• NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    My kids developed a British accent due to Peppa Pig. They called popsicles “ice lollies” for years which was adorably hilarious.

    Although admittedly, “ice lolly” is probably more correct as Popsicle was a brand name and is the equivalent of using “Kleenex” in place of “tissue”. Actually, maybe now I will start using ice lolly…

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    I tried to not swear when my son was born, but that lasted about 3 days. After that, I always spoke freely in front of him.

    Today, he’s 27, and NEVER swears. He just doesn’t do it, never did. His friends don’t swear much either. They all saw it as another unseemly thing that older people do.

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      “mom!!!Brother biscuited himself”

      “daddy, are you biscuit - faced again? You were supposed to drive me to my school play tonight!”

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
      102·
      2 months ago

      Are there people that find the phrase “oh biscuits” to be unacceptable?

      Like, what do you even mean?

      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        The kid is still communicating the exact same intent when they say biscuits vs shit. They are just making a different sound. Isn’t it the intent that should matter?

        • LePoisson@lemmy.world
          22·
          2 months ago

          The intent does matter, and I swear too frequently to have it bother me, but society decided certain words are swear words and it just is what it is.

            • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
              11·
              2 months ago

              Poop is gross. Maybe you are from one of those countries where people shit in the street and call it acceptable or something.

              • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                2 months ago

                No, we just talk about bodily functions and don’t shame people for what everyone does. Babies shit and piss themselves, accidents happen, and adults need help in their senior years as well. Does this shock you? You also shit and wipe your ass everyday. Don’t be a bloody prude.

                You’re American aren’t you?

        • LePoisson@lemmy.world
          23·
          2 months ago

          Uh, no I literally don’t give a fuck - I just think it’s funny that you have a problem with a kid saying “oh biscuits”

          I’d say a swear is a swear - you know what swear words are, and I didn’t decide anything, society did. Personally I don’t really care and I swear like a sailor but there’s probably been books written about what is and isn’t a swear word, how they came to exist and why they exist for all cultures and societies around the world. Maybe there are some exceptions but every language I’ve learned about has swear words in it.

          Language is silly.

          • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
            13·
            2 months ago

            I have an issue with kids swearing and parents perpetuating it’s okay because they deem the words okay.

            You’re a shitty person if you find that funny, or you take serious matters and make them a joke to you so you don’t need to care. That’s even worse.

    • Kanda@reddthat.com
      31·
      2 months ago

      Why is not okay to swear in any way? The Christian thing doesn’t even have backup for anything but saying the lords name in vain.

          • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
            12·
            2 months ago

            So?

            Biscuits can to, what’s your point?

            So it’s not like the word isn’t “acceptable” either lmfao.

            Everyone knows you’re replacing a word for another anyways, so you seriously think that makes it somehow better? That you’re lying to yourself and everyone else know anyways? Just use the words instead of trying to be cute. The only thing it does to anyone else other than the others like you, is make you look like a puritanical follower.

            I wasn’t part of, and neither were you when they decided that some words are okay to speak and not others. That’s the part that’s the issue here.

            You’re not being cute, you’re not being funny, you’re only perpetuating that others control you. The issue has and should always be the context they are used in. You don’t get to decide what’s an okay word to say and not. And substituting words just shows that you want to swear, but you follow societal standards, and everyone sees that instead.

        • athatet@lemmy.zip
          22·
          2 months ago

          I mean, it’s okay to swear regardless of what anyone thinks of the words.

          Unless you’re being an unserious silly pants and I’m too autistic to tell.

          • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            2 months ago

            mean, it’s okay to swear regardless of what anyone thinks of the words.

            Read the comments? That’s literally the point I’m arguing since some small portion of people decided decades ago that some words are okay, but not others.

            The issue has and should always be the context they are used in.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      The latest studies seem to show it’s a correlation based on a common source.

      What matters is spending time interacting with your child. It just happens that parents that are bad at that bit (or lack time for otter reasons) tend to also dump kids in front of the TV.

      Screen time is not inherently bad. It just correlates with other bad behaviours, and can displace good ones.

      • valar@lemmy.ca
        11·
        2 months ago

        And cigarettes aren’t inherently bad, only when you smoke them

        • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Nicotine is a useful pesticide, so I would actually partially agree with you.

          Kids watching excessive TV is a symptom of a larger problem. The negative effects mostly come from those problems, not the screen time itself.

          • valar@lemmy.ca
            0·
            2 months ago

            I get what you’re saying. I still think it’s appropriate to consider screen time negative, though. I think if you had two parents and one threw a screen in front of their kid and the other thought twice about it because someone told them it was bad, and they did something else, or even just let their kid be bored, the second kid would be less damaged. So I’m going with the practical reality.

            • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              I’m playing that balancing act already. They like watching TV, or a tablet, but it’s not their life’s entertainment. They use it to help decompress, before moving on to something better, when they have the energy.

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
    33·
    2 months ago

    Woman discovers what you show children on screen matters. More at six.

  • Berlinblades@lemmy.world
    212·
    2 months ago

    Bluey teaches kids that ALL time is playtime and that parents are available to Join in at all times without exception. I had to curb watching it for this reason as well as it’s shallow heteronormativity and promotion of Neoliberalism.