To teach my 2 year old to say "fart?"

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Exactly that..that is what he says at the moment, so do we.But most of my friends are teaching"pump, trump " etc.Is fart considered a rude word for toddlers?

DS (2.2) says 'parp' because that's what DH says. He's started saying 'trump' which is what the childminder's kids say.

Hopefully he won't get the habit of yelling 'nurse!' as DH does.

at 'nurse'

In answer to those who asked why I needed to teach him,I didn't specifically teach him, he has just picked it up.We also have a baby and either he or my husband is always "breaking wind " and it is natural that it gets commented on in this house , same as "Oh have you done a poo?" "DS2 has been sick" etc.Growing up we had to say " made a smell" which is silly & euphemistic , but I also realise " fart" may not be quite right either so I'm curious as to see what is acceptable. at "traf" though, might adopt that!

my high school boyfriend used to say 'get the midwife!' just before farting.

Clearly my taste in men has not changed in 15 years!

I hate "blow-off"

It reminds me of school story time in the 1970's, sitting on the grey mat behind a farting grey bottom!

Ha ha, I'm with you on this! We said "Have you done a poo?" (peering into nappy) "Nope, must have just been a fart then". DD (2yo) apparently picked up on this. I collected her from nursery and they said that DD had emitted a noise and said, very loudly, "FART!". Nursery thought it quite funny but corrected her to say "Trump". She has ignored this and still says fart. It had never occurred to me that this might be a 'bad' word!

My DD is 2.6 and calls it a rip - she picked this up from our neighbours kids who are German mother tongue and call them rip-offs.

I do find it amusing though if I ask her if she has a poo in her nappy, she has been known to reply "No, there's just wees and some rips"

Genuinely curious - why is belly rude?! What do you call belly laughs and belly dancers? What do you use to rhyme with jelly in the Night Before Christmas?

In our house we use Pump or occasionally it's a Pumpadoodle

I remember a conversation with DS's head teacher when he was in the infants about his use of the word 'Fart' on the playground (DS's not HT's). Told HT that DS must be copying someone he had heard on the playground as he always used the words 'bottom burp' at home - so the school was indeed providing an all round education!!!
Bizarre thing to be discussing with HT. If only fart was the worst word DS used now -- he's 14!!!

I've heard people say windy pops too. Our old childminder called it a 'pop'

We say bum noise. Didn't ever plan to, that was just what ds1 called it himself when he was little and so ds2 calls it that too. Mind you ds2 also thinks he has a tail so we're not the best people to follow!
I don't have a problem with fart tho.

I don't think people think belly is rude, just common

ScaredBear - I think you inadvertently hit the nail on the head.

"who made that smell?"
" 'twas me mummy, a fart, I shit you not"

Dh taught dd to say fart when she was 18 months... She shouts it out now when she hears one or something simikar... I did apologise to the nursery but hey ho... Its just a word

We call them parps! Nothing against 'fart', its just that my Bristolian accent gets really broad when I say it, and someone WILL take the piss.

I'm afraid we do say fart. I was raised to call it 'breaking' or 'passing' wind which seems a bit prim to me.

DH's Aunt, Uncle and their children are very open and unashamed about breaking wind and they shout out 'WHO's SHAT?' at the merest whiff. I have never encountered anything like it in my life.

It's breaking wind. All the other words are horrible and I wouldn't like to hear a 2 year old using them

I know feel vair old fashioned

now even

I agree with catgirl.

I am very old fashioned. Plus I have girls and we are rather a prim family who do not go in for discussing bodily functions. We have friends with boys who don't seem to discuss anything else .

It's got to be "guff". Cute, to the point, not too rude, funny.

When DCs were small we said "windy pops" or sometimes whizz poppers (from the BFG). As a child in the 1960s I knew them as "rude windies" . Now we all say "fart", which I didn't hear until I was 10!!

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "trump" in real life!

we use fart and as far as I know all dgc do too though the 2 year old insists on saying,'got party pants' when he has farted.I grew up saying 'pump'-North East and was horrified to hear 'pumps' for what we called sandshoes and Southerners knew as plimsolls!

I have been out doing a street survey for you all this morning - many people ran away as they thought I was signing them up for Dr. Barnardos at £5 per month - but I can reveal that the majority of people in Suffolk "blow off" :)

Pumps up here, which the DCs think is hilarious, 'cos plimsolls are also pumps!

Dahn sarf where I lived as a child we said blow off - so anytime someone says something like "watch that doesn't blow out" I find myself sniggering, 40-odd years later