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…
My pre K daughter was w oh th her class outside on a cold breezy day. The teacher had them all stand in a tight circle facing out. Then one child would take off their coat and run into the middle of the circle to stay warm .my daughter said she couldnt do it cause she “koozerphostick.”…which is the best she could do with “claustrophobic…
And we have yarden for yard and garden and for left it for forgot and left
When I was younger I would get car sick a lot and when I would I would tell my mom “the sun is in my mouth” lol.
My nephew told my sister that his fanny burped. So of course we called farts fanny burps from them on. 😂
My 2 year old daughter called orange juice “orange douche”.
I used to call burps “mouth farts”
Flamingo ..a one legged stander upper onner my grandson
My daughter used to use spoonerisms a lot masewing chine (sewing machine) and burf begers she is in her 30s now but we still call things what she did when she was young
My nephew use to call pie the cake with the crust on it.
My daughter always said “Happy Near You”
Tailhat: best word ever devised by a toddler, refers to a ponytail.
My favorite is Flutterbye instead of Butterfly.
My daughter called ketchup “meat make-up”. Farts were “back burps”. Peas and carrots were “balls and squares.”
My daughter calls peas “turtle poops”.
My niece called t.v. ads “commershinals” and ad books, “magazines”, but she could say “cappuccino” just fine. 😆😆😆
Mazagines.
My son used to call my bra a “nipple case.”
I babysat a friend’s 4 year old and we went to get some Kentucky fried chicken, we go inside and he’s so excited we were getting F*cky fried chicken he was telling all the customers ( who were practically wetting themselves )
My son once asked for one of those black sandwiches with cheese inside. Grilled cheese. I’m an awesome cook😉
My nephew asked for “white cinnamon” for breakfast. Cinnamon rolls with white icing.
My 2 year old grandson called bras ” milk clothes”
Lemolaide for lemonade. “Ping ball” hammer for a ball peen hammer.
My brother called a brassiere a dashear when he was little.
We lived across from a farmers field when my son was 3ish. He liked to watch the tractors. Then one day we’re driving down the roas and he sees round hay bails. He says “look, tractor poops” He’s 14 now thayre still tractor poops.
I brought home grapes after work to my nephews. To which he spat it out n cried Aunt Betsy these grapes have bones in them
When my little brother would throw up he would say “mom I threw down” which technically it was going down once it came up! Lol
My son calls lunch meat, circle meat 🤣
When my children were little I used to ask them at lunch (if we were having cheese sandwiches) if they wanted plain cheese or grilled cheese. Near Christmas one year, when a particular kind of way overpriced bike was popular, I asked them if a plain bike would be ok…and they yelled in unison, “No. We want a GRILLED bike!’
What’s the bear in the sea? Barracuda!
My boy when about 4 said ” I’m rude at him when his gramps wouldn’t write his full name Aiden Michael Julius Batman (last name withheld) on notes. It. Wasn’t Batman he’d leave out it was Julius lol
Driving to the coast one day with a friend and her 5 year old son. We were in farm country and it was his first time. We passed a large flock of sheep and he shouted out “look at all the ground clouds!”
A friend of mine used to refer to feathers as “bird leafs.”
One day, my little sister told my mom that she wanted some “chicken cookies.” Mom said ,”I don’t know what you mean.” To which my sister said, “Yes you do! The chicken cookies that go ‘doodle doodle doo!'” Mom finally realized that she was talking about snickerdoodles. It’s been over 30 years, and snickerdoodles are still called “chicken cookies” in our family.
Lastly, there was my other sister who had trouble with the letter W: She referred to the villain in The Wizard of Oz and “The bicked b*tch”
“Pockets are called snack hole”. Nope! A mouth is a snack hole.
Eggs- hen fruit
Toilet paper- butt wiping compound
Tampax- man hole covers
My little brother jay
My youngest would call wispy clouds “sky tails”.
‘Pokey eggs’ were requested regularly at breakfast when my son wanted them sunnyside up.
Unbeknownst to us, our toddler overheard us discussing the fact that we had stashed her lollipops on a shelf high above the microwave out of reach. Without missing a beat she walked over and demanded a “high-up.” She has been calling them “high-ups” ever since. 🍭
Our toddler was busy processing several lessons she learned one week: 1) the large building we pass on the way to school is a hospital, 2) hospitals help sick people and are where babies are born, 3) While at the park and at preschool, you can’t randomly go up to stranger’s babies and touch them, especially w/o asking. Her culminating question to us on our commute the next day: “I can go to hos-i-pal and touch babies?”
My youngest son as a toddler couldn’t say “eskimo kiss” he use to say mokimo kiss was so cute.
My oldest son called orange juice awwwgoo…then awwwgoo became anything to drink and we all still say that…..”what kind of awwwgoo do you want? The kiddos are 32, 33, 37 lol
my daughter can not seem to adapt to the phrase “ it doesnt matter” and after years of telling her the phrase is not “ it doesnt care” she still wont listen and will reply “ mom it doesnt care” lmao also Gorilla bars ( granola bars) also she thought bears were mythical creatures and would say thing like “ yea u know magic creatures like unicorns and dragons and bears and dolphins and mermaids” like dolphins and bears arent real 😂 she was terrified when we told her bears are real
LOL kids are hilarious! I have a list:
graveyards – bury [berry] patches
ambulances – damn wew wew
My aunt Prissy – Aunt Pissy
My uncle Jerry – Uncle Jujy
My cousin Brent – Bent Boy
Firetrucks – firef*cks
My daughter tried to say a naughty word one time when she spilled her drink…not sure where she got it (we never ever used this curse word ourselves) Dog dammit
My son saw a family of feral cats in the woods behind our apartment and wanted to go pet them. I told him that he couldn’t because they were wild…his response “Did someone give them a Coke?” I had always told him he couldn’t have soda because it made him wild :-)
Our son called acorns “oakcorns”. He called oatmeal “eatmeal”. And he sang a holiday song about “Frosty the Cold Man”.
When my eldest daughter was five she called broccoli “tree stars” because she was very in to the Land Before Time movies. She also called an umbrella an “underbrella “ (makes total sense, really) and an escalator was an “alligator”
My toddlers called a fart an “air poo-poo”
My youngest daughter, when she was four called sunny side up eggs “dippy eggs”. We still say that and she’s almost 21!
Private parts were “peanut “ for boys and “gina” for girls which we figure was close enough. She still calls them that! Lol
I knew a little 2 year old who wanted Nacky Pops. Figured out it was Rice Krispies.
(Snap Crackle POP)
Apparently when I was younger, my mom tried to teach me the word “cereal”. Pain in the butt toddler I was, insisted on calling it “fuff”.
My mom: “okay, so, ‘see-‘….”
Me: “see…”
MM: “ree-….”
M: “ree-….”
MM: “uhl.”
M: “uhl.”
MM: “Cereal.”
M: “FUFF!”
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When I was a kid I called men’s nipples pepperonis