Do you use big words around your kids?  

My husband and I are always trying to use new words around our son. He is very inquisitive and will 99% of the time ask us what that means and learn a new word! The other day we were playing a game and he learned the word "participant". It is also fun to watch them say these new words :)

Not so much around my girl, she knows a lot of words, but how do you make 'NO' a bigger word? LOL We'll se as she grows bigger, but if she's anything like me at all, she'll figure it out. I was a avid reader as a kid and she so has that already!

That really does not work too good for us...LOL

# of our choldren are grown in their late 20's and our 5 yr. old thinks he is 20 as well...LMAO

We never used baby talk and he has an extensive vocabulary...if you use a word he does not understand he will quickly tell you...."what does that mean??" or "I don't understand".....

We have to talk privately to not worry him about things...he is very attentive....LOL

My parents raised us on big words. They didn't want to patronize us by leaving us out of the discussion, or making us feel like idiots. The odd time Mom would discuss our Christmas presents with her parents in Danish, but that's the only time she ever hid anything from us.

Sometimes we use new words but our son gives us a curious look. He learns things quickly so it is difficult to use new words.

From the time my children were born, I used the same vocabulary with them that I use with anyone else. For that reason, my youngest daughter said to me at eighteen months:"These blocks won't cooperate." When I asked her what she had said, she rephrased it to "They won't do what I want them to do." So she knew what the word meant and wasn't just using a word she had overheard! If we needed to talk about "adult stuff" we did it when they were sleeping, or in the privacy of our own room while they were busy doing other things.