Parents Talking To Kids

Favourite of mine, overheard at the weekend by the river:
Mother: What noise does a duck make, Jeremy?
Jeremy: Choo choo!
Mother: No dear, that's a train.

― MarkH, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dr vick to thread!! (sadly she is in france) (what english ducks say = what dutch frogs say = kwak)

a few weeks ago on Holy Island we overheard this rather unholy line from mother to child:
"If you step in any more of that sheep shit, I'm going to rub your face in it!"

i don't use baby talk. then again i am not a parent. yesterday i was talking to a kid - i think he was about nine years old - and my boyfriend commented on the fact i used difficult words (nominate for example).