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…
Our son said mork for milk. We started saying it also. After he turned 3 he started correcting us!
My daughter loved maca onnies and cheese.
my little girl wanted mustard and catshit on her hot dog
When my son was small he used to call farts ‘botty burps’ – perfect !!
My daughter couldn’t say “umbrella” but called it an “under-brella” because you stand under it.
“Mustard and catshit” Oh how I laughed!
My daughter called Laurel and Hardy “hardy and lardy”. woody woodpecker was “woody the pecker” national geographic was “national jesusgraphic”
my friend’s child calls it a Hair “cup” instead of cut
My son, at three, called to let paper “potty towels”!
If my 3 yr old didn’t know if an adult was a man or woman she would say, “hello Mr. Mame!”
My daughter used to call outhouses “potty boxes”, I wish it would’ve stuck! She also used to call a spatula an “ansuler”. I have absolutely no idea where that came from! #kidsaresoweird
When my son was 4, he misheard his sister Julie’s softball coach telling batters, “Good eye!” So, whenever Julie would go to bat, he’d yell “One eye, Dooley! One eye!”
My daughter was not just accident prone…..we could never dress her in white ……her shoes were dog poo beacons…… and she had “bat ears” with remarkable recall…ie moaning about going to the inlaws ……
Oh yes …… “I dont know why Daddy can’t be arsed with this…… its so fun!!” So grown up for her years…..-around 5yrs old with a little speach impediment –
We started calling her “Our Liability”…… (Fondly of course) but, with in days of explaning what we ment…..
“im not a Lull-i-bility”!!!! ……. to this day, nearly a decade on… “Lull-i-billity” is the fondest and most memorable slight of word that i will always smile and hug my self for xxx
My son wanted a cold cake. He wanted the carvel flying saucers in the freezer. He’s 14 and we still say it lmao
my daughter called the rescue maneuver ḦEIMLICH REMOVER
After having problems at school I dropped of my 8 year old and said to him remember what I told you “take no shit”
My 4 year old overheard and shouted “yeah billy tickle shit” I much prefer his version so did billy
My son called Independence Day
“The Four Chubble-Lye”
Our EMTs picked up a guy once. He was ESL. Told them he’d tucked up the fingers on his feet.
Sally X, I was a bat eared kid too! So much so that my parents started talking in pig latin but I could understand it within a week or two! I think they knew I out smarted them when discussing dinner in another room and I heard one of them say izzapay and I yelled YES, I want Pizza!
My son used to sing Aussie national anthem (wrong words) Australia circus Africa – for we are young and green !
My 6 y/o daughter – on looking at an octopus – said ‘look mummy – you can see his testicles’.. (0ctopusses will forever more lack tentacles in our house !)
And her twin sister had a favourite song ‘skirtyshirt’ put the skirtyshirt song on mum ! (Amy Winesouses’ rolled up sleeves on SCA Tee shirt )
My son told all his friends at preschool that he loved it on special nights when Mom made “old rotten potatoes”. I ended up explaining to his teacher about au gratin potatoes.
My kids called palm trees ‘Bahamas trees’ and put on ‘sunscream’ before going outside. There were also ‘callapitters’ and ‘ aminals’’ and also the color ‘greem’.
My little sister used to call it a “hair-brella” (umbrella) and my son used to say “wop-wops” instead of flip flops.
When my son was 3, he called cinnamon buns “breakfast cakes”.
My son called his big toes his thumb toes.
My son around 5ish called the assembly instructions “Constructions”. He explained no one was coming to instruct us.
Melk…. in stead of Milk lol
When offered cole slaw in a cafeteria line, my daughter asked why they were always trying to make her eat that “cold slop.”
When my then 4yo saw fireworks for the first time he named them Boom Lights.
My granddaughter calls long sleeve shirts “sleeve down shirts”.
40 years ago my son was sweeping with a broom – I asked him what he was doing and he said he was brooming the porch. It’s still brooming to me.
My son, 7YO, called parmesan cheese Amazon Cheese. His mother and I still call it Amazon cheese and he corrects us. Our 3YO calls Taquitos bow-keet-toes and thinks they’re for breakfast!
A neighbor-kid of mine called bark “wood skin.”
One night we had scallops for dinner. My son, then 4, was excited to eat ‘marshmallow fish’.
We have two children, boy and girl. Our girl called instructions “constructions” and our boy called thm “destructions” seemed to separate the sexes fairly accurately.
My oldest daughter referred to her lady parts as a front butt and then my son tells us he has “tessies” (testicles). Our baby walks around grabbing her diaper and just yelling BOOP!
My friend’s son calls ground beef “cow spaghetti”
When my youngest was two he would say giddy gah for get ya get ya when we were tickling him, so he started running around with a curtain rod saying giddy gah as if he was going to attack , he had also put a small square trash can on his head at the time. Then my oldest son started saying he loved us bonk-a-dees and great bunches, instead of bunches and bunches. We still use them to this day and they are 38 and 40!
When we went to the ATM to get money, my oldest called it a polluter, and it always had money whether we did or not!
My kids always called spaghetti pasghetti
My grandson called his underware “underwares”
My 4 year old daughter calls cucumbers “cuembutters” lol so now we do as well.
My 4 year old calls the britta water filter container in our fridge a regenerater. Mom the regenerater needs filled again.
My 5 year old son calls beef jerky “travel bacon” .
My older son started talking at 9months & had a lot to say. He had a Big Wheels he referred to as “gong gong” which we thought was it’s name but then he started identifying triangles and other items that had sets of 3 as gong gongs. Sometimes he was downright creepy, like the time he was sitting in his high chair, playing with a couple of chopsticks. He held them together at the base and said, “Bird”. I said, “Yes, and V.” and then HE said, “FIVE”. So did he jump to this life straight from the Roman Forum?
He was about 5 when he passed gas in his sleep and announced, “Trumpet bowel.”
One night, while saying his bedtime prayers – Now I lay me down to sleep – he interrupted me & with a look of great concern on his face, asked, “Mama, what’s a layme?”
His younger brother would tell us about his “mid-air” friends he visited with when all the rest of us were asleep. We never figured out whether the term came from “thin air” or was his own creation based on his sleep state. Breakfast was breffax for years.
When my son was about 3 he would call the elevator an alligator!
My X called the accelerator pedal an exhilarator pedal as a kid. My kids and I still call it that.
My sister called woostershire sauce wizzerwicky. And bacon Bangy. I once called a car full of nuns ‘spooks’
my son dubbed creamette elbow macaroni “c-noodles” … and that’s the only thing we’ve ever called them (still… to this day!)
over-easy eggs were “bumpy eggs”
popcorn shrimp were “shrimp guys”
I called intestines Einstein’s…. Still cant break myself of it!
My son said his favorite bird was a pecker wood. (Wood pecker)
My daughter sound like she said ‘f-cking milk’ instead of chocolate milk. Lol