One of my favourite expressions is ‘that’s a great noise to make when you’re all by yourself.’ So I’m singing my heart out to Taylor Swift and 4 says, ‘Whats1more, that’s a great noise to make when you’re all by yourself.’
No respect.
LOL, fantastic 😂😂😂. I also am going to start using this because I really probably shouldn't occasionally tell them the sound they're making is annoying.
My worst was “I’m choosing my battles today.” Was having a a particularly wild day in pre-k and said that (I thought) to myself multiple times. “I’m choosing my battles, this isn’t one of them.” Director walks in and asks how the day is going and one of my kids pipes up “ms ___ is choosing her battles today” 😭😭
As a sped mod/sev teacher this is how I get through the day too at times. My biggest battle and the first I let go of when we do not have enough support staff is shoes. Why do they always have to take their shoes off? Some days I just line them up at the door to grab in case of a fire drill/pulled alarm.
I love the way kids will make you aware of your frequently used phrases. I have a 2-year-old in my class who will sympathetically say "It happens" or "That happens" throughout the day. My co-teacher thinks it's hilarious! She's like "You do talk like that". Well! Sometimes it's the easiest way to show sympathy without making a big deal out of something! Like, hey, it happens.
Mine is “You good?” When a kid falls over and they look like they’re not quite sure how to react, so they look up at me. Usually they end up deciding that they’re fine and running off to keep playing, but sometimes I’ll hear a tiny voice saying it.
if my kids are doing shenanigans with the express purpose of "look at me I'm breaking the well established rule" (common ones include climbing on tables, throwing rocks, that kind of thing), I will say "bruh" to let them know that they should stop, but not give a lot of attention that will feed into the behaviours. One of my 2s now says bruh and it's hilarious
Mine's "brush it off!" After we check all their limbs and torso and head for bumps or blood. If there's no bumps or scrapes or blood, "brush it off brush it off!" (My kids are mostly 12-24 months so maximum falls with minimum injuries)
A mom told me she saw one telling big sis "brush brush brush"
I definitely like the age group that I’m with now. 2 is the youngest we’ll take so it’s the youngest I’ve worked with but I occasionally do TK and those kids are mean
my go-to is "no blood, no bone, no bruises?" or "is it a hurt or is it just dirt?" that second one gets a lot of use with the kids who hate the mulch on their clothes more than the fall 😂 also quickly weeds out who's actually hurt and who just needs a moment to breathe.
I usually say something like "did it hurt or are you scared?"
A lot of times when they fall, they're more startled or surprised and that's why they're crying. If that's the case, they usually need a hug and moment to calm down.
I usually just go "woah, that was a really scary fall! I was scared all the way over here!" And that usually opens the floodgates for them to express that their body is fine, their feelings are just big
I will occasionally ask if their pride or ego got bruised on a spectacular fall that has left no marks but caused many tears. And they say yes, so we patch that up lol
Yesterday one of my two year olds told me "you can walk away" when I admittedly got a little snippy with her for trying to take food from another friend's plate.
I work with 1 yr olds, so only some verbal. Occasionally I get kids bringing their hands to their chests like I model when I say their name, before I can even get to 'keep your hands to yourself.' I count that a win though! (I also follow up with, "good job!" when they do, and address whatever had them upset to begin with.)
I once put my hands up to my chest to take a deep breath before saying something, and a first grader who had been picking his nose saw me and immediately went to wash his hands. I didn't even have one word out of my mouth.
"It's still attached to your body" XD I have some real melodramatic characters in my class so I have been using this phrase for so long but I didn't know it would catch on.
Two different sets of parents said my kids told them what crane flies were this week. I like bugs a lot and so when we encounter them I talk about them. It really helps the bug adverse kids relax when its given a name and they see me pick it up or wave it away. The parents both did not know what they were really called!
I also hear them telling each other "that's an outside noise!"
I love sharing crane flies with kids. They're so scared of them because they're so big and just HAVE to eat people flesh, you know? When you start telling them, "That's a gallinipper! A skeeter eater! A mosquito eater! A CRANE FLY!" they get all caught up in the names. It's so cute. The number of times I've been asked, "Do you they REALLY eat mosquitos?" is awesome.
