To ask you for a name for daughter's bits?

[lucamom]

Apologies in advance if this is inappropriate.

My two boys (6 & 4) are mildly obsessed with the fact that baby sister (1) doesn't have a dinkle. We deal with the anatomy explanations quite well I think until it comes time to 'name' her bits (appropriate to their age, but avoiding twee names like foo-foo/Twinkie etc)

I hate the 'v' word (rubbish I know-sister is a midwife who believes in using medical terms for everything!), and I think as a kid we used fanny, which I also hate.

So tell me, what do you/your daughter's call yours? Inspiration needed please.

Sorry if this is weird!

I have never used the term 'meat and two veg' as I consider it bloody awful.

Again, please do tell me how I am being a hypocrite as I really can't see it. But I am eager to learn.

It is 'sad' if people can't use certain words with their doctor. I don't much like the words 'moist' or 'gusset' but if it was important that somebody understood the moistness of my gusset at a particular time, I wouldn't hesitate to use the words best suited to be understood.

Agree with Oxfordbags - I guess 'fanny' is the closest thing we have to 'willy' BUT it means something completely different to someone from the USA.

However I would be much more embarrassed going to my doctor and saying 'fanny' rather than vagina/vulva.

Yes, each to their own but all I think most people are saying is don't deprive your daughters of knowledge of the 'proper' words by drowning them in mimsy and foo foos.

actually sorry spero it was stuntgirl that said that.

Having said that not liking the word gusset is bizarre! Its a part of knickers, tights.....I feel 'sad' for you

I am grateful for your pity. It will help me get through the long, lonely days avoiding the word 'gusset'. Into which I put my vulva.

I feel more sad for people who don't know the difference between 'their' and 'there'.

I have taught my DDs from a very young age what the true and accurate words are for their genitalia...but they prefer to use fanny..fan-fan and for a boy it's his bulls-eye !

I went to see an (American) band this week and had them sign my vinyl after the gig. The guitarist, for some unknown reason, wrote "I

lmao And here goes the spelling/grammar bee. Soooooo predictable of you oxford!

Too soon to suggest 'Thatcher'?

I'd rather be predictable than mimsy and scared to call my vulva a vulva!

Tethersend, I think I love you! But... Wouldn't calling it a Thatcher teach girls to hate their genitals?

I don't think anybody is scared though...why do you all ways make sweeping outlandish accusations if you don't agree with people and then back read through posts to check spelling and grammar? I think you need to lighten up....

I definitely wasn't brought up to hate my vulva just because it wasn't ground in to me that I must be atomically correct at all times from being new born...I love my vulva! (its actually very pretty!) yawn yet another goady oxfordbags-ism.

Exactly seriouscake who cares what you call your genitals. I agree it's silly there is no universal prase for vilva lie teir is penis

Monty My nan used to call it 'Mary' as well! It was fine until I was about 8 and a lady called Mary who had very wiry, messy brown hair moved in next door. I'm giggling even thinking about it now and I could never look at Mary (next door Mary not my fanny) without thinking 'you look like a fanny' over and over in my head.

I am going to call my Lady Parts 'Thatchers' Unmentionables' as I feel I have now covered all bases.

my D calls her bits la la.

I am very much looking forward to my next cervical smear test.

I would just use girl's bits or girlie bits and would avoid flower or fairy!!

I like thatchers unmentionables I shall call them that . Just for te record I do book a cervical smear with the receptionist not a Fanjo or fru fru smear

I am SO booking a fru fru smear.

Lets see if we can get 'Thatcher's Unmentionables' into general usage. I am starting now.

My sister, who gives parenting classes, says that it is important that children are given the proper words for parts of their bodies - apparently if they do paedophiles are more likely to avoid them. Sorry if this information has been posted before, but I have only read the first couple of pages plus this page.

Thatcher's Unmentionables HAS to become the slang name! What more fitting tribute could there be for such a massive cu... You get my drift

I've got my Thatcher's Unmentionables smear on Thursday. Do you dare me to book in using that?

DO IT!!!

My gusset has ridden right up my TMs reading this thread

Penis and Crotch here. I would be very embarrassed if my Dd or Ds said Vulva or Vagina in front of my 80yr old parents and ILs . In front of anyone else Id be fine her saying it, but for the moment its crotch which is correct and not cutsie.