To tell DS not to say 'sexy'?

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He put on my work boots earlier.

Nothwithstanding the 'mum' ness of said ankle boots, he pranced about saying 'I'm a sexy lady'.

Catsbum-mouth from me, and I told him that 'sexy' is not a word for children and I will tell him off if he says it again.

It's a horrible word for children. I explained what it meant -that was tricky, he's 5, and told him that the word is for grown ups and I don't want to hear him say it.

Gak.

AIBU?

He is 5, no doubt he will also hear it at school too.. and it isnt swearing either.

If it were my 5yo I would have just laughed.

Not BU. I hate that.

YANBU. I would tell my 7 yr old DS that it was inappropriate - a word he is getting used to hearing while trying to squish my boobs every opportunity he gets!

Another of those words that is in the playground.

Why would you explain what it meant to a 5 year old? You could have just said it is only a word for grown ups!

He got it from school. There are the mums who describe toddlers as sexy in the playground 'sickface'

It really wouldn't bother me. My kids have done daft things like that and used the word sexy when messing about at home. Its not a word that I would get hung up about.

I explain everything to him madamecupcake. I just find the right pitch and get in there with the explaination. How else is he going to learn what things mean? From the kids at school?

He will hear it at school, but that's a red herring. Just because he hears a word in the playground does not mean he has to use it at home.

If you don't think it's appropriate he will learn not to say it at home out of respect.

My SIL refers to her DD as 'sexybum'. Ick. YANBU!

you wait till you get to the other stuff

He's hench

He's got swag

She's butters

Phoooar ream

He's a melt

I'm well sick (are you well or sick, you can't be both)

Shakepeare would roll in his grave.

Can you translate those jumping?

hench - muscular, over muscled, dont mess with him coz he's hard

Swag - swagger (not a burglar with a swag bag!) but a sort of ummm gay swagger

Butters - ugly - well nice body, not particularly aesthetically pleasing face

Ream - good looking male - mind you I think this might have a double meaning as in a hard and fast shag

Melt - well I'm not sure really, "man up" I think as in 'come on, you melt, hit me'

Yanbu gross

Jumping, round here if someone is hench, they are a Don; swag is ratez (pn rates - I think adding the pn makes me very middle aged) and ream is unisex

Just because he hears a word in the playground does not mean he has to use it at home.

That sums up my view too. YANBU

Yuck not a nice word to hear from a 5 year old. You're allowed to decide what your child can & can't say in your home.

Telling him off could make him say it even more just to annoy you...

So embarrass him out of saying it instead.... much more effective!!

My 3 year old heard the word 'fuck' at the football once but I didn't really think at 3 he needed a full explanation of the word so I told him he shouldn't say it and he doesn't.

Quite Madame applauds common sense

Ha! The vast majority of 'fucks' are expletives. If DS asked what that meant I think a 'it's a bad word that some grown ups say when they get cross' would do :)

I try to use these things as an opportunity to drip feed 'sex-ed' into them. I'd rather he start to understand things and what is appropriate and what isn't a little bit at a time rather than have to do a big 'sit down' talk later on.

I like to think I am open-minded which is why I think I was a bit shocked at my strong feelings about the word.

don came out yesterday, made me bear happs it did!

It's a no no in our house too along with "oh my Goooodddd!!!" It's harder to police as my eldest 2 are 7 and 9 and both into music. It's only when you hear your 9 year old singing about booty calls that you start to realise quite how much has changed since you were little!

Yanbu. He's not sexy and no child has any business aping "sexiness" either.

People will say "oh hes only playing" and of course he is...but sex is nothing to do with children.

Jumping - why would he do that? He was making stuff up all the time that probably sounded pretty ridiculous at the time.

To the OP YANBU - it's not a nice phrase to hear from a child so young, though I would have probably just said it was "inappropriate" like Alliwant.

Mr Shakespeare would definitely have rolled in his grave at that sentence of mine, too many "times".

Curses.