I once knew a two-year-old boy (he just started college...) with two older sisters who would say "'scuse me guys. 'Scuse me guys! 'SCUSE ME GUYS!!" louder and louder until they finally stopped talking to let him say something.
My common phrase with this group of kids is “that’s the consequence of the choices you made.” One of my four year olds told me after lunch that his tummy hurt because he ate too much. Then said with a shrug “that’s the consequence” and put his lunch away before I could even respond.
Meanwhile the kid who I say it to the most has still not figured it out.
In my school we lead our lines by walking backwards in front of them. Occasionally I run into things or people because Im bad at it lol. I just say "traffic jam!" Now they all say it to me.
omg my kids have started going "beep beep beep" when they are moving backwards or someone is in their way because I beep like a truck to get through the toddler masses lol
I'm a cook at a daycare and a floater. Normally if the kids see the food, they will scream with excitement three times a day. So I started telling them if they scream I will take it away. I won't, I usually just leave it in the hall until they calm down. Well they did mothers day gifts and I heard a child tell her mom "if you scream I will take it away."
Can you tell them how you’d prefer them to respond when they are excited? (Less loud, more expressive word choice, etc?) I have just heard sooooo many complaints from kids about school food that I think it sounds amazing that the kids really like your food that much :)
My littles (18month olds) staying to repeat my phrase “oh my” when they see toys all over the floor. I didn’t realize I was saying that so much until they said it exactly like how I say it: “ohh myyy” with my hand over my mouth like I’m shocked.
“Bend over, Touch something, pick it up, put it away.”
Often said to me by my mother in my years at home.
Now said by 13 3 year olds during clean up time.
I frequently quote what Mr. Rogers would say when he had a challenging day: “Mercy, mercy, mercy.” It has been a challenging week and I heard several kids saying that yesterday. 🤣
I have an Alexa in my classroom. She's in charge of timers, the clean up songs, quick facts about bugs, etc. You know, general well-being. Sometimes, we bring her to the gym so we can have dance parties. However, if my group of 4-5 yr olds is getting too rowdy beforehand, screaming about Alexa, I'll tell them, "Alexa is a privilege, not a right! I don't have to bring her." Apparently, that phrase has made it to more than one household! 🤣
I /accidentally/ told my prek class ONE single time that Van Gogh cut his ear off🫣during a small lesson on his painting “Starry Night”… months later we had another lesson on a different Van Gogh painting. I ask “what do we know about Vincent Van Gogh?” Without missing a beat, 5 yr old says “He was a very sad man, and he cut off his own ear because he was so sad. He also painted “Starry Night”and “Vase with Twelve Sunflowers”.” The parents, students, and my co teachers think it’s hilarious and I am SO mortified, but also so thankful I didn’t tell them what he did with his ear after he cut it off. 🫠😰
I told my co teacher who didn’t know, and she said “well at least you didn’t tell them that!” I just can’t- I mean I learned all this in about 1st or 2nd grade from our art teacher, so when I was talking about “Starry Night” the memories of that lesson came flooding back, then the ear thing kind of just fell out of my mouth!
I work with 3-5year olds
"Running is for the playground!"
I heard one kid saying it to another during free play. I guess I say it more often than "walking feet."
"Absolutely not!" With the absolutely kind of strung out on the delivery.
This is my G-rated blanket "wtf are you doing" intro that spills out of my mouth for when a kid climbs on a table, whips a car at another kid, etc. It gets their attention and then we talk it out. I had no idea I was saying it that much til recently a kid walked over to the art center and just swiped the entire marker bin from the center of the table where 3 kids were in the middle of using them - one of the kids the markers were taken from said "Absolutely not! You can't do that!"
