# Conversations with my son **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719 "2005-04-29T15:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/21 "2005-04-29T23:27:31Z")
**Sauron** , you call your kids “minions”. 😃 This, I find cooler than I can express with a keyboard. I can only hope I can nickname my progeny something just as cool. But, once they take over the world, I’m sure nicknames will be moot. Tripler No, really, I do find it cool. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiltypig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@tiltypig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiltypig)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/22 "2005-04-30T00:09:46Z")
My little sister used to call dogs “woh-wohs” after the barking sound they make. When she was maybe two or three years old, she pointed at a large woman in a fur coat in the park one day and cried out with delight, “Woh-woh!” ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/23 "2005-04-30T02:16:44Z")
That reminds me of how a couple was showing off their pre-verbal daughter’s signing skills. She would awkwardly make a sign for butterfly, giraffe, and other animals. The small snag is that her sound for dogs was panting. All the dogs she saw were ones being walked briskly, and they weren’t barking, but breathing a bit heavily. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/24 "2005-04-30T03:35:22Z")
My son referred to his pacifier as his “bi.” To this day we have no idea where he came up with that. I was in the process of weaning him from it when his sister went in the hospital and my mother gave him a gift: A stuffed monkey with a pacifier. Young Tiger took one look at it, cried, “Monkey Bi!” and plopped his own “bi” back in. It took me another month to wean him off the stupid thing. Gee, thanks, Ma. Your minion sounds totally adorable, **Sauron**! ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/25 "2005-04-30T04:13:12Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > My 3 yo boy is doing such cuteness, too. He pronounces yellow “lellow”. You’re kidding! My twin brother did the _same_ thing. I always thought it was fairly unique. [sub]He also said ‘annoy’ for ‘ignore’ and pronounced ‘admit’ as ‘egmit.’[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/26 "2005-04-30T05:00:18Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > You’re kidding! My twin brother did the _same_ thing. I always thought it was fairly unique. > > [sub]He also said ‘annoy’ for ‘ignore’ and pronounced ‘admit’ as ‘egmit.’[/sub] My two year old says yeddow. She also calls me Mommy/Daddy and my husband Daddy/Mommy. Very well done **Sauron**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/27 "2005-04-30T05:16:45Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > You’re kidding! My twin brother did the _same_ thing. I always thought it was fairly unique. You mean there are TWO SouledOuts in this world?!? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/28 "2005-04-30T06:37:32Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > She absolutely loves “happy cake”–I’m not quite clear on whether it’s all chocolate cake is happy cake or all birthday/special occassions cake is happy cake. I do know she loves chocolate. She also likes the “happy cake shong” - which is Happy Birthday- but she substitutes the word cake for birthday. When a friend of mine turned 3, she was so taken with being honored on her birthday that she made people sing it to her several times a day for weeks afterward. But to be fair, she also wanted to sing it for everyone else, too. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/29 "2005-04-30T10:25:47Z")
I was watching **Empire Strikes Back** with Little Case the other day - he likes the robots and spaceships, but applies remorseless 3 year old logic to the plot: Yoda was bad because he “stole Luke’s lunchbox” {remember him ransacking Luke’s belongings when he first crashes on Dagobah?}, which is a heinous sin to a toddler. I asked him whether Darth Vader was bad, and he replied “No”. Why not? “He didn’t steal Luke’s lunchbox”. Why didn’t he steal Luke’s lunchbox? Exasperated 3 year old glare that Daddy is so thick. “Because he doesn’t have a mouth, silly.” {And yes, he does call people “silly”, and is starting to pick up my habit of talking back to the TV news}. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/30 "2005-04-30T10:49:30Z")
Ooohh…remembered one. My nephew has always been a big truck fan. (If in doubt about a present, buy a truck.) So, when he was about 3, we were sitting in the family room one day and he was playing with fire trucks of varying sizes. The grown-ups could hear him talking to and about the trucks, mentioning Mommy Trucks and Daddy Trucks and threatening the little trucks with timeouts. It was really hard not to burst out laughing. GT ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/31 "2005-04-30T11:48:36Z")
When Ivygirl was younger, she’d combine words into new ones. Her new shoes were “comfeetable.” The dog was “cutieful.” ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/32 "2005-04-30T15:52:30Z")
My middle sister, when very little always said “lellow” for “yellow” too. Drove me nuts and no amount of correction ever worked. My son, when very little could not say the words deck, truck or slug. Deck came out as “dick”, slug and truck came out as “f_ck". I arrived to pick him up for daycare and my daycare provider told me my son kept saying we had to kill the "f_cks” on the “dick”. She didn’t know what he was saying and was mightily shocked at the words, until…my daughter who is three years older translated for my son. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/33 "2005-04-30T16:58:41Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > Ooohh…remembered one. My nephew has always been a big truck fan. (If in doubt about a present, buy a truck.) > > GT I think they just about all love trucks. My brother bought a brand new F-150 when my nephew was two, and he was all about the truck, believe me. Only, he coiuldn’t pronounce the word, so he’d always be talking about “Daddy’s duck”. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/34 "2005-04-30T19:53:58Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > You mean there are TWO SouledOuts in this world?!? > > :eek: Quiet, you. 😛 We’re about as far from identical as you can get. He’s in the Marines. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/35 "2005-05-01T07:00:52Z")
My baby sister (who is now 23!) used to say “lellow.” We were all disappointed when she stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/36 "2005-05-01T10:08:17Z")
This one has to be quoted: we’ve just finished reading a book on Reptiles and Amphibians {OK, I read it and endeavour to explain what’s going on, he looks at the pictures, and I get him to spell out the F.R.O.G and T.O.A.D captions}. We sat down and watched **Toy Story 2** this morning - following which, he ran around the house happily shouting “To amphibians and beyond!” ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/37 "2005-05-01T11:41:07Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > This one has to be quoted: we’ve just finished reading a book on Reptiles and Amphibians {OK, I read it and endeavour to explain what’s going on, he looks at the pictures, and I get him to spell out the F.R.O.G and T.O.A.D captions}. We sat down and watched **Toy Story 2** this morning - following which, he ran around the house happily shouting “To amphibians and beyond!” My then three year old used to run around yelling “Tooth minty and beyong!” ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/38 "2005-05-01T19:02:08Z")
My little sister called meat “neat” for about four years. " I want some more neat, please!" ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/39 "2005-05-01T20:30:35Z")
My friend’s little boy’s first word was “car”. He loves his toy cars, and everything in his room is car-themed. But, after learning that wonderful first word, he applied it to everything that could move under its own power. Buses and trucks were cars. Bikes were cars. But what cracked me up is when he chased the cat around the room yelling “car! car!” I think they call the cat Car-car now. It’s just easier. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719/40 "2005-05-01T21:55:37Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > “Walk to the store” > > All the words were spelled correctly, all of the letters were correctly written. > > :eek: You _did_ take him to the store after that, didn’t you? The little Arky deserved a treat for that! 😛 (that’s amazing, by the way. Perhaps he’d be interested in some playlets?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversations-with-my-son/301719.md?page=3)