to not want my child to say 'fart'?

[Chocolocolate]

or am I a prude?

I was never allowed to use this word as a child and used 'trump' instead.

I still don't like the word and would prefer my DH not to say it around my little dd as I don't want her to pick it up. DH thinks I'm silly.

My nephew used to call them botbots. He even made up a song about them. He doesn't say it any more but we do, and I suspect that's what DD will end up calling them!

I had no idea some people found the word fart offensive. MN is a real education.

I hate the word trump as well. It's up there with people using "fruity" to describe something a bit sexy. Blurgh. Though maybe I'm not one to advise as my DD (23 months) said shit the other day terrible London traffic making me sweary

Ooh Queenof I hate fruity too!

Also when it's applied to camp old men - 'he's s bit of an old fruit'. Far more cringeworthy than trump or fart!

whoknowswherethetimegoes .. I think we might have been reared by the same people (sis .. Is that you??)

OP .. My take is YABU because being raised in a home where we children policed everything we said to avoid a bollocking from Parents, means that even now as an adult I police what I say around them. Doesn't create a natural, easy relationship.

There's no great words for it really. People boff round here.

A fruity old fruit? Barf.

I'm feeling rather liberated now I know it's ok to say fart openly outside of the confines of our house (and let's face it, farting is generally best done out of the confines of anything)

Can I use it at DS's preschool meeting next week? "DS likes playing outdoors, reading books about the solar system and farting loudly when friends pull his finger". How about in restaurants? "Could you ask the chef whether it is cooked with butter, it does make me fart rather a lot?"

It's all very exciting.

Procrastinate, it could work. I see long evenings curled up on the sofa together eating beans on toast, boiled cabbage and broccoli.

im 41 & still dont say fart in front of my Mum

Yes neverquitesure, Go forth now and spread the word that is fart.

Do it loud and proud.

'Emmielu :Lol my mum used to call them love puffs.'

WTF? Love puffs are FANNY FARTS!!

I am almost certain that anyone who won't say fart would also never say fanny! :D

I often say "better an empty house than a bad tenant" after a nice fart.

Ted - no, I haven't any sisters. It's weird with my parents, they weren't particularly strict with most things and I wouldn't say they are particularly posh or prudish (Mum sometimes gives me far too much information about her bowel movements) but the language thing was a bit extreme. I really wish they had just let us say wee, poo and fart like everyone else.

More Tea Vicar? always has me in stitches.

If anyone farted at my nan and grandads house my grandad would always say in a loud voice 'come out brown'!. Vile......

Perhaps I should wear this to help me in my ministry?

Catsmomma: that's brought back happy memories, my grandad used to day 'better an empty house than a bad tenant' I've never heard anyone else say it

*say, not day

I want that T-shirt never

Your kids will have the piss ripped out of them at school if they say "windy bottom", believe me, no matter how much the word fart may offend you.

You know that song, Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude! Pee, Po, Belly, Bum, Drawers! I still can't use any of those words except Drawers, which no longer means knickers.

YANBU

More than the child using it- i found really incongorus when gran said - she farted alot - talking about my sweet 3 year old.
My mother would say she had wind.....

also have friend who says her kids ( toddlers) shit and piss....again find the langauge and the sweet chubby children odd....an old stinky man ....farts...a sweet little girl - has wind.....little babies and toddlers have poops and pee pee - they dont ....shit and piss......

YANBU. I hate this word around kids. If you wouldn't say it in the office, don't use it around your kids. That's my motto.
Whizzpops for us... good old BFG.

Whizzpops sounds very twee.

Nut if for some reason I had to talk about farts in the office, I would say fart.I just probably wouldn't!

Our office is where we all go to say the things we can't in front of the DCs. Lavatorial humour rules!