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

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downpipe · 28/10/2011 09:09

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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Nevertooearlyforcake · 29/10/2011 22:13

If someone has farted in the office (never ever me [hgrin]) we all just sit around pretending it hasn't happened. However if forced to acknowledge a whiff I'd say 'fart', maybe not to the chief exec but I'd be comfortable with the terminology to at least senior management level...

serin · 29/10/2011 22:21

Urgh to Fart.

'Tis Trump.

TheSecondComing · 29/10/2011 22:30

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Cathycomehome · 29/10/2011 22:43

Well, you live and learn. I never knew "fart" was offensive. When did that happen?

I do regularly have to say things like "OK, yep, that was hilarious, shall we just get on with the lesson" though....

stripes1 · 29/10/2011 22:59

DS (23mo) has recently started to say 'fartypants' (after us saying, 'who's a great big fartypants?' etc whenever he farts) and in the last week 'daddy fartypants', fortunately for DH not in front of strangers!

Letz · 30/10/2011 00:16

Trump?? Yuck..sounds really awful to my ears! I agree fart doesn't sound much better and I personally try to avoid using the word but as others have said it is what it is. I think I will teach my kids to say guff because it sounds funny :) I can't beleive people are actually offended when they hear the word "fart" ffs! Precious or what?!

Soups · 30/10/2011 00:31

Trump and pump do not sound good to me, they're too descriptive and make me feel a bit sick. Fart is a bit more airy sounding and that's what I prefer [hgrin]

PeneloPeePitstop · 30/10/2011 00:41

It is what it is.
A fart is a fart.
All my kids use it.

Plus now DS1 reads it all the time in Captain Underpants....

PoppaRob · 30/10/2011 04:36

It's pop off here. My 2 1/2 year old grand-daughter pops off. Poppa farts. And yes, she uses both expressions and thinks they're both hilarious!

TheHumancatapult · 30/10/2011 04:52

First time ds3 ever managed two words together was I fart after ds1 asked who farted ds1 was 16

Considering I waited over 5 years for ds3 to talk I was not going to correct that Grin so in our house they are farts

Bearskinwoolies · 30/10/2011 15:17

Given that ds calls himself Fartacus, and calls dd Princess Fartalot, we go along with fart.

dollydoops · 30/10/2011 18:32

My mum used to call them 'bottycoughs' [hblush] Does she win the tweeness competition?!

perplexedpirate · 30/10/2011 18:36

DS (3.10) says trump, but he also says bloody, and sometimes if we need to let off steam of a rainy afternoon we both run around the house shouting "bloody hell!" at the tops of our voices.
All of which I think shows it's very much personal opinion.

HauntyMython · 30/10/2011 18:42

DD just ended up saying "I have wind in my bum". I think she ended up picking up the word Wind because we used to ask her if it was poo or "just wind" when she was still in nappies. She used to say "just nind" :)

She's only just, at 4.3, started using the word fart. And she says it several times a day Hmm

aquashiv · 30/10/2011 18:45

I cant stand the pump/perp/bum trump/ or any other of these foolish words to disguise the real mccoy. A fart is a fart

effingwotnots · 30/10/2011 18:49

Fart in this household too. And if they follow through we get skiddage.

fortifiedwithtea · 30/10/2011 20:15

This must surely trump all other tweeness. When I was growing up a fart was called dropping a button. All because as a totI let rip in front of very elderly neighbour and it was her expression for a fart. Mum thought it cute maybe (who knows what goes on in her mind) and the phrase stuck.

I don't remember what age my DD1 stopped making botty noises and progressed onto full blown farts. DD2 has always farted. Neither has ever dropped a button.

The whole family farts and my mother thinks I'm no lady. She's right.

eatyourveg · 30/10/2011 20:24

I remember back in the 80s going round to a friends house for lunch and she used the word fart and her mother smacked her there and then right in front of me. We were about 17 at the time.

We use BB here or its full name bottom burp. That is after all what it is so why have a different word.

As a child it was always a verb "to blow off"

MerryMarigold · 30/10/2011 20:25

Dropping a button Grin. Love it. May even use that one, it's too funny.

DorcasBouvier · 30/10/2011 20:26

Fart and guff have always been perfectly acceptable in our house. I can't stand trump and pump.

LucaBrasi · 30/10/2011 20:31

We use 'snazzle'. My kids are now aware of the term 'fart' but continue to use 'snazzle'. Fart really is a bit crude. It's the same as poo etc. In Scotland the common term is 'jobby' but would you really want your child announcing 'I need a jobby!' in a supermarket etc?

ohanotherone · 30/10/2011 20:34

What about 'flabby woof woofs'???

morethemerrier · 30/10/2011 20:35

We 'Boff' in our house! Grin

In fact my 12 year old DS is fondly known as 'Boff Boy!'

MogTheForgetfulCat · 30/10/2011 20:36

My parents used jobby! It always used to make me feel a bit ick, for some reason - am quite uptight, though Grin.

MogTheForgetfulCat · 30/10/2011 20:38

Have remembered another one - at school, we used 'tish' for poo. Was meant to be 'shit' backwards - but, um, isn't. We were obviously a bit thick. Although quaite refained.

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