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How You Doin’

Benjamin has a new habit that is slowly driving me crazy (as if I wasn’t already there):

He’s dropping the final consonant sound from a bunch of words when he speaks. Mostly ‘ing’ words.

Speaking becomes speakin’. Lifting becomes liftin’. Being is bein’. Doing is doin’. Driving is drivin’…and so on.

Well, guess what kid? You are drivinG me up the wall.

Now, I’m not a member of the speech-police (‘hey’ and ‘yeah’ play a prominent role in my vocabulary!), nor do I expect Benjamin to walk around speaking as though he’s auditioning for Masterpiece Theatre. But, could we not have a little more diction, please?

Our conversation about 20 minutes ago went like this:

Ben: “Hey Mommy. Look at my colorin’.”

Me: “Good job Ben. And it’s coloring.”

Ben: “Yeah. Colorin’.”

Me: “No Ben. Coloring…say the “ing” at the end of the word, please.”

Ben (more or less rolling his baby-blues at me): “Coloring-GA.” (Um...was that attitude I detected?)

Now, Benjamin is the kid who never stops talking. He uttered his first three-word sentence at 18 months, and hasn’t quit since. And his speech has always been clear as a bell. So, I am sure this is just a phase, as are most of the other kooky, drive-me-insane things that my kids do.

And Pierre (he of the French accent) sometimes pokes fun at the way I speak. I tend to over-pronounce words, and apparently cannot say the word vodka properly (maybe that’s because I’m a wine drinker!). And of course, I’ve been known to drop an ‘eh’ every once in a while. 

So, as with all things kid-related, I am sure that this too shall pass. In the meantime however, I will try to refrain from being all over Benjamin like jam on peanut butter each time that he pulls a Joey (as in Friends. Don’t you miss Friends?).

I know, I know. I’ll be workinG on pickinG my battles.

xo Naomi

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