To not want my 2 year old to say 'fart'

[somuchforanindiansummer]

DS is 2, and picking up new words all the time - a recent one being 'fart', courtesy of DP. We generally have a 'no swearing in front of DS' rule, but according to DP fart doesn't count. I get that not everyone sees it as that bad a word, but it still doesn't seem right for a toddler to be saying it. AIBU?

HoneyDragon funny.

Are you offended by any of my other words OP? Can you suggest alternatives?

No, sorry Ken, we use all of those. I do feel a bit on-the-edge for saying 'snot' to him though

Anyways, I just looked up fart in my OED & it is referred to as 'taboo'

I thought fart was ok. My mother in law uses "blowing off" which at first I didn't understand and now think sounds slightly vulgar. imagine the scene

MIL:"he's blowing off"
Lego: Eh?
MIL: he is blowing off
Lego: what?
MIL: HE IS BLOWING OFF HE MIGHT NEED THE toliet.
Lego: oh you mean he farted. DS1 go to the loo!
MIL: gasp

Alittle later after the offender is in bed
MIL: Lego, that word isn't appropriate
Lego: which word?
MIL: that word
Lego: eh?
MIL: the one you used instead of "blowing off"
Lego: oh you mean fart?
MIL: (it's a triple string)
Lego: to be honest blowing off sounds like some sort of deviant sexual act to me...
MIL: gasp
Lego pours her self another glass of and gets on with watching e4(another thing that is unacceptable)

But ds1 school assures me fart is a rude word and ds1 lost five minutes of free time for using it. I felt a bit bad about that.

I now stick to "breaking wind", which whilst irritating isn't horrifically twee.

Pee Po Belly Bum Drawers and stocking tops and legalodes and ......RUDIES!!!
This was our very daring chant when I was about 10. I grew up saying pump for fart and was horrified to hear that plimsolls were called pumps. Trumps are for card games,
Fluff is soft fibres a guff is a loud laugh to blow off is to tell someone off whereas a fart is just a fart....the everyday words apply as time goes by

generally? Yes. However not unreasonable to teach them that some things are not appropriate in certain contexts.

Why is there such a need to use the word anyway. I think other people basically blowing shit into the air is grim.

You actually don't have to do a noticeable fart same as you don't need to do a noticeable burp

YABU - a fart is a fart is a fart. That's what it is!

We are a but stuck with vulva though, there doesn't seem to be a good word for that

Same here! When my DD asked what it was called I panicked and said vagina, now she goes around telling me that she has/I have a 'gina' but I really couldn't think of a less medical word that wasn't rude!

Do children say fart at school as I thought it was a word they are not allowed to say?

'Blowing off'??!! That is the funniest and at the same time most disturbing thing I have heard today!

'Pump' is just wrong and disgusting.

I find it quite funny that members of a culture that use the word 'toilet' for the bathroom (and teach their children the word toilet for the bathroom) have issues with the word 'fart' being used by children.

I, however, cannot abide using the word 'toilet' in that context as it conjures up a gruesome visual image of what goes in it... It's North American euphemisms all the way for me!

Little HD is a Fanjo girl.

I try not think about her preschool raising eyebrows when she asks for "paper to dab my Fanjo please!" When she's had a wee.

Anyone for hot chocolate?

Yanbu. I don't allow it...we say pump. If we must describe them at all.

DS is 21mo. I'm now tempted to teach him to say 'colonic gas expulsion' or 'anal air waves'.

Pump is truly terrible. Sounds so inappropriately sexual.

Anal waves

Not only were we not allowed to use any word for farting at home - not even twee ones - we were never even allowed to acknowledge that such a thing as farting existed. ( God knows what my parents did if they had wind - maybe ran out into the garden or something.)

It meant that my brother and I thought that we were freaks. We honestly thought that we were the only people in the whole world who farted. We only realised when we were discussing our parents' foibles later on.

My mother, in particular, is very odd about bodily functions and we were taught all manner of twee euphemisms which made us look very foolish once we started school.

I have been much more down to earth with my own dcs as a result. I really cannot tolerate tweeness these days.

Twee things like pump are worse than fart as far as I'm concerned. I suppose in really polite company I might say windy.

Now we have a dog none of us fart, it's always her

When I was little I wasn't allowed to say fart. We called it a fluff. My 2 and a half year old says fart. I blame my hubby although to be honest, I wouldn't call it swearing. I was sat in our local council, waiting room was full, everyone was quiet. Dd loudly and proudly exclaims "I Farted!". Everyone thought it was hysterical and I died a little bit.

I love Walter the Farting Dog

we have that book too missbeehiving Its great fun

We like Farley Farts in this house

I don't like my dds using the word fart either. If it has to be said they use the word pop. (They are only tiny) my parents would call it wind.