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.

squoosh actually I think your username is an excellent word for it!

It is interesting how the word has different connotations for different people though.To me 'fart' sounds coarse and harsh.

YABU.

Its fart.

Its most definitely a fart in our house although my mum and sisters always tell them they musn't use the word because it is rude.

My mum calls it 'breaking wind' and is very serious about it. Though she did admit that as a child six family members were saying the Rosary (anglo-indian/irish catholic family) and the whole prayer meeting decended into chaos when her strict grandma got a fit of the giggles because someone farted broke wind loudly

We say fart or trump in this house. DH says 'did you hear that woodpecker?' after a loud one. DMIL calls it 'letting off'. The DDs just giggle.

We use "bottom burp" in our house

we called it a 'blastoff' when we were little. As in 'did you just blastoff?'

We use numerous terms

Coughing in your pants
Speak up Mrs brown, you're through
OOps mice (Gran used to say this when she farted, perhaps balming the noise on mice but has stuck with us!)
Popped (but only me asking 'who popped?') My dc would all say 'yuck who farted' or 'who stinks?'
'Has something died?'

In our house a fart is just a fart. My ds has inherited his fathers rank ass and is particularly foul. This means the topic comes up often in our house.

Twee words like 'fluffed, bottom burps, etc make me go red, more so than 'FART'!

Have particularly enjoyed this thread! But the best bit was who ever said 'christ on a bike' in their astonishment!!! Love it!!!

We say pop pop or guff, or fart or windy guffets or anything really. Latest is 'who brewed one and set it free?'
farts are funny, everyone does them, even the queen.

DS named them poo bups. Burps became bups so poo bups was obviously a logical progression for him.

Oh dear I think pick your battles, fart isn't really that trump sounds worse/ridiculous.

I laughed when I read the title! See how grown up I am? :) My daughter says "pull my finger" so you can see how it goes in our house. But she did promise not to do it at school.

My son calls them cabbagey love puffs. I have absolutely no problem with the word fart.

Personally I think this is a very minor issue as parenting goes, and you're over thinking it.

AllYours Babooshka, I have just read back on the thread I am ROARING at you r Uncle! Hilarious! I am in tears... :)

A lovely big ripper is often accompanied by "Speak up caller, you're through".
I was never allowed to say fart, my mum tried to encourage me to say 'pump', how feeble and bleugh is pump?!

We used to call them poofies.
My boys either just say fart or they say "Whoops I stepped on a frog".

Nay I humbly suggest buying a copy of Roger's profanasorous produced by the good people at Viz? It contains many delightful euphemisms for what my mother absurdly tried to get me to call 's rumbling bottom' as a child.

I don't like the word fart, or any of the others if I'm honest. Even worse are people who just let one off without thinking about it. I've taught my kids to leave the room and hopefully get to the bathroom before doing so (even taught a fellow staff member to do the same - to the great relief of her husband , as she now does so at hme as well!). If I have to call it anything, it's breaking wind.

I still have issues saying that word. I do have a tendancy to come over a bit Emily Howard about discussing bodily functions!

Surely pumping = shagging?

Arf at barking wall spider :-)

Some of these are hilarious, 'rumbling bottom', 'bottom burps', 'windy pops'. A lot of very delicate people!

If I heard someone say these in real life I would laugh so hard I'd fart.

And yes pumping is definitely shagging.

shortof I'd forgotten we used to say Blastoff as kids - happy memories.

Rutting is shagging is it not?