To wonder why nursery can't say 'poo'?

[BobbysBeardOfWonder]

They say 'bowel movement', which is of course a more technically correct name, but come on, just say poo! We're talking about small kids here, not grown-ups unlike me

[Bonsoir]

Shit and piss are slang and rude; poo and wee are the vernacular and polite in intimate circles or if you are very young or interacting with the very young.

[breatheslowly]

I think nurseries use another word as children often seem to rather like the word "poo" and if they hear it at handover they just repeat it over and over or maybe that is just my DD. Our nursery says BM, but I assume they ask her if she has done a poo. I'm now curious and will have to ask them.

[MissBeehivingUnderTheMistletoe]

Sounds a bit anally retentive to me.

[hopeful92]

For goodness sake, this PC bollocks does my head in. Poo is poo. We are not in America. Americans say poop. A bowel movement is misleading - your bowel does not move in the slightest. Defecating is just plain ridiculous when talking to a 3 year old. When talking to or about a child it is perfectly acceptable to say poo! I still say poo now! I wouldn't say to my boyfrien "you might wanna spray in there I have just had a bowel movement!" Ha! Another American term which I have heard English nurseries use is "go potty". No - just no!! All this politically correct ridiculousness winds me up.

And as for a tail for a penis.. Just don't get me started.

[Bonsoir]

Oh "go potty" is madness. In English English, "to go potty" = "to go mad".

[TheEarlOfDoncaster1963]

I had a friend from Derbyshire who used to say 'tail' instead of willy/knob. I assumed it was a northern thing.

[PandaNot]

I think tail for penis might well be a northern thing. Certainly it's the most common expression for it in the north east.

[Eskino]

The pursed lip brigade who I occasionally have to work with would balk even at "bowel movement".

They like to say, "Bee-Emm" in hushed tones.

[HeadfirstForHalos]

The doctor in the NHS ad for bowel cancer awareness says poo.

[porridgewithalmondmilk]

Stools?

[UnderwaterBasketWeaving]

I have 30 stools in my lab!

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

Is your child going to my child's nursery, OP?

[N0tinmylife]

When DS was in pre school they used to call dog poo, doggy do, there was always a lot of it on the pavement that needed avoiding when they were out for a walk. It used to drive me up the wall!

[MsPickle]

Undercover Boss USA (I only watch the finest daytime tv when breastfeeding ) I was introduced to an "AFR" in a water slide complex.

I was baffled until they revealed it was an "accidental faecal release". Also known as a poo in the pool.

Nursery potty training notes of the future?

[starfishmummy]

Surely "bowel movement" is the actual "doing", so moving your bowels is the physical act of having a shit. The product of this is shit/poo/crap etc - although I have often heard medical professionals refer to it as a "stool".

[Clawdy]

When I started teaching years ago,quite a few children called it "doo-doo". When I had first ds,my next-door neighbour said she hated the word "poo" and her two toddlers were taught to say they'd "done a mo" (short for motion)!!

[confusteling]

My family have always said it's perfectly acceptable to say "shit" as long as you use it in the right context. My 80+ year old gt gt aunt refers to it that way. Although generally they use it more in the context of animals - I don't think my gt gt aunt has ever discussed using the loo with me!

My GP quite happily uses the term "shite" as opposed to poo or anything.

I think it might be a Scottish thing!

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

Likewise, my grandmother (who was quite formal and the epitome of decorum) would say "the dog's shat all over the floor". I think it might be a country thing, as she grew up on a farm.

[thegreylady]

My dh tells me his dc [my steps] were brought up to say "turdy"!!!!!

[insancerre]

I have worked in many nurseries and most of them write s for soiled for a poo in diaries etc but use poo when talking
one nursery used to write 'dirty' for a poo which I found very odd- it's not dirty to have a poo is it?
where I am now they write p for poo on the chart but I have found myself writing s for soiled as I have been conditioned to do it that way

[insancerre]

oh and tail for penis is a north east thing isn't it?

[milkwagon]

Oh for goodness sake!

How about 'dump'? 'My DD had a dump', 'mummy, I need to have a dump', no?

[BobbysBeardOfWonder]

at 'dump'

[IneedAsockamnesty]

Now all we really need is for one of the children to say in that lovely loud clear voice they use.....

"Fuck sake its shit not a fucking BM you cunt"

I know it of course wouldn't be funny but still ok I admit it as long as it wasn't my child it would be funny

[Kirk1]

I don't think "tail" for penis is exclusively north west, it's what my Father used, and he's born, bred and likely to die Bristolian. I tend to say poo, and willy although I'm now very tempted to introduce "peanut and tentacles" to the family