Front bum and behind bum?? What the...?!

[i-need-a-martini]

I was just reading this article about what kids are allowed to call their bits and am seriously amused.

http://www.essentialkids.com.au/preschoolers/preschooler-education/its-not-a-lady-garden-its-a-vulva...

I grew up not calling my bits anything. Was all too embarrassing for my family. And it took me a long time to manage to say the correct words without turning beet red. Now I say them any chance I get so my kids hear real words.

So what were you taught to say and what did you teach your kids to say?

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

doodles.

Male and female bits were called doodles in my family when I was a kid

[amber-eyed-girl]

This is a doodle.

Spoiler

[icyfroth]

Calling things by their proper name is all very well until your child says " my mum can't help with sports today she's bleeding from her **bleep**".

As happened to my daughter when dropping off my (then littler) granddaughter at school.

Nobody knew where to look, apparently.

[azureline**]

I don't know....... can't recall, probably nothing........... I think my kids called their's names they made up

winkle, private bits, doodle, genitals...................

I do get irritated when I hear kids being told that they have a **bleep** or a **bleep**. I recently was engaged in a conversation where a mum was telling us her child's **bleep** was hanging out her shorts 😮 so I suggested she needed a medical appointment. The mum got a bit irate, lol, didn't think I needed to be so exact.

Obviously she isn't teaching her child the correct names for body parts.

OK, it seems you still can't say that here, insert V and P

[icyfroth]

I don't like to hear young children using words like V****a and P***s.

There's nothing wrong with calling it "front of bum", or "bottom", or "down below", terms like that.

A bit of decorum is always nice.

[azureline**]

without the correct terms, my post above makes no sense really.

The mum said her child's v***** was hanging out her shorts. Clearly that is impossible since it is not an outside organ.

[lloydslights]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Calling things by their proper name is all very well until your child says " my mum can't help with sports today she's bleeding from her **bleep**".

As happened to my daughter when dropping off my (then littler) granddaughter at school.

Nobody knew where to look, apparently.

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I understand she is your daughter, Icyfroth, but that embarrassment was brought on by herself.  How or why would her young child know that her mum was bleeding?  

I sometimes think, we adults can give out too much info too soon.  Being  "open"  should be age appropriate.

We called our "private parts" by their proper names and that there was a time and place for discussion of those "parts".

I remember that I felt uncomfortable for a new girl at primary school whose name was Gina.

DEB

[mugssy65]

We were like Martini, it was never mentioned.
I remember a little girl once telling her mother at the park that she fell on a pole and hurt her "toaster!!"
I always thought that was a strange place to put ya bread! Lol

[lloydslights]

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@azureline** wrote:

without the correct terms, my post above makes no sense really.

The mum said her child's v***** was hanging out her shorts. Clearly that is impossible since it is not an outside organ.

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I read your post wrongly.  I thought she was talking of a boy. Then I couldn't understand your reply.  Now I'm embarrassed.

Was the discussion about a teenage girl?  If so, the shorts were so tight that something was hanging?  This is getting worse

DEB