KIDS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS, STILL

(November, 2024) Huffington Post asked people for unusual words families use that were coined by their kids. Some of the responses:
– “Fried eggs are ‘hoop’ or ‘circle eggs’ for my current 4-year-old.”
– “‘Findlight’ is a flashlight.”
– “Our 5-year-old daughter always called restaurants ‘resternots’ and now we all do.”
– “Young daughter used to say ‘be fearful’ instead of ‘be careful,’ and it stuck.”
– “My daughter was brushing her teeth one night, and she said, ‘The toothpaste just floomed out of the tube.’ So now when too much of anything (ketchup, lotion, etc.) comes out, it ‘flooms.'”
– “We say ‘dinner deserved’ because my son couldn’t say ‘dinner is served.’”
– “My son is bilingual, and when he was little he invented ‘Graciou’ (Gracias and thank you).”
– “‘Hanitizer’ will always be our name for ‘hand sanitizer’”.
– “My youngest says ‘monkey troll,’ for the remote control, and now we all do.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you have a weird word in your family? Where did it come from?