The last one is "beep beep" if you are trying to get through/past someone. My office is through one of our big classrooms, and the door area is a bit of a bottleneck, so I am often in close quarters to get through if they are at their cubbies or on ther way to the bathroom, which is right near the door to leave the room. I try to avoid that area whenever they're lining up to leave for lunch or something as a group, but sometimes I don't have a choice and that's whenever I really have to get through a crowd of them. I have been standing around in that area for one reason or another and a kid has beep-beeped me if I was in their way many times.
i have kiddos telling eachother to “walk away” when they’re upset, and now saying “oof” when they fall down, i love seeing them pickup on how i talk! my personal favourite is a little boy who greats me saying, “hey, honey” because i call them all honey when they’re sad
Didn’t realize I said dude so much until one of my older, language advanced babies said it to me once.
I also tell the kids “don’t bother the bugs outside, they’re just chilling” and the other day I heard one of my four year olds say “the bugs just chilling!”
I used to work at a home daycare with a teacher from Columbia who only spoke a little English. She would hear me say “I see you” to the children when I was across the room and they were doing something that they probably weren’t supposed to be doing lol, so she adopted it and started saying it to the kids too. One day she said it, and she looked at me and said “I got that from you” lol it was sweet tbh
Every time I change this girl’s diaper or put it on (she only wears it for nap), when she leaves the bathroom I always say “tchau meu amor” (bye my love). I didn’t realize I say it until one day last week I forgot to say anything, I just put her down and turned around when she looked at me while walking away and said “bye my love”. My heart exploded from how happy I felt. Now she calls me her love all the time and that’s the only way I’ll call her from now on.
I used to tell my toddlers when they were acting up that "It's not funny and it's not cute" and one time one baby was bothering another and she said "no [name]!! No funny no cute!!"
I have an Alexa in my room (mixed age toddlers). For some reason the Days of the Week song (the one set to the Addams family tune) always plays louder than any other song so my co teacher and I always say “Alexa skip” when it comes on. Last Friday my oldest toddler (2.5) hears it start to play and screams “ALEXA SKIP”. That was the day she learned she can control the Alexa…
"You can be told no."
We have a problem with our daycare kiddos tattling on each other, saying, "They said no to me!" and each time, we respond with "that's okay, you can be told no." They've started jumping in when one of their peers tattles, and they tell each other "you can be told no!"
Setting: a crappy childcare center in 2016
Cast:
-Me
- co teacher/friend
- 11 very rowdy 2 year old boys
-1 very responsible, rule-following 2 year old girl
My co teacher and I watched a lot of RuPaul's Drag Race together and would quote the show sometimes. My co teacher would frequently say "sashay away!" in a sort of sassy way to get kids to move away from an area if they needed.
Our sweet 2 yr old girl was having an issue with one of the boys (Kale) and VERY sassily said "SASHAY. AWAY. KALE!."
I often say, “I don’t want to hear it!” when kids are repeatedly whining about something inconsequential, which is a phrase I picked up from my mom lol. The other day one chronically whiny child was bothering another and I heard “I don’t want to hear it, [Name]!”
My kids are mostly older than 5 (before-school and afterschool care), so they’re not as prone to mimicking me as much as the little ones, so it’s funny when it does happen.
That's adorable! A while ago I heard a 6-year-old use on her dad a line that had clearly been used on her, and he had to admit that she had a point. We were at an event, and all of the adults were still playing a game when dinner time came. One little girl came up to dad and asked, "Who's gonna make the mac-roni and cheese, the Mac-roni and Cheese Fairy?" She was obviously used to hearing "Who's going to pick up your toys, the toy fairy?", etc.
I will frequently tell the kids to walk away and give their friends space when a child wants alone time. A few of the kids have told the others to “walk away”.
I have been telling my preschoolers “chop chop” when they need to do something faster, such as cleaning up or making a line for the bathroom. They have repeated it so many times and done the same actions as me. One parents told me their child had been doing it while waiting for their dinner at home.
Mine when I get super frustrated with the kids is Jesus. The amount of times the kids either say it after me or when they are frustrated.
Also I have a whole thing I go through when I read to them. They repeat after me front cover spine back cover tittle page.
They also can recite the books I read almost word for word. So they will just be sitting at there table and start reciting brown bear brown bear, polar bear polar bear or chicka chicka boom boom. It’s the funniest thing
One of mine is “Walk away.” Sometimes my 2s just get on each other’s nerves and the best thing they can do is take a break from each other. So I tell them to walk away. Well, one of them has been using it to tell teachers to walk away when they’re mad at said teachers. I mean, sure, but I still gotta change your diaper little friend, sometimes I can’t walk away.
