One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
Pretty confident several of those names were invented by the parents, not the kids.
My daughter called umbrellas, “rainbrellas” We still use the term.
Growing up, I called buffets “pick out dinners” since you could “pick out” what you wanted to eat. I’m now almost 60 and in my family, they are still “pick out dinners”
My son referred to croutons as “salad cookies.” They still call them that. It’s more fun. He’s 12 now.
As a 3 year old in 1949 I referred to the stick shift as the ‘gearsenshifter’!
In German, gloves are “hand shoes”.
Just sayin’…
“Mum!” my 7 year old nephew shouted, “the windowputterinerer” wants a cup of tea!”
So that’ll be the double glazing fitter then…
My 9 year old informed me that spoons should be called mouth shovels…and so it shall be.
My son referred to the area behind your knee as his “knee pit”
My daughter called potato peels potato jackets.
At about 5 my youngest saw rugby and asked if it was football to the death
My baby brother at about 4 or so, called windshield wipers ‘window wiper shields’. My family uses this still. he’s 55 now.
Kids! What do they know?
When I was little I thought tummy aches were called tummy eggs, and that every time I got pain in my tummy I had an egg in there causing the pain.
When my daughter was about 3, she looked out of the window and pointing at a vapour trail said “Look Mummy, plane poo. ” I remember that every time I see one now.
In German, gloves actually translates to “Handschuhe” “hand shoes” so that child wasn’t too far off.
Had a high school ESL student soccer player come see me for help with his “foot finger.” I didn’t want to laugh because he was trying really hard to use English. So I said “which toe is it?” He started laughing and said, “ I couldn’t remember this word, toe. Foot finger! Psssshhhht” So I got to giggle too.
When my grandson was about 2 he called snow ho ho ice.
I could not say “Vacuum cleaner” when I was a preschooler. I called them a”Bathroom Cleaner”
I had a 3rd grader ask what the “eye goblin“ on the board was used for. She came and pointed to the semi colon.
My daughter (now a PhD) called my calculator a “countelator” and my orthodontist a “toothdontist” when she was about 2. Tots acquisition of language has fascinated me ever since.
At around 4, my son referred to diarrhea “fart mud”. In the same vein, he had phonics homework a few years later. Write a sentence with a hard “a”: “He farted in a jar with his partner.” No, I didn’t help him.
My niece called a convertible, a “car that the lid comes off”
Cemeteries: Marble Orchards
My daughter: ‘babysitter’ was a stroller, “sciencer” was scientist, and the first time she saw a ferret she called it a ‘weasel’. Seeing as ferrets are in the same family we were impressed. We were less impressed when she would point out every cemetery as ” Where the dead people live”.
We called scratches and scrapes ”Owies.” Tiny daughter called them “wowies.” Never corrected her.
My 3yo twins were afraid of the “alligator” in their school. Turns out that was the elevator. Also scary, if you’re worried of going inside it without an adult… less scary than thinking an actual alligator was in the school though.
My son called over easy eggs “bumpy eggs”, popcorn shrimp “shrimp guys”, cremette elbow macaroni “c noodles” … and that’s what all of them are still called today… after 30 years!
My niece made sure to tell me she didn’t like Farmer John cheese on her spaghetti. Took me a minute to figure out parmesan cheese, but it’s been Farmer John cheese ever since. Another niece was fascinated seeing farmers on their combines harvesting wheat, she asked how often they scraped the fields. We told her it was only during scraping season.
When looking through a book of pictures of tools in a toolbox, my preschool son couldn’t remember the name “tape measure” and called it a “foot machine” (because it measures feet and inches).
My daughter called buffalo “ofabos”.
When my 4 year old saw a man with an eye patch she asked whether he was a pirate or just had a bad eye bulb.
The cake that’s not a cake: Cheesecake
When my daughter was young she called napkins “lap-kins”. Makes sense
My son called his little toddler bathing suit his “baby suit.”
At two, my son cried because he wanted to continue stomping in the mud puddle at the end of the driveway. He called it a “muddle.”
I miss my son’s toddler speak. He is another kid that said “knee pit”. Cream cheese was “cheesy butter”, and his forehead was his “bonk”! LOL
I was burning incense and my not yet two year old pointed to it and said “fire flower.”
My son was 3 when we refurbished an old house a putting up new insulation, my son called it itchulation and rightly so😊
My husband keep speeding up just before the light turned red. So my toddler called the yellow light the “fast light.”
My son calls popcorn shrimp “fish meatballs.”
I have a “refridge-a-gator” to keep milk cold and a daughter who is “out of remote control” as per her triplet brother’s verbiage. They are now 10 and we still have a “refridge-a-gator” and “out of remote control”
children on occasion.
When my son was learning to read, he told me his cereal (mini wheats) had rainbow flavor (riboflavin). I never corrected him and that’s what I call it now.
As we rounded a corner and saw a group of Texas longhorns grazing in a field, my friend’s young son piped-up with, “Look, there’s some Texas lawnmowers!”
The little boy across the street couldn’t say “quesadilla” and instead it came out as “turtle pizza”. So it has been ever since!
When my daughter was around 3 she called her knees Kneebows
I used to call cauliflower, flowercofter. My son called buttons, buttnons.
My niece could not say rubberband She called it bang gum
We’d ask her say rubber she did
We’d ask her say band she did
We’d ask her say rubberband she said bang gum
I called the lawn mower the motor grasser
If truth be told, the word for “glove” in German is “handschuhe,” or “hand shoe.”