaning blitz my daughter said I had spinkled the whole house.