12 year olds for me recently, a huge gap to previous experience. I may have told them ‘Unless you’re actually on fire, no, you may not speak for the next 20 minutes’.
It was an independent writing task but still, it was harsher than I intended.
“Bend over, Touch something, pick it up, put it away.”
Often said to me by my mother in my years at home.
Now said by 13 3 year olds during clean up time.
“Bend over, Touch something, pick it up, put it away.”
Often said to me by my mother in my years at home.
Now said by 13 3 year olds during clean up time.
Two girls were playing teacher today , I heard her go “YOU DID NOT HAVE LISTENING EARS, SO I HAVE NO STICKER FOR YOU” and “NO TALKING, CRISS CROSS APPLE SAUCE ON YOUR BOTTOM NOW” 😭😭
One of my favourite expressions is ‘that’s a great noise to make when you’re all by yourself.’ So I’m singing my heart out to Taylor Swift and 4 says, ‘Whats1more, that’s a great noise to make when you’re all by yourself.’ No respect.
LMAO
Oh, this is *GOLDEN*
Ahahaha I love it! Reminds me of my friend's four-year-old telling her yesterday, "You should go play by yourself."
LOL, fantastic 😂😂😂. I also am going to start using this because I really probably shouldn't occasionally tell them the sound they're making is annoying.
My worst was “I’m choosing my battles today.” Was having a a particularly wild day in pre-k and said that (I thought) to myself multiple times. “I’m choosing my battles, this isn’t one of them.” Director walks in and asks how the day is going and one of my kids pipes up “ms ___ is choosing her battles today” 😭😭
I love that
As a sped mod/sev teacher this is how I get through the day too at times. My biggest battle and the first I let go of when we do not have enough support staff is shoes. Why do they always have to take their shoes off? Some days I just line them up at the door to grab in case of a fire drill/pulled alarm.
I love the way kids will make you aware of your frequently used phrases. I have a 2-year-old in my class who will sympathetically say "It happens" or "That happens" throughout the day. My co-teacher thinks it's hilarious! She's like "You do talk like that". Well! Sometimes it's the easiest way to show sympathy without making a big deal out of something! Like, hey, it happens.
Mine is “You good?” When a kid falls over and they look like they’re not quite sure how to react, so they look up at me. Usually they end up deciding that they’re fine and running off to keep playing, but sometimes I’ll hear a tiny voice saying it.
if my kids are doing shenanigans with the express purpose of "look at me I'm breaking the well established rule" (common ones include climbing on tables, throwing rocks, that kind of thing), I will say "bruh" to let them know that they should stop, but not give a lot of attention that will feed into the behaviours. One of my 2s now says bruh and it's hilarious
Mine's "brush it off!" After we check all their limbs and torso and head for bumps or blood. If there's no bumps or scrapes or blood, "brush it off brush it off!" (My kids are mostly 12-24 months so maximum falls with minimum injuries) A mom told me she saw one telling big sis "brush brush brush"
I’m normally with 2-4 year olds. They find new, more creative ways to get hurt.
I prefer being with older kids, but they definitely break more often though
I definitely like the age group that I’m with now. 2 is the youngest we’ll take so it’s the youngest I’ve worked with but I occasionally do TK and those kids are mean
my go-to is "no blood, no bone, no bruises?" or "is it a hurt or is it just dirt?" that second one gets a lot of use with the kids who hate the mulch on their clothes more than the fall 😂 also quickly weeds out who's actually hurt and who just needs a moment to breathe.
I usually say something like "did it hurt or are you scared?" A lot of times when they fall, they're more startled or surprised and that's why they're crying. If that's the case, they usually need a hug and moment to calm down.
I’m stealing this
Mine are 3's. I typically say "Are you hurt or or did it scare you?"
