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Alexis Davis's avatar

These examples are all so funny and cute and innocent!! Mine is more in the vain of the goat video…my eldest was around 3.5 at my time and spends a lot of time with grownups. We are at a family dinner birthday for my husband’s brother with all the uncles aunts and grams and Bodie is sharing his new found (but short lived) love (or acceptance more) of egg in fried rice and with true joy proclaims that he loves eggs in fried rice because “it’s so f*cking good!” Accurate. Fried rice is the best. The subtleties of knowing your audience he has yet to master. 😬

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Sri Juneja's avatar

Haha I’m from NJ and in my book, full credit to your kid. There’s a joke around these parts that if your kid doesn’t know how to drop an f-bomb correctly by age 6, you’ve failed them as a parent so by Jersey standards you are passing with flying colors! 😂

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Alexis Davis's avatar

Yes! I’ll take a win from Jersey any day!

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Niamh Fahy's avatar

This story is ingrained in my brain!! 😂

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Victoria's avatar

We were watching some penguins at the aquarium, and I asked my almost 4 year old what he thought they were talking about. He goes "I think they're practicing racial justice. Is that something penguins do?" I about died trying to not laugh! And I'm giving him partial credit for using the term right; it was a mix of different types of penguins and I don't know the status of rockhopper and macaroni penguin relations right now.

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Alexis Davis's avatar

Lol lol that is sooooo cute and hilarious!!! 😂

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Kuleigh Baker's avatar

I can't think of any specifics off the top of my head but my 5 year old has always had a flowery vocabulary. My mom and MIL always comments on how she uses big words with ease. It's so funny to hear the things come up with! The other day she told me that Taylor Swift is the best singer in the world because of "her words and confidence".

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Alexis Davis's avatar

I mean, she’s not wrong! Haha love it

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Lindsey's avatar

I started turning off all our outside lights at night after we read A Garden to Save the Birds :)

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Alexis Davis's avatar

Yay! I love this for the birds!!

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Jenna Vandenberg's avatar

A Puyallup reference! I love it :)

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Alexis Davis's avatar

I honestly can’t think of how else you would say it?! But I think it’s a proximity issue. I’ve also heard Puget pronounced as “pug-get” … Sequim… what else? I’m forgetting!

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Jenna Vandenberg's avatar

Sedro-Woolley!

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Alexis Davis's avatar

But all I can see/hear is Sedro-Woolley! I’ll have to see if my Texan husband can get it right on his first pass

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Jenna Vandenberg's avatar

I’ll ask my Oklahoma husband too 😂

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Sri Juneja's avatar

This was such a delightful read. I'm convinced you need to be the one to teach my kid how to read when the time comes. The language you use really does stick with kids... Already today, I've been the recipient of "Don't do that!" and "That's not nice!" 🫠

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Alexis Davis's avatar

Sign me up!! 😣 When they mirror the things I say as a parent sometimes it is an unwelcome wake up call. My eldest keeps telling his sister to just give him some space and it’s SO the echo of me begging them to leave me alone for two seconds so I can change out of pajamas or pay a bill or whatever it is I’m trying to get done. Haha.

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Alycia's avatar

Some of the local words that throw people not from the Philadelphia area off the top of my head- Schuylkill (skoo-cull), Passyunk (pash-yunk), Manayunk (mana-yunk or manny-unk) and Conshohocken (Conshy for short!)). The first word is Dutch and the others are Lenape. I love that my three year old knows these words, along with articulated, integrated, and situated, thanks to so many truck books and hearing me say I need to get situated all the time! Talk to your kids like humans! And read!

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Alexis Davis's avatar

Ooo fun! Philly local words to learn! What do they mean? Also, i feel like I should mention that half my obscure vocabulary probably comes from being a nanny and reading so many niche books. The construction knowledge in particular really sticks in there.

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Alycia's avatar

You got that right about nannying setting you up for a great parenting vocabulary.

Schuylkill means hidden creek and is the name of our second biggest river, Passyunk means place between hills, even though it is in a very flat part of town, Manayunk means drinking place which is funny because there are lots of bars in that neighborhood, and Conshohocken refers to the big bend in the Schuylkill River, which everyone calls the Conshohocken Curve. My favorite street name in the city is Wingohocking, which is believed to be Lenape for favorite land to plant, and was a creek that is now a sewer system. You will impress so many Philadelphians if you drop any of this on them!

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Sierra Shield's avatar

I love reading all the comments! Learning so much. Also the goat IG was so cute and funny. I loved the mom, “It’s just a goat” and then her giggle!😊

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