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?

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We say fart or trump here. Sometimes guff too.
The best thing to do is to lift phrases from Roger's Profanisaurus to teach them, such as
"Speak up Brown!"
"Don't tear it, I'll have the whole piece"
"Your horn works, now try the wipers"
Or, from the olden days "Smell the air, there's vitamins"

my 2 year old has randomly decided to call them Stinky woof woofs [hgrin], shes an odd little thing but she makes me laugh.

I really don't get the fuss about fart. You could always introduce it to them via this ditty we used to sing at school (kids are just a bit foul bless'em...get over it).

Beans Beans they're good for your heart
The more you eat the more you fart
The more you fart the better you feel
Let's have beans for every meal!

PS Have never ever heard the word 'trump' and amen't sure why its better than 'fart'.

19mo DD announces every single fart with 'I fart, I stink' or 'I poo, I stink'

My nephew calls them 'chuffs' so if he's really windy he gets called a chuff bum!

Ha ha - my son says "fart." He's two.
He also (thanks to his father) can say putang. I am not encouraging this. At all. I am praying he does not ever say it in public.

Me: DS, is there a poo in your nappy?
DS: No, it was just a smelly fart.

However, FIL was completely scandalised, that we allowed DS to say fart. When he was a little boy he got slapped quite hard for using that word.

So now...
DH: DS, is there a poo in your nappy?
DS: No, it was just a bubble from my bottom

Bethshine, what does "putang" mean? Is it rude?

Windy pops for us or plain old windies when they get older.
I find the word fart pretty offensive. If I wouldn't say it in the office, it isn't appropriate for my kids to use.
I am quite surprised how many people on here think it's ok.

We use pop or trump or occasionally windy-pop - bit twee, I know. I dislike the phrase 'breaking wind', not sure why - possibly because too evasive, like calling the loo 'the WC'. And don't like fart. My brother and I used to call them guffs, maybe I should resurrect that, seems quite harmless and always used to make us laugh. A lot. Which, in retrospect, must have been tedious for our parents.

Someone above mentioned a Bristolian accent - have some friends in Bristol, their DD has a broad Bristolian accent and the other day she said 'I did a farrrrrt' before hastily correcting herself to 'I did a flufferrrrr' . Twas ver amusing.

It means fanjo, doesn't it - thought it was 'poontang', though?

We say 'popped', 'pop' ect. I do not like the word fart to be honest. We haven't 'taught' them to say it, anymore than we taught them to say 'cup' for a cup, it is just what they are reffered to in our house and what they have picked up on. They do not really say it loud enough in public for anyone to think they said 'plop', and have never noticed anbyone move away!

We say fart actually, I always have.

I do think it might be a location thing tho, as round here (Derbyshire) most people I know say trump.

Makes it awkward in the school bridge club with a load of giggling yr 7s

Re people who say it's offensive - tbh, no, I wouldn't say it in the office; but then I wouldn't have cause to tbh - I wouldn't expect anyone to fart.

Don't talk about willies much in the office either (sadly).

It's more a word for our bathroom really - "DS1 did you just fart?" and let's face it, that's not a place for politeness

Dh did 'teach' ds1 the word 'ghoulies' the other day, bless him! Ds1 thinks it is a very funny word and randomly uses it (he is nearly 6).

My mother has taught DS to say 'WindyWoo!' when he does one. I'm amused and embarrassed in equal measures when he says it in front of strangers.

Ahaha - My Ex-MIL IS a unique weirdo one then. It drives me beyond distraction when she calls a fart a 'cough in yer rompers'. FFS IT'S A FART woman. Fart fart fart fart fart.

And yes - my 9yo does say he needs to defecate when he needs to defecate!

I'm really surprised that the word 'fart' is offensive to some. To me it's just the obvious word for describing a bodily function. I don't like words like 'trump' and 'passing wind/breaking wind' sound too old fashioned.

Ha, this made me laugh! The DDs picked up 'pump' from nursery and I really, really hate it. I hesitated for a second over 'fart' as I don't think it will go down too well with the grandparents but decided it will be the word of choice eventually so may as well use it now. 'Trump' was used in my house when I was a kid but that makes me cringe too.

Incidentaly (thread hijack) if you have a DD, what do you use as a label for vagina?? Most terms seem either too twee, gynecological or sexual - no simple equivalent of 'Willy' and not keen on the thought of one of my small children shouting "mummy, I have an itchy vagina" on the bus. Nursery seem to be using 'front bottom' but that seems too coy. Any advance on 'fanjo'? Though a wail of "mummy, I have an itchy fanjo"isn't floating my boat either...

It's a 'pop pop' in our house

We say farty (all 3 kids under 6) - rhymes with party, just to soften the blow!