to not want my child to say 'fart'?

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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.

Is pop twee then? I grew up saying fart but don't like to hear my ds say it for some reason.

Bloody hell, I said worse than fart when I worked in an office!!

I didn't want my kids to say fart, but DS1 is 13 now and that's all flown out the window. I'm just grateful that is the only f-word I've ever heard any of my 5 say!

My mum used to call them "pops" or "traf" (fart backwards!!) When DS1 was younger I just called it a noisy bottom.

Fart is a great word, especially when your 4 year old is walking down the road saying repeatedly in a sing song voice!

We call it a whiffie. I really don't mind fart for good old fashioned beano humor value though. The word fart is not a swear word! It's just like saying poo or wee really - so more a factual word then anything. Farting always makes my family laugh. We have such a toilet sense of humor and we love it.

We all like to pretend someone else did the deadly deed in our house - my son recently even claimed a certain noise was a barking wall spider and not him

"Fart" was considered a rude word at home when I was a child. We used "rude-y", as in "rude" - so you'd say "I just heard someone do a rudey!" Even our childhood TV icons Zig and Zag said rudey!

DH and I always say "fart" now, as do my brother and sister at home, and I think we'd all find it weird to revert to saying rudey... it just doesn't sound right anymore! My mum still hates it, but fart has lost its sweariness and become just the name for the action now.

DD didn't say it till she was about 7 because I didn't like it. My brother taught her to say "eggy puff puff" instead...

All previously mentioned are better than DHs attempt at humour. He calls his "the hiss of the poothon"
nice huh?

It was a taboo word in our house growing up too. My dad would refer to them as "trouser coughs" which I quite enjoy now and always makes me

I think you are being a little precious.

I had never Hurd the word trump until mumset and I think it's a rather ridiculous word

I hate the word fart. In fact, I think that this is the first time I've ever even typed it and now I'm cringing! It's an ugly word.

Never in my life has my mother referred to or acknowledged any type of breaking wind or whatever else you'd like to call it so I've always been a bit anal about referring to it too. I was raised to believe that you never commented on it, whether you were the culprit or not, but that the polite way to behave was to act as if nothing had happened. The same as burping. You don't say "excuse me" you say nothing.

My DDs have a good one, picked up from school, they say "he did a kaboom from his bottom"

Back to the word in question, it's not such a crime is it, really. My DDs didn't start using it until this year when their father slipped up whilst out in public, he's usually so prim and proper, I don't know what happened to him that day

I have a 3YO and a 21 month old and haven't yet given them a word for it, other than 'pardon me' followed by paroxysms of giggles.

I will keep them in the dark for as long as I can.

"If you wouldn't say it in the office, don't use it around your kids. That's my motto."

Well, I wouldn't sing songs from the Night Garden or talk about pokemon in the office so that motto is fairly crap really isn't it? :o

Your counter example doesn't fit the motto though.

She says: if not in office, then not with DCs.

Your example is: if with DCs, then yes in office too.

I really don't see those as following the same pattern. And, assuming you're not shagging a colleague, the first rule seems pretty good. The second wouldn't have worked for me at all - the metaphorical arse-wiping was bad enough; I dread to think what it would be like to add it literally.

I understand that you dislike the word 'fart'. Fair enough. The word 'trump' frankly makes me feel a bit sick, and especially bad if it was a child saying it. YANBU for not liking a word. YABVU for trying to make your DC use a worse one!

My daugheter calls them pops. I have no idea where she got this from. I use to call them bumps when I was little

we call it a 'pip' in our house!

I'd never heard of trump until mumsnet either. Its just too twee for words. Why is 'fart' worse than the alternatives anyway?

"Your counter example doesn't fit the motto though.

She says: if not in office, then not with DCs."

She said "If you wouldn't say it in the office, don't use it around your kids." I wouldn't sing In the Night Garden songs in the office thus I shouldn't sing them to the children. It fits perfectly. It's a crap motto. My example is not at all what you said.

Nelly the Elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump
Trump
Trump

A fart is called a fart. A trump is a trumpeting noise.

YABU

DH calls them "internal pressure readjustments" - how's that for a euphemism?

Fart is the least offensive word in the world, it's so soft and flubbery around the edges, much like a fart I suppose

Trump is horrible,

Although what's really horrible is walking into someone else's fart on the street. Strolling along happily and then suddenly you're enveloped in the warm fug of a stranger's bum gas. Ick.

I always said "trump" growing up but now say fart and my kids say fart. Everyone knows what a fart is, but some people are confused by "trump" as it's regional.

But at school they have to say "blow off" or something, and get told "no toilet talk" if they say "fart".

Although "Trump" does pleasantly remind me of Mrs Merton interviewing Daniel O' Donnell, when she asked him if he ever "trumped" and he didn't know what it meant.

Also it helps me to laugh (even more) at Donald Trump.

trump is ridicculous - a fart's a fart
but this is your life and your child so it's what you think that matters