To have still not come up with a suitable name for ladybits after 8 years???

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I am totally U. Not only unreasonable but indesicive and repressed as hell.

Since DD came along 8 years ago have never called bits anything at all, just struggled to find a moniker that doesn't make me cringe or blush. DD isn't too scarred but DS 2.5 has recently become quite aware of his 'waddi' ( he named it so ) and obv the boys have this girls have that convo has come up.

What on earth do I call it?????

Not a suggestion for little girls but I had a friend who called it a furry purse!

Dd 6mths has been going in the bath with ds 2.1 for a while now but he's yet to ask. I have asked everyone I know what they use as I am dreading the question and being so on the spot I call it something ridiculous and I'll never be able to take it back once it's done. Ds never forgets anything. It's a tightrope!!

I always used flower but dh hates it.

I am glad this question has been raised.

With my boys they have a penis...with my DD (just 3) what to call it, has recently cropped up in my home too.

I had been using 'bits'...

When I was getting out of my Grandmother's car (back in 87) (so you can imagine the short tight lycra mess), she exclaimed " Feminine, your skirt is so short I can see your VULVA!"

so ...that won't work for me.

I'm going to look at suggestions and ponder

My and my brothers' genitalia were uniformly called 'dilly' when I was small. Not so keen now I'm an adult, but it did make for amusing moments when Mum sang us 'Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, when I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen'.

Anyway, if a Mini and a vulva Volvo both work as fanjo names, there must be lots of other car names that could double up. Personally I struggle to look a Skoda Fabia in the eye

My sister and her daughter say Ginie or Gina . As in a shortened version of Vagina. I think that is really nice and a good way of getting a child used to a word some adults find uncomfortable to say.

My mother used to say "down below", as in "this flannel is for washing down below".

More formally, she might say "private parts". I don't think she ever said just "privates", that would have been somehow rather vulgar ...

... (lightbulb moment) that must be why I don't care for the word vulva! It reminds me of vulgar! :o

Feminine Did you not have any knickers on? I think most people would have said "I can see your knickers/panties/whatever"

percy I had knickers on...probably a G-string though.

My Grandmother was unusual

Ah :o

We call it a LaLa here but that was what my 3 DSs came up with and I'm fine with it.

Personally I love Stench Trench.

We used the terms vagina and penis, as we wanted them to be just words, not something to be embarrassed about. We also went along with the words the kids used themselves and so we used 'little bit' and 'willie'

Just out of interest. Did anyone ever watch the documentary about the 'c' word? It was basically saying it is the only non sexist word that describes the whole area. Vagina is a Latin name for sword sheath!

I still prefer fanjo

I am a bit about all the outrage at not calling it by its "anatomical term". I don't call my bum my rectum or my gluteus maximus or whatever other latin term I could slap on it, and that's partially because, like a vulva/vagina/female pudendum, I rarely need to be that specific about the precise location I am imagining when I say someone is a pain in my bum.

I mean, you could go the whole hog and teach your little girl about their labia majora, mons pubis, labia minora, clitoris, bulb of vestibule, vulval vestibule, greater and lesser vestibular glands, and the opening of the vagina but I don't know what at least three of those things are and it's never prevented me from explaining a gynaecological problem to a doctor or working out how to have sex or birth a baby. So how important is it? Surely you just want a friendly happy term for genitals that you use in the context of asking your little girl to wipe from back to front and telling them it's a private place? A rose by any other name...? There are plenty of "twee" names for male genitals too... as there probably are twee names for snow in the Eskimo language.

I like peach. I like the fact that a little girl named it a peach out of preference.

Fanny was always the equivalent of willy when I was at primary school. Someone pointed out that vagina instead of vulva narked her in the same way as rectum for bum or urethra for penis. It made me thunk that I wouldn't be so pedantic as to refer to my anus or rectum in public, and I have the same problem with vulva. It's not prudishness to use a nickname; it's the desire not to sound really dull.

We used 'gina' long i as in China not as in Gina[Ford]

I agree - those who wish to use the anatomical terms may feel free to do so. I don't mind.
Not sure why they feel the need to insist that the rest of us follow suit though.

I don't veto 'vagina' because I'm teaching my daughter to be ashamed of her body ffs, and don't appreciate being told that I am. How would they know?

I happen to think it's nice to have a sweet, endearing name for a child to use instead. So what?

Foofoo makes me laugh because I spend quite a bit of time in West Africa where it's practically the staple food. So I've eaten plenty of foofoo and I didn't even know I was that way inclined

It has to pass the MIL test. Happy to call son's penis a penis (detest willy). But I just can't bring myself to say vulva in front of MIL.

curiosity "Vagina is a Latin name for sword sheath!"

That's so crazy. In Hebrew, the word for vagina also means a kind of sheath or cover. I'd always vaguely wondered about the meaning (with the general worrry that you have when you speak in another language that you may have the meaning completely wrong and be saying something totally ridiculous) and very surprised at the simililarity with Latin as Hebrew obviously doesn't have latin roots.

I am stunned by this thread.
Front Bottom?? Really?
If the nickname for a boy's penis is usually a Willy, then why isn't the nickname for a girls vulva a Fanny?
My son knows that his is a penis, but we call it a willy, and he probably doesn't remember me telling him that mine is a vulva, but he knows girls/women have a Fanny.
It's not that hard, is it? And how come nobody stresses about what to tell boys they have?
Fairy. Dear Jesus.

Are some of the more twee terms not firmly tongue in cheek though? I think so.

Absolutely nothing wrong with front bottom

Can't stand all that Fanny, Foufou, Milly, Molly, Mandy tut!

the word fanny makes my teeth itch. i am sure whatever our dd's call theirs, they will get thru knowing a helluva lot more than my generation did.

I have two girls, 12 years apart (and two boys too) and they have different names for their private parts... My eldest's was called her tuppence by MIL and much to my chagrin it stuck and my 3yr old has a hoolihan. Her choice\word after being told it was a vagina when she asked. Both boys have willy's.

I much prefer hoolihan to tuppence which I find quite yucky! She has since adopted her younger sisters terminology to avoid confusion

Up here in Scotland 'fanny' is a swear word. Or almost, anyway.

But Fanny is just the equivalent of Willy.
At school it was always willy and fanny, and it probably still is.
Everybody says Willy, or knows what that is, but we seem to tie ourselves in knots thinking up euphemisms for female genitalia.
Why is this?

Front bottom particularly grates on me because it is just not a bottom at the front, is it? Thats like saying that it performs the same function as a bottom, or it is somehow interchangeable.

But Fanny is just the equivalent of Willy.At school it was always willy and fanny, and it probably still is.

In your neck of the woods perhaps. Not here though. Up here 'fanny' is a derogatory term and an insult.

"Shut it ya fanny!"