Re: Correcting the little one
You can correct it by saying the word properly yourself..... so like if he says "Mama I want foo-boops" ...you can say "Ok I'll bring you some fruit loops" .....
my 2 yr old neice says the word butterfly as "bup-pa-pie"....so whenever she says "look at the pretty buppapie" ....i say "yes that it is beautiful butterfly"....
anyway....i agree...it does sound cute ...you can't help but smile. :)
and this is exactly how you should handle it.... well at least this is what a child psychologist would suggest.
it surprises me when i see some parents/adults/care takers, desi or non-desi, reinforcing the child's wrong pronunciations by repeating it themselves... and then bingo we get new words like duddo or wawa instead of doodh or milk.
Now now, how about a four-year-old, always replacing "s" with the "sh" in the word sit, saying "i want to sit" ?????
me got such a piece at ma house.
and me is a proud parent.:D