Come on, you know we've all been there. Everybody has unwittingly taught their child something they didn't mean to - a shouted curse word when you dropped that jar of pickles on your foot and then your two-year-old screamed it in the grocery store for the next three months, or maybe you said something about your MIL you shouldn't have and your LO repeated it...often.
I have been teaching my 14 month old daughter different animals. She has some wooden magnets with animal pictures on them and she holds them up and I say the name of the animal.
Well, every time she holds up the picture of the cockatoo I trip up. I know what a cockatoo is, but I always almost say "parrot" so when she asks me what it is, I always slip up and say "ummm..." and then have think a second before answering. Every. Time.
Now she is convinced that a cockatoo is called an "ummm." Whenever she sees one in the store or in a book or at the zoo, she yells "UMM! UMM!" Nothing I do seems to convince her that it is, in fact, NOT called an "ummm."
I have been teaching my 14 month old daughter different animals. She has some wooden magnets with animal pictures on them and she holds them up and I say the name of the animal.
Well, every time she holds up the picture of the cockatoo I trip up. I know what a cockatoo is, but I always almost say "parrot" so when she asks me what it is, I always slip up and say "ummm..." and then have think a second before answering. Every. Time.
Now she is convinced that a cockatoo is called an "ummm." Whenever she sees one in the store or in a book or at the zoo, she yells "UMM! UMM!" Nothing I do seems to convince her that it is, in fact, NOT called an "ummm."
Whoops! He uses it correctly, at least...
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