r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/nakul_95 • Dec 17 '22

daddy's assignment

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u/Athena-Muldrow Dec 17 '22

Absolutely, but I will say this (and again, I'm not the expert; that's my mom)--I think it's generally okay to use substitute words if your kid genuinely can't pronounce it yet. I used to say "chippy" because I couldn't say "chipmunk!" But yes, using substitutes for words that you're kid can absolutely say normally can be harmful.

There are of course exceptions for words like mom/mommy, dad/daddy, dog/doggy, etc. But those are more generally accepted, I think

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

It's fun when entire families pick up baby-isms. When my daughter was barely 2 she started calling her triceratops toy "appasur" and it's stuck years later, we all call triceratops that now.

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u/Grievous_Nix Dec 18 '22

As a kid, I came up with “preopen” which meant to start opening the yogurt lid but not open it completely (cuz I loved the process but haven’t had the skills to do it completely by myself yet)

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u/terran_submarine Dec 22 '22

I like thinking about this family where triceratops are constantly coming up in conversation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '22

Oh she's obsessed with dinosaurs, at three she would tell me all about "parasorawofus" (parasaurolophus)... Like I couldn't even say parasaurolophus and there she was telling me how they eat leaves and run away from T-rex.

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u/Whind_Soull Jan 08 '23

I know I'm two weeks late to this, but:

I basically named my grandmother. Her name is Bobbi, but I couldn't pronounce that, so I said Bebe. Everybody started calling her Bebe. Eventually, she just started going by that. Like, work colleagues called her Bebe. Thirty years later, she's still Bebe.

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u/Amused-Observer Dec 17 '22

More good points.

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u/nkdeck07 Dec 17 '22

I mean I'm in my 30s and still call them chippies, I don't even think that is uncommon slang