I am certain mom's everywhere love to hear their kids say things, they may say them wrong every single time, and you giggle, and let them continue with their story. But, at what point, do you teach them the right word in place of the cute version they have come up with? When it's not cute anymore?
Well, perhaps I was 9-10 years old I had been referring to the good old fashioned washcloth as a moffcloff. "Mom, can you hand me a moffcloff?" I gestured toward the closet.
"A what?"
"A moffcloff."
"It's a washcloth." She handed it to me.
What the?! Um... I have been calling it moffcloff the whole time, we're talking my life to this point. And now you're telling me it is washcloth?! Ok...if you say so.
So, the answer is! The right time to correct children in their word errors is before they have a memory of ever saying is wrong.
oh i love this story so much! haha i guess i should fix corgan's 'foon' aka spoon word mistakes..
ReplyDeleteNow Now Ninnie,
ReplyDeleteI corrected you repeatedly until you were in your early 20s. You just never believed me. Cute story, sweetie.
LOL! I'm still giggling outloud about this! Seriously just made my day... also funny cause my kids have several words that they say wrong and I do not correct them cause I think its cute, however Parker will correct them and roll his eyes whenever he does, he's all annoyed that their saying it wrong and I just laugh at it all! Your posts are so cute!!
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