Alan & Brenda Leonard

> Very often, the so-called mistakes are part of the kids'
> charm, of course.

My husband and I loved our son's little speech mistakes. Things like
am-i-nal and maz-a-gine. I never corrected them...they were his last bit of
cuteness. (My son is intense, wonderful, etc., but not cute.)

I can still see the fury in his eyes the day he realized, reading those two
words in the same sentence, that he had been saying them wrong all this
time, and that I had LET him say them that way. It took him less than 24
hours to purge them out of his vocabulary.

It took just slightly longer for him to forgive me! <g>

brenda

Ouillette Debbie

Here's another one my middle daughter just reminded me
of-,"Thinger" for "finger". The same two out of three
daughters who pronounced "Tim Hortons" as "Tim
Portons", were pronouncing it this way. The strange
thing is, I didn't realize it. My 11 year old was
pronouncing them this way up until about a year ago.

Debbie



-- Alan & Brenda Leonard <abtleo@...> wrote:
> > Very often, the so-called mistakes are part of the
> kids'
> > charm, of course.
>
> My husband and I loved our son's little speech
> mistakes. Things like
> am-i-nal and maz-a-gine. I never corrected
> them...they were his last bit of
> cuteness. (My son is intense, wonderful, etc., but
> not cute.)
>
> I can still see the fury in his eyes the day he
> realized, reading those two
> words in the same sentence, that he had been saying
> them wrong all this
> time, and that I had LET him say them that way. It
> took him less than 24
> hours to purge them out of his vocabulary.
>
> It took just slightly longer for him to forgive me!
> <g>
>
> brenda
>
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