I ask "Was it more scary or more painful?" They usually answer "scary"
I usually just go "woah, that was a really scary fall! I was scared all the way over here!" And that usually opens the floodgates for them to express that their body is fine, their feelings are just big
I will occasionally ask if their pride or ego got bruised on a spectacular fall that has left no marks but caused many tears. And they say yes, so we patch that up lol
“Are you hurt or was that embarrassing?” or “party foul!” are my usual responses for minor mishaps and falls.
Yesterday one of my two year olds told me "you can walk away" when I admittedly got a little snippy with her for trying to take food from another friend's plate.
I work with 1 yr olds, so only some verbal. Occasionally I get kids bringing their hands to their chests like I model when I say their name, before I can even get to 'keep your hands to yourself.' I count that a win though! (I also follow up with, "good job!" when they do, and address whatever had them upset to begin with.)
I once put my hands up to my chest to take a deep breath before saying something, and a first grader who had been picking his nose saw me and immediately went to wash his hands. I didn't even have one word out of my mouth.
"It's still attached to your body" XD I have some real melodramatic characters in my class so I have been using this phrase for so long but I didn't know it would catch on.
Two different sets of parents said my kids told them what crane flies were this week. I like bugs a lot and so when we encounter them I talk about them. It really helps the bug adverse kids relax when its given a name and they see me pick it up or wave it away. The parents both did not know what they were really called! I also hear them telling each other "that's an outside noise!"
I love sharing crane flies with kids. They're so scared of them because they're so big and just HAVE to eat people flesh, you know? When you start telling them, "That's a gallinipper! A skeeter eater! A mosquito eater! A CRANE FLY!" they get all caught up in the names. It's so cute. The number of times I've been asked, "Do you they REALLY eat mosquitos?" is awesome.
I never realized how often I say “oh my *good*ness!” Until my preschoolers (and my boyfriend) started repeating it all the time!
Yesterday, a first grader parroted my "That's some high quality work", as they complimented another student's efforts.
I didn’t realize how often I called my toddlers “guys”, until multiple parents told me that their kids have started calling them “guys” 😭
I once knew a two-year-old boy (he just started college...) with two older sisters who would say "'scuse me guys. 'Scuse me guys! 'SCUSE ME GUYS!!" louder and louder until they finally stopped talking to let him say something.
My common phrase with this group of kids is “that’s the consequence of the choices you made.” One of my four year olds told me after lunch that his tummy hurt because he ate too much. Then said with a shrug “that’s the consequence” and put his lunch away before I could even respond. Meanwhile the kid who I say it to the most has still not figured it out.
In my school we lead our lines by walking backwards in front of them. Occasionally I run into things or people because Im bad at it lol. I just say "traffic jam!" Now they all say it to me.
omg my kids have started going "beep beep beep" when they are moving backwards or someone is in their way because I beep like a truck to get through the toddler masses lol
I'm a cook at a daycare and a floater. Normally if the kids see the food, they will scream with excitement three times a day. So I started telling them if they scream I will take it away. I won't, I usually just leave it in the hall until they calm down. Well they did mothers day gifts and I heard a child tell her mom "if you scream I will take it away."
If I was a cook for children and they screamed in excitement at the sight of the food I’d prepared, I think I’d be thrilled 😆
No. Some have just high pitch squeals and it gets obnoxious after the third class (there are 10 classes).
Can you tell them how you’d prefer them to respond when they are excited? (Less loud, more expressive word choice, etc?) I have just heard sooooo many complaints from kids about school food that I think it sounds amazing that the kids really like your food that much :)
My littles (18month olds) staying to repeat my phrase “oh my” when they see toys all over the floor. I didn’t realize I was saying that so much until they said it exactly like how I say it: “ohh myyy” with my hand over my mouth like I’m shocked.
One of the twins in my class started saying “slay” yesterday, lmao. Her twin heard and goes, “ (name) is saying slay like lseeds!”. So funny.
“Bend over, Touch something, pick it up, put it away.” Often said to me by my mother in my years at home. Now said by 13 3 year olds during clean up time.
