Hilarious Terms Toddlers Made Up For Words They Don’t Know
If you spend any time around young kids, you know they don’t always know the words they’re looking for, but they find clever ways to express what they mean. According…
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If you spend any time around young kids, you know they don’t always know the words they’re looking for, but they find clever ways to express what they mean. According to BuzzFeed author and parent Kristen Mulrooney recently shared her experience with this, tweeting, “My daughter doesn’t know the word ‘cough drop,’ so she is requesting medicine beans.”
This kicked off a hilarious thread of parents replying with the funny substitute words their kids have come up with to get their point across. These are some of the best.
“3yo was looking for the word ‘tomorrow’ and came out with ‘nexterday’”
“My then three year old, referring to a bra, once asked me why I wore a ‘chest mask.’”
“My nearly 3 y.o soon had a sore throat and headache and the only way he could describe it was ‘my head has bees.’ Made perfect sense.”
“My son used to call the pantry the pantreat because that’s where the treats are.”
“My three year old niece called the backyard deck the cat hider.”
“I have always enjoyed the ‘PortChildteaus’ (my made up word for toddler mash up words). Mine used to use ‘hanitizer’ and duh, that just made sense!”
“My son used to call a laptop a ‘tummy work’ when he was really small”
“My kid calls the Lego manual the ‘constructions’ instead of the ‘instructions’… and honestly, I think he’s right.”
“My youngest says long-sleeve shorts instead of pants”
“Today, 5-year-old couldn’t find his piano book and asked for ‘the music menu.’”
“My kid had a pop tart at daycare and it blew his mind. But didn’t know what it was called. He came home and asked for a donut cracker.”
“My son wanted a knife and asked for a kitchen sword”
“My 3yo nephew didn’t know the word ‘icing,’ so while decorating cookies, he asked me to pass him ‘the Christmas glue.’”
“Ha my son didn’t know the word for ankles one time and referred to them as ‘leg wrists’ when he was about 4”
“My grand-tot wanted to sing the song about people eating dirt (‘Another One Bites the Dust’)”
Source: BuzzFeed
