I have always used big words around my kids. They’re parrots. They echo them and use terms they don’t understand all the time. But also, they pay attention and do learn sometimes.
“Ugh, remind me to get our health insurance reinstated.”
“They didn’t process the paperwork so our health insurance was never reinstated.”
“Yes, I’m calling to find out what I can do to get my health insurance reinstated.”
They’re always listening. Literally always.
Also, some kids are just fricking smart. (Am hyperlexic former gifted kid.)
I remember there were these TV ads, "Depression hurts", something along those lines. My grandmother has back pain that was found to be a result of working in nursing, and one day she was talking about it... 4 year old me deadass went " Could be depression?", all because I remembered "depression hurts". Pattern recognition is a hell of an intoxicant, especially when you're young and naive, tryna figure shit out for yourself, and weird lessons do stick out of seemingly nowhere. My guess is most of these people weren't as "cogniscient" as others in their youth, and therefore think everyone else was as dense and unanalytical as them at age 5. I know for a fact I had "questions" in my head, even before I knew what a question, or even a word was. Curiousity simply came natural.
I saw this same image posted before and brought up a very similar point. That's a parent of a skateboarding kid who very well could have explicitly said "no tricks until our insurance is reinstated". Kids repeat big words like that all the time and, yes, some kids are just smart as hell. I have 2 neurodivergent step kids, 8 and 10 who use words like heterochromia all the damn time lol. I hate how people think kids don't know words or aren't smart or even actual humans and so they disbelieve an 11 year old can talk like that
I grew up with a book in my hand. I was always reading years above my grade level. My issue was never using big words incorrectly. It was pronouncing words incorrectly because I only ever read them in a book.
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I teach middle school and while it’s perhaps not commonly-used vocabulary among most kids, it’s a term that most probably understand just fine and I’d wager it wouldn’t be especially weird if a kid used it. Maybe if they all started using it on a regular basis…
I have always used big words around my kids. They’re parrots. They echo them and use terms they don’t understand all the time. But also, they pay attention and do learn sometimes.
“Ugh, remind me to get our health insurance reinstated.”
“They didn’t process the paperwork so our health insurance was never reinstated.”
“Yes, I’m calling to find out what I can do to get my health insurance reinstated.”
They’re always listening. Literally always.
Also, some kids are just fricking smart. (Am hyperlexic former gifted kid.)
I remember there were these TV ads, "Depression hurts", something along those lines. My grandmother has back pain that was found to be a result of working in nursing, and one day she was talking about it... 4 year old me deadass went " Could be depression?", all because I remembered "depression hurts". Pattern recognition is a hell of an intoxicant, especially when you're young and naive, tryna figure shit out for yourself, and weird lessons do stick out of seemingly nowhere. My guess is most of these people weren't as "cogniscient" as others in their youth, and therefore think everyone else was as dense and unanalytical as them at age 5. I know for a fact I had "questions" in my head, even before I knew what a question, or even a word was. Curiousity simply came natural.
Same, always had questions, always remembered random stuff. And everyone thought I was dumb as a brick, then got mad when I wasn’t.
I saw this same image posted before and brought up a very similar point. That's a parent of a skateboarding kid who very well could have explicitly said "no tricks until our insurance is reinstated". Kids repeat big words like that all the time and, yes, some kids are just smart as hell. I have 2 neurodivergent step kids, 8 and 10 who use words like heterochromia all the damn time lol. I hate how people think kids don't know words or aren't smart or even actual humans and so they disbelieve an 11 year old can talk like that
Exactly this. I think some people also just believe kids aren’t real people, so they don’t have to treat them as such.
My friend had godchildren and he used big words around them all of the time. Nothing is funnier than a 5 year old saying catywompus
Ngl, that’s honestly half the reason I did it.
And also bc I hated people talking down to me as a child.
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I grew up with a book in my hand. I was always reading years above my grade level. My issue was never using big words incorrectly. It was pronouncing words incorrectly because I only ever read them in a book.
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The kid probably just learned that word and using it every chance they get. I mean, who doesn't do it?
I lowkey actually think this one never happened
I dont know about most other kids, but i have been using "big person words" since I was like 6.
I teach middle school and while it’s perhaps not commonly-used vocabulary among most kids, it’s a term that most probably understand just fine and I’d wager it wouldn’t be especially weird if a kid used it. Maybe if they all started using it on a regular basis…
This didn't happen tho, I was there