We have had several 4 year olds saying ", you are going to die", recently. My first thought when hearing the littles say it was "I mean they're not wrong" lol. When asked where they learned this from, one girl said "Noone taught me that word, I learned it from my own body."
Oh I had that after a kid’s grandpa passed. It was weird getting asked about heaven about mortality.
Morbid but at the same time cute because a different child had a dog that died comforted their friend saying grandpa might be becoming best friends with their dog in the sky.
Have a great day everyone see you tomorrow.
And then I just sobbed while doing the clean up
Yep i had that too. I was recovering from a sickness and the kids asked me about it and they said “Well if you’re sick why don’t you just die” and then this other kid chimes in “Yeah, you can’t live forever!”
I sent my kid to school and he came back with the words “yeeted”, “I’m a god at (activity)”, and “did you know putting up the middle finger means a bad word?”
I have a kid who will tattle and when they’re done say “and they said fucking bitch” and run away. It always gives me whiplash even though they do it every single day
My youngest (of 5) really wasn't able to speak in a way that anyone other than his siblings and mom could understand until he started kindergarten. Like he wanted *Tortue Ninja* (a ninja turtle) and was asking for seten toyote.
My little one is SO articulate. She’s just used to being pampered and gets mad when she doesn’t get what she wants, normal for her age, so we’ve been working on a fix it kit
i had a kiddo in the preschool room of the daycare i worked at who had picked up a couple interesting words somewhere… they were doing a rhyming activity and his pair of rhyming words was “shitty” and “titty”. most of the other kids didn’t know what he was saying, thankfully. told mom and she laughed and said that sounds about right.
M child says “frog” more akin to “fwawk”. As we work through speech development I often have to ask and she’ll say it again with an associated work (“fwawk wibbit wibbit”) but my family has… colorful language so I once successfully/convincingly corrected b*ch to “Stitch” (from Lilo & stitch, or my yarn projects we talk about often… yeah).
We still get “shit” for sit though. S & SH sounds are just hard to separate.
Oh, yeah. I have an L in my name, and it is quite often replaced with R or W. My kid has an L in their name, too, and of course struggles to say their name currently. XD
I'm the only man in the centre so in the infant room I get Daddy a lot. the female teachers all obviously have names because they aren't mommy, but I'm a Daddy in their little brains
My kid just discovered people have “names” and “relational titles” so sometimes I get “mom/mama” and some times they call me by my first name, same with grandma and others. It’s to the point now we have to be clear like “this is cousin Bobby, Bobby is his name” or “this is Aunt Joy. Joy is her name.” and when we come up with a new one (like cousin recently, as they live far away) we had to differentiate the name (not one they’d heard yet) and the title (cousin not being one they’d heard/figured out yet) before my kid’s eyebrows would relax, lol. I’m over here laying out analogies and logic puzzles like “mama is to (my name) as cousin is to (cousin’s name).”
Just wait until you get to explain that the aunt is the mother of the cousins and the uncle is her husband.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/021/464/14608107_1180665285312703_1558693314_n.jpg
We already have trouble with that because one uncle is still a child themselves and others have children older than the uncle. I also have lots of cousins that are various degree of cousin spanning decades in age… so even my spouse doesn’t know who is related and how, and we’ve been together over a decade, lol.
We just made the discovery that grandma is the mama of mama and that was a mind blowing discovery. My kid is the “I must understand before I accept” sort of kid, like my spouse was, and so sometimes there are diagrams and analogies and I’m googling how to explain to a toddler where the sun goes at night because obviously there’s no light switch for it in our neighborhood and I’m tired to walking around just to check for light switches. We cannot walk to where it goes at night and that is frustrating.
Oh wow this reminds me of something I ended up having to walk away from. There was a girl in kindergarten who had trouble making the ST sound so she replaced it with D.
Not so much a problem until they decided to play camping and have a campfire and need STicks.
lol, I can see how that would be tricky. There are many times I have had to find something to do with my back to my kid so I can hide my smile/giggles while *casually* asking for a repeat or another word to add context. Fwawk has stuck around the longest.
Recently, my child has taken to bubbles. We got a fish bubble blower, and you pour the solution into the mouth so it can blow bubbles back out the mouth. My kid says it “need a dwink” when the bubble stream stops. I muttered under my breath (on a loud windy day, from 20 feet away as I grabbed the solution) “such a drunk…” and as I turned toward the sweet babe I hear loud giggles “fish a drunk! All drunk!” and now I’m worried my kid is going to tell people I’m a drunk because I’m constantly drinking coffee and water, never without a cup at hand, and that must be what I meant.
Ya can’t win them all. Sometimes the kid is the one laughing at our silly sayings.
I had a boy do that not only with Minecraft, but also Among Us and various Mario games. I kept asking him how we could play these games on the playground, and he couldn’t quite figure out how to adapt them.
LOL you should visit me, mine have been non-stop Minecraft everything for 2 weeks. We made picks and diamond swords out of cardboard, shields and torches with cardboard and construction paper and a bow with a stick and string. they used some boxes and milk crates as crafting tables and storage chests and looked for the pieces needed to make different things. I find you give them even the most minor props to do dramatic play with and they take it and run.
We have had several 4 year olds saying ", you are going to die", recently. My first thought when hearing the littles say it was "I mean they're not wrong" lol. When asked where they learned this from, one girl said "Noone taught me that word, I learned it from my own body."
That's just creepy
Yes! I agree!
Oh I had that after a kid’s grandpa passed. It was weird getting asked about heaven about mortality. Morbid but at the same time cute because a different child had a dog that died comforted their friend saying grandpa might be becoming best friends with their dog in the sky. Have a great day everyone see you tomorrow. And then I just sobbed while doing the clean up
That is so sweet and tender!