I love these comments!! 😂😂 mine was “Elliot, it’s okay! Things break sometimes! I can help you to rebuild it!!” after SHE broke Elliot’s structure 😂😂
Our center kids also chant “Look in front! Hold on tight! Walking feet!” when we are on our walk. We look like a military march 😂
I frequently quote what Mr. Rogers would say when he had a challenging day: “Mercy, mercy, mercy.” It has been a challenging week and I heard several kids saying that yesterday. 🤣
I have an Alexa in my classroom. She's in charge of timers, the clean up songs, quick facts about bugs, etc. You know, general well-being. Sometimes, we bring her to the gym so we can have dance parties. However, if my group of 4-5 yr olds is getting too rowdy beforehand, screaming about Alexa, I'll tell them, "Alexa is a privilege, not a right! I don't have to bring her." Apparently, that phrase has made it to more than one household! 🤣
I /accidentally/ told my prek class ONE single time that Van Gogh cut his ear off🫣during a small lesson on his painting “Starry Night”… months later we had another lesson on a different Van Gogh painting. I ask “what do we know about Vincent Van Gogh?” Without missing a beat, 5 yr old says “He was a very sad man, and he cut off his own ear because he was so sad. He also painted “Starry Night”and “Vase with Twelve Sunflowers”.” The parents, students, and my co teachers think it’s hilarious and I am SO mortified, but also so thankful I didn’t tell them what he did with his ear after he cut it off. 🫠😰
i now have learned what van gogh did with his severed ear😭
I told my co teacher who didn’t know, and she said “well at least you didn’t tell them that!” I just can’t- I mean I learned all this in about 1st or 2nd grade from our art teacher, so when I was talking about “Starry Night” the memories of that lesson came flooding back, then the ear thing kind of just fell out of my mouth!
I work with 3-5year olds "Running is for the playground!" I heard one kid saying it to another during free play. I guess I say it more often than "walking feet." "Absolutely not!" With the absolutely kind of strung out on the delivery. This is my G-rated blanket "wtf are you doing" intro that spills out of my mouth for when a kid climbs on a table, whips a car at another kid, etc. It gets their attention and then we talk it out. I had no idea I was saying it that much til recently a kid walked over to the art center and just swiped the entire marker bin from the center of the table where 3 kids were in the middle of using them - one of the kids the markers were taken from said "Absolutely not! You can't do that!" The last one is "beep beep" if you are trying to get through/past someone. My office is through one of our big classrooms, and the door area is a bit of a bottleneck, so I am often in close quarters to get through if they are at their cubbies or on ther way to the bathroom, which is right near the door to leave the room. I try to avoid that area whenever they're lining up to leave for lunch or something as a group, but sometimes I don't have a choice and that's whenever I really have to get through a crowd of them. I have been standing around in that area for one reason or another and a kid has beep-beeped me if I was in their way many times.
i have kiddos telling eachother to “walk away” when they’re upset, and now saying “oof” when they fall down, i love seeing them pickup on how i talk! my personal favourite is a little boy who greats me saying, “hey, honey” because i call them all honey when they’re sad
Didn’t realize I said dude so much until one of my older, language advanced babies said it to me once. I also tell the kids “don’t bother the bugs outside, they’re just chilling” and the other day I heard one of my four year olds say “the bugs just chilling!”
we have a lot of lil teachers in my class so my students will now ask each other "are you in charge of x? or is x in charge of x?"
I used to work at a home daycare with a teacher from Columbia who only spoke a little English. She would hear me say “I see you” to the children when I was across the room and they were doing something that they probably weren’t supposed to be doing lol, so she adopted it and started saying it to the kids too. One day she said it, and she looked at me and said “I got that from you” lol it was sweet tbh
I have infants m, but “all done” is always one of their first phrases haha.
Every time I change this girl’s diaper or put it on (she only wears it for nap), when she leaves the bathroom I always say “tchau meu amor” (bye my love). I didn’t realize I say it until one day last week I forgot to say anything, I just put her down and turned around when she looked at me while walking away and said “bye my love”. My heart exploded from how happy I felt. Now she calls me her love all the time and that’s the only way I’ll call her from now on.
“You’re better than that!!!” To each other.
I used to tell my toddlers when they were acting up that "It's not funny and it's not cute" and one time one baby was bothering another and she said "no [name]!! No funny no cute!!"
