Brits with American Kids
Aug 1st 2012, 11:56 pm
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Aug 2nd 2012, 12:06 am
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Re: Brits with American Kids
Everyone I knew in Sheffield (where I grew up) wanted the other Sheffield footie team to win if their team were not playing. Not so with hubby...he wants any team but Everton to win. If Everton play Man U...then he wants Man U to win. 
He saw Liverpool play Toronto a couple of weeks ago...in Toronto. The place was full of scousers.
He saw Liverpool play Toronto a couple of weeks ago...in Toronto. The place was full of scousers.
Aug 2nd 2012, 3:38 am
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Aug 2nd 2012, 4:44 am
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Aug 2nd 2012, 4:48 am
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Aug 3rd 2012, 6:37 am
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Re: Brits with American Kids
Before my kids started school, they would switch how they talked depending on if they were talking to me (Brit) or my hubby (yank). When they started school that all changed now I am constantly told 'that's not how you say it'
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I do make a point of reminding them they are half and half and make sure that install some 'Britness' in them.
. I do make a point of reminding them they are half and half and make sure that install some 'Britness' in them.
Aug 3rd 2012, 1:44 pm
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Re: Brits with American Kids
They may have been told that at school. Kids change their accents in self-defense as often as not, so as a parent I never wanted to add to the stress level of my kids. One calls me "mum", one calls me "mom". It was always up to them which words they used.
Aug 3rd 2012, 5:29 pm
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Re: Brits with American Kids
At least I have no problem finding them over here.
Aug 4th 2012, 6:38 pm
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Re: Brits with American Kids
New to BE - Welcome
Kid on the way - congratulations
Scouser - err, as Meatloaf said, 2 out of 3 aint bad
I'm the Brit, wife is American. We've got 3 kids - 7, 9 and 11. Youngest 2 were born here (Texas), eldest in Singapore. None of them are curious about my origins, because we go to the UK at least once a year to visit family - the 9 year old is desperate to move to the UK! The eldest is very curious about Singapore as he was 18 months old when we left, and he's never been back, so we're hoping to get over there next year.
Despite their origins, and having been here for 10 years, the kids all speak with an English accent still. The youngest has a few twinges of Texan coming in now and then, but still doesn't really sound proper local.
Kid on the way - congratulations
Scouser - err, as Meatloaf said, 2 out of 3 aint bad
I'm the Brit, wife is American. We've got 3 kids - 7, 9 and 11. Youngest 2 were born here (Texas), eldest in Singapore. None of them are curious about my origins, because we go to the UK at least once a year to visit family - the 9 year old is desperate to move to the UK! The eldest is very curious about Singapore as he was 18 months old when we left, and he's never been back, so we're hoping to get over there next year.
Despite their origins, and having been here for 10 years, the kids all speak with an English accent still. The youngest has a few twinges of Texan coming in now and then, but still doesn't really sound proper local.
Our daughter was born in England, and we moved to the states when she was 2.5 years old. I've got a few snippets of video of her singing nursery rhymes with an adorable English accent, and she held onto that accent for a few years. But as soon as she started school, that accent faded.
Aug 4th 2012, 7:08 pm
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Re: Brits with American Kids
We moved over here when my twin boys were 10 (they will be 15 in october), and I thought they would keep their british accents......
Yeah, that was a mistake. Within 3 months they started to lose it, and now, they are 100% American, all the time. To the extent when they tell people they lived in England for 10 years, they get called liars.
One of them though, has come up with the great idea that we should be making a trip back to the UK so they can be a hit with the girls with their 'merican-ness.... then they will pick up the English accent again and by the time they come back here they will have the English-ness back and will be a hit with the girls back here.
Bloody horny teenagers.
Yeah, that was a mistake. Within 3 months they started to lose it, and now, they are 100% American, all the time. To the extent when they tell people they lived in England for 10 years, they get called liars.
One of them though, has come up with the great idea that we should be making a trip back to the UK so they can be a hit with the girls with their 'merican-ness.... then they will pick up the English accent again and by the time they come back here they will have the English-ness back and will be a hit with the girls back here.
Bloody horny teenagers.
Aug 4th 2012, 9:00 pm
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