The Muffin Man
My kiddo is completely unable to say his own name.
He can say a number of random words, including “elephant,” “strawberry,” and “hippopotamus,” but he mangles his own name.
Instead of “Griffin,” it comes out MIFFIN.
Which is, frankly, hilarious.
However, I recently took the opportunity to try and correct this. We’ve been reading a lot of animal books lately, as he digs the animals. Instead of telling him that bear says rawr, I went with bear says grrr.
He gives me this evil toothy grin and says, GRRR.
Great! Says I, now say, GRRRR-IFFIN.
The little punk has been periodically looking up at me ever since, giving me that evil grin, and telling me his name is GRRR-MIFFIN..
Melisa says:
May 8th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
But do you know the Grrrr-muffin man?
Louise says:
May 9th, 2009 at 8:26 am
My mom had the same problem with me. My name was “Woo-weese”, in my mind. Mom would be like “Okay repeat after me… La la la, Louise!” and I would say “La la la, woo-weese!”. So uh… he’s not alone? Wait. I’m not sure emulating me is the best claim to fame. Forget I said anything.
Kara says:
May 9th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Rock on, Miffin. Rock on.
My sister called me Kia for the first couple years of her life. I never thought I’d be so glad when she finally managed that R sound.
RobMonroe says:
May 11th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Have you just tried “Dark Lord” instead? Seems easier than the “gr” sound.
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Melisa says:
May 15th, 2009 at 9:14 am
On second thought, I think you should just teach him to say, “EEEEEEEEEviiillllll!” when people ask him his name.