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?

[icyfroth]

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@lloydslights wrote:

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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?  

Well she probably saw something, Deb, and asked about it. My daughter also felt, like Martini, that it's best to explain things without shrouding them in mystery, to call things by their proper name etc.

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 still rarely call things V****a or P***s, unless I'm in a formal discussion with health care professional or something

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

DEB

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[lurker172602]

I honestly don't understand what is wrong with using the correct words. By using euphemisms in the interests of "niceness" aren't we insinuating that v's and p' are not "nice" ?

Of, course, there is a time and place for any discussion and probably at the church picnic is not it. But is it made any less embarrassing, when little Mary announces her front bottom is itchy than if she said her v is?

[purple_haize]

Back in the 50's when I was growing up it was never mentioned by my parents or anyone else for that matter. Never talked about when I was with friends.....................everything was very prim and proper.

[azureline**]

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@lloydslights wrote:

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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

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It was a 3 yo she was talking about.

[i-need-a-martini]

I am surprised that some of you are still embarressed to be caling them by their correct names. I would have thought all that would be gone with a previous generation.

And I don't believe that it is correct to give them the names when they are age appropriate. How do you go from calling it a euphemism for the first 10 years of your life and then to suddenly calling it by it's proper name?

I think I would have a fit of giggles if any of my friends called their bits anything other than the real name in a social conversation.

[azureline**]

well, besides euphemism being a hard word to say

[bluecat*dancing]

Why not use the correct names for genitalia? Seems a bit prudish and childish not to. My kids were taught about private parts with girls having a v agina and boys having a p enis.

[i-need-a-martini]

Besides I can't figure out what other word you would use for a v agina.

There are plenty of words for a p enis - doodle, willy, etc - but at least they still describe the actually part.

The others words for v agina completely ignore it - front bum, private parts etc.

[azureline**]

the correct term for a girl is vulva I believe.

[cherples]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Besides I can't figure out what other word you would use for a v agina.

There are plenty of words for a p enis - doodle, willy, etc - but at least they still describe the actually part.

The others words for v agina completely ignore it - front bum, private parts etc.

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As if it's something to be embarrassed about ...

There really is no need for the taboo.