All of our kids have different ways of saying certain things don’t they? They develop their own speech translations for certain words and most of the time it’s adorable and we don’t correct it (or at least, I don’t).
Both of my children are in speech language therapy and work hard to correct their words and make the proper sounds. My daughter is working on her ‘f’ sounds right now – first, four, flower, fun – and my son is focusing on ‘L’ in the middle of words especially – below, follow – etc.
But over the years, some of their words have become our words. Nachos are still called ‘cho chos’ in this house. Once at the speech therapist appointment, my daughter was talking about grandpa who she calls ‘bampa’. I translated for the therapist but insisted we aren’t working to correct that. We call grandpa ‘bampa’ now and it’s adorable.
I have on video somewhere my son describing how he was hungry – which at the time he pronounced ‘horny’. Which, of course, we thought was hilarious.
One of my favourites is how my daughter says ‘ate. As in ‘you ate my bagel’. She says ‘you H my bagel’. Replace ate with H and I dare you not to giggle. Adorable.
Yes, we are working hard on proper use of sounds and language, but these smalls pieces of their childhood won’t all be corrected at once. I’m holding onto their little voices and sounds as long as I can.
Do you have favourite words that your children have been saying?
This is adorable. My son never really had any words he does not pronounce well but he turns them into words he knows. For instance, do you know that traditional Italian cake name panettone? It’s something we often have for breakfast and here is a sample of the conversations we’ve had for a few months:
“S., do you want some panettone”
“Sonotone? What is a sonotone?”
“I am offering you some PANETTONE. See that cake on the table? That’s a Panettone”.
“Yes, I want some badminton”
And then I record that on my blog. Because really, you never ever want to forget!
adorable!!I love those conversations that end up being so sweet
Love that – I actually have a hidden page on my blog where I’ve started writing all the silly things she says so I can remember.
oh! you are smart! I wish I had kept a list somewhere!
my 7yo had his own way to talk. I found it so cute. I am so sad he is outgrowing it. I miss it already.
I know that many of these sounds will change – and I don’t want to paint the speech therapy we are doing in a soft light, it’s important. But some are word changes that are just right it seems 😉
Here’s my fave: my 2 yr old, until recently, pronounced “s” as “f”. So “socks” came out “focks”…if he got the “o” right 😉
And the best manifestation of this…he came toddling into the living room one day, in bare feet (removing his clothing had recently become a hobby). My husband said “hey bud, where are your socks?” to which my little darling replied, with a big smile: “fock off.”
that’s awesome!!!
Maggie has recently been declaring things to be ‘frustruating,’ most often cold winds. I’m not sure where she picked up the word frustrating or what she thinks it means, but I like it.
Love the big words. Ds was like that, and it would throw us off. My mom would come to visit and he’d say some big adult word like a little man. Too cute 😉
omg that is amazing! lol