Hello mums,
Have you had these moments of pure pride when your little one has just said a really complicated word...and then you turn around and everyone else gives you a blank stare, waiting fo you to translate it in 'adult speak'. Well at Mums Like You we are just going through this phase. So we were delighted to come accross the Toddler's Dictionary that our dear friends at Mothers of Innovation have put together. Have a look, it's a brilliant idea and we want to take it one step further - add your own entries in the comment box below or on Twitter (adding #totspeak to your tweet) and enter the Mothers of Innovation Competition for a gorgeous goody bag, packed with unique products: a Rockin Hood, a pair of sock-ons and pack of practical labels.
The winner will be chosen at random on the 2nd October and announced on the site.
Good luck and enjoy!
Ivet
Mums Like You
The Toddler's Dictionary
Some words are just too long or toddler logic can be applied. Here is the start of a special on-line translation service for perplexed adults.
The worrying thing for a parent is remembering to use the 'grown up' translation when trying to hold a regular adult conversation.
abulub ambulance
aminals animals
Ass bursday Happy Birthday
atetoes potatoes
bepooter computer
bepiano piano..she seems to have a b issue
bicits biscuits
biculls bicycles
bird flakes corn flakes - the picture on the box says it all
bisgetti confetti or biscuits (concerned about this little one being a flower girl)
boke bottle of milk
bolders tea, as in builders tea
bufferfly butterfly
chickeninthebox chickenpox
chiffus Christmas
crip a single crisp - he was just making sense of plurals
cumbercues cucumbers
dice bus
dink drink
diss milk bottle (from 'Do you want this?')
ezplaz aeroplane
glubs gloves
dweeble deez chips (from 'Would you like some of these')
fantascit fantastic
flying pan frying pan
ga-ga grandma
gun gun bang bang (when playing cowboys)
hairyplane aeroplane
hamhigh handbag
hoo-ha sleep
hostibul hospital
jymamas pyjamas
key pooter computer
knee napkin
knees story time (sitting on Mummy's knee)
lellow yellow
memember remember
mini-beavers Maltesers
monkeys 'those yucky things up your nose'
mumuma dummy
mungry I'm feeling a little peckish
nanna banana
nicnic picnic
nucky necker double decker
no(w) snow
oberdair over there
car parks parkark
rocklit chocolate
sooty florlors pretty flowers
spearmints experiments, as in spearmints on animals
spiders wipe spider's web
too yous birthdays
tories not political brainwashing but stories
twos two - it is a confused plural thing
U u ee cup of tea
ully lovely
umberbella umbrolly/umbrella
ush fizzy drink (the sound that it makes when you unscrew the top)
vegable vegetable - and I wish I could stop saying it
vigenar vinegar
wac wac any kind of bird
wee room living room (?)
wipe screamers windscreen wipers
wish/wish washers windscreen wipers
wooden mouse wood louse
Zib zib Elizabeth - why do older sisters have such hard names - yes, this one is for all the great family misnomers xx
We would love to hear your entries to this dictionary,please add them on here!
created by Mothers of Innovation - MOIXX