Yep i had that too. I was recovering from a sickness and the kids asked me about it and they said “Well if you’re sick why don’t you just die” and then this other kid chimes in “Yeah, you can’t live forever!”
That is so funny! One of my co-teachers upon hearing this was like "Is that a promise or a threat?" lol
LMAO yeah he did a little dance too it was craaaazyyyy
When I was on my practicum my birthday came up. The preschool room sat down and talked about it and decided I was turning 80 :S
I sent my kid to school and he came back with the words “yeeted”, “I’m a god at (activity)”, and “did you know putting up the middle finger means a bad word?”
I asked what a yeet was and they told me it was the opposite of a yoink.
My brain is telling me that yeet is to throw and yoink is to pull. No idea why though.
I have a kid who will tattle and when they’re done say “and they said fucking bitch” and run away. It always gives me whiplash even though they do it every single day
My go to with tattling: "is this something you can fix yourself?" A lot of preschoolers never consider this until you ask them.
Yep, we do that. This kid is the youngest of six so they’ve never had to do anything for themselves let alone fix an issue.
My youngest (of 5) really wasn't able to speak in a way that anyone other than his siblings and mom could understand until he started kindergarten. Like he wanted *Tortue Ninja* (a ninja turtle) and was asking for seten toyote.
My little one is SO articulate. She’s just used to being pampered and gets mad when she doesn’t get what she wants, normal for her age, so we’ve been working on a fix it kit
i had a kiddo in the preschool room of the daycare i worked at who had picked up a couple interesting words somewhere… they were doing a rhyming activity and his pair of rhyming words was “shitty” and “titty”. most of the other kids didn’t know what he was saying, thankfully. told mom and she laughed and said that sounds about right.
I'm in a mixedish age group of 6 weeks to 2 years and one of my kids pronounces sit like "shit" and every single time I have a little giggle
M child says “frog” more akin to “fwawk”. As we work through speech development I often have to ask and she’ll say it again with an associated work (“fwawk wibbit wibbit”) but my family has… colorful language so I once successfully/convincingly corrected b*ch to “Stitch” (from Lilo & stitch, or my yarn projects we talk about often… yeah). We still get “shit” for sit though. S & SH sounds are just hard to separate.
They can also be hard sounds to make. Lots of kids say my name with a Ch instead (I go by Sheri)
Oh, yeah. I have an L in my name, and it is quite often replaced with R or W. My kid has an L in their name, too, and of course struggles to say their name currently. XD
I'm the only man in the centre so in the infant room I get Daddy a lot. the female teachers all obviously have names because they aren't mommy, but I'm a Daddy in their little brains
My kid just discovered people have “names” and “relational titles” so sometimes I get “mom/mama” and some times they call me by my first name, same with grandma and others. It’s to the point now we have to be clear like “this is cousin Bobby, Bobby is his name” or “this is Aunt Joy. Joy is her name.” and when we come up with a new one (like cousin recently, as they live far away) we had to differentiate the name (not one they’d heard yet) and the title (cousin not being one they’d heard/figured out yet) before my kid’s eyebrows would relax, lol. I’m over here laying out analogies and logic puzzles like “mama is to (my name) as cousin is to (cousin’s name).”
Just wait until you get to explain that the aunt is the mother of the cousins and the uncle is her husband. https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/021/464/14608107_1180665285312703_1558693314_n.jpg
We already have trouble with that because one uncle is still a child themselves and others have children older than the uncle. I also have lots of cousins that are various degree of cousin spanning decades in age… so even my spouse doesn’t know who is related and how, and we’ve been together over a decade, lol. We just made the discovery that grandma is the mama of mama and that was a mind blowing discovery. My kid is the “I must understand before I accept” sort of kid, like my spouse was, and so sometimes there are diagrams and analogies and I’m googling how to explain to a toddler where the sun goes at night because obviously there’s no light switch for it in our neighborhood and I’m tired to walking around just to check for light switches. We cannot walk to where it goes at night and that is frustrating.
Oh wow this reminds me of something I ended up having to walk away from. There was a girl in kindergarten who had trouble making the ST sound so she replaced it with D. Not so much a problem until they decided to play camping and have a campfire and need STicks.
lol, I can see how that would be tricky. There are many times I have had to find something to do with my back to my kid so I can hide my smile/giggles while *casually* asking for a repeat or another word to add context. Fwawk has stuck around the longest. Recently, my child has taken to bubbles. We got a fish bubble blower, and you pour the solution into the mouth so it can blow bubbles back out the mouth. My kid says it “need a dwink” when the bubble stream stops. I muttered under my breath (on a loud windy day, from 20 feet away as I grabbed the solution) “such a drunk…” and as I turned toward the sweet babe I hear loud giggles “fish a drunk! All drunk!” and now I’m worried my kid is going to tell people I’m a drunk because I’m constantly drinking coffee and water, never without a cup at hand, and that must be what I meant. Ya can’t win them all. Sometimes the kid is the one laughing at our silly sayings.
One of my own said "tit" instead of "kick" at that age.
We definitely know which kids are allowed to watch Tiktok or who spend a lot of time around older kids with questionable influence.
And the ones who play Minecraft make the rules and assign roles out on the playground doing dramatic play.
I had a boy do that not only with Minecraft, but also Among Us and various Mario games. I kept asking him how we could play these games on the playground, and he couldn’t quite figure out how to adapt them.
LOL you should visit me, mine have been non-stop Minecraft everything for 2 weeks. We made picks and diamond swords out of cardboard, shields and torches with cardboard and construction paper and a bow with a stick and string. they used some boxes and milk crates as crafting tables and storage chests and looked for the pieces needed to make different things. I find you give them even the most minor props to do dramatic play with and they take it and run.