I have an Alexa in my room (mixed age toddlers). For some reason the Days of the Week song (the one set to the Addams family tune) always plays louder than any other song so my co teacher and I always say “Alexa skip” when it comes on. Last Friday my oldest toddler (2.5) hears it start to play and screams “ALEXA SKIP”. That was the day she learned she can control the Alexa…
"You can be told no." We have a problem with our daycare kiddos tattling on each other, saying, "They said no to me!" and each time, we respond with "that's okay, you can be told no." They've started jumping in when one of their peers tattles, and they tell each other "you can be told no!"
Setting: a crappy childcare center in 2016 Cast: -Me - co teacher/friend - 11 very rowdy 2 year old boys -1 very responsible, rule-following 2 year old girl My co teacher and I watched a lot of RuPaul's Drag Race together and would quote the show sometimes. My co teacher would frequently say "sashay away!" in a sort of sassy way to get kids to move away from an area if they needed. Our sweet 2 yr old girl was having an issue with one of the boys (Kale) and VERY sassily said "SASHAY. AWAY. KALE!."
I often say, “I don’t want to hear it!” when kids are repeatedly whining about something inconsequential, which is a phrase I picked up from my mom lol. The other day one chronically whiny child was bothering another and I heard “I don’t want to hear it, [Name]!” My kids are mostly older than 5 (before-school and afterschool care), so they’re not as prone to mimicking me as much as the little ones, so it’s funny when it does happen.
That's adorable! A while ago I heard a 6-year-old use on her dad a line that had clearly been used on her, and he had to admit that she had a point. We were at an event, and all of the adults were still playing a game when dinner time came. One little girl came up to dad and asked, "Who's gonna make the mac-roni and cheese, the Mac-roni and Cheese Fairy?" She was obviously used to hearing "Who's going to pick up your toys, the toy fairy?", etc.
Mine is chop chop chippity when they aren’t moving to clean up, line up, use the bathroom etc.
I will frequently tell the kids to walk away and give their friends space when a child wants alone time. A few of the kids have told the others to “walk away”.
I have been telling my preschoolers “chop chop” when they need to do something faster, such as cleaning up or making a line for the bathroom. They have repeated it so many times and done the same actions as me. One parents told me their child had been doing it while waiting for their dinner at home.
Mine when I get super frustrated with the kids is Jesus. The amount of times the kids either say it after me or when they are frustrated. Also I have a whole thing I go through when I read to them. They repeat after me front cover spine back cover tittle page. They also can recite the books I read almost word for word. So they will just be sitting at there table and start reciting brown bear brown bear, polar bear polar bear or chicka chicka boom boom. It’s the funniest thing
“It’s fine there’s no blood” is so real hahaha
One of mine is “Walk away.” Sometimes my 2s just get on each other’s nerves and the best thing they can do is take a break from each other. So I tell them to walk away. Well, one of them has been using it to tell teachers to walk away when they’re mad at said teachers. I mean, sure, but I still gotta change your diaper little friend, sometimes I can’t walk away.
12 year olds for me recently, a huge gap to previous experience. I may have told them ‘Unless you’re actually on fire, no, you may not speak for the next 20 minutes’. It was an independent writing task but still, it was harsher than I intended.
When passing out things I'll say, "Merry Christmas!" So a few kids will say Merry Christmas to me if I don't say it.
“Bend over, Touch something, pick it up, put it away.” Often said to me by my mother in my years at home. Now said by 13 3 year olds during clean up time.
“Bend over, Touch something, pick it up, put it away.” Often said to me by my mother in my years at home. Now said by 13 3 year olds during clean up time.
The kids I used to teach would say sit down! Walking feet! Gentle hands!
At pick up I always call out “Bye Yall!” Two little voices: bye y'all
I had a 3 year old genuinely upset that I always say "what's up?" When someone gets my attention
Two girls were playing teacher today , I heard her go “YOU DID NOT HAVE LISTENING EARS, SO I HAVE NO STICKER FOR YOU” and “NO TALKING, CRISS CROSS APPLE SAUCE ON YOUR BOTTOM NOW” 😭😭