To say 'bum bum'

[TinkerTailorSerialNameChanger]

To 18 month old DS
As in 'I'm going to bite your bum bum', 'lets change your bum bum' etc
Apparently it is not good as DS now says it too and if he does it at school his teacher will mark him out as one of the 'naughty children' (says MIL, the obvious expert in these matters)

Yes it's nonsense and I could easily say bottom, it's just something I've always said to him.

[mineof4]

no way changing it!!
It is bum and everyone prefers
it here friends and all

[HarderToKidnap]

Don't say bum, we say tuches, but otherwise I'm terrible for this. Nappy is "nip nap" and then we have armies, leggies, toesies, schmackle, horsies, doggies or dig dogs, pusscats, pip pips, sleepies or schluffs, billy bon bons, blankies, yoggies.... The list is endless! poor DS will end up speaking some bastardised pidgin English. Although my mum was the same and I can still have entire conversations with her that no one else would understand.

[mineof4]

I never like the word bottom growing up.
I seen it as odd! So we all say bum here
because to me it is like the word bucks instead of dollars
because we dont miss use the word and prefer it the kids listens more when saying bum and know what we are saying to them.
We will not allow swearing here at all and feel that when saying it in the correct way it is not a rude word.
The kids got top marks for behavior and was said to be very polite

[Mike101]

We say bum there is nothing wrong with it. I said to DS sit down
he did not so I said sit on your bum please and he did!!
We do not swear and will not let them. they know if they did
swear they will be in a lot of trouble so they dont
it is the only word that i feel is not a swear word
and will let them use it in the wright way

[Littleen]

Don't see the issue, think it's just your mil trying to be picky.

[cathpip]

We say botty or bottom in our house, I just don't like hearing a two year old saying bum. My mil says bum and it does grate but there are bigger battles, each to their own :)

[WhereIsMyHat]

We have a song when I need to change my your tests nappy that goes 'bum, bum, wipe
Bum, bum wipe'
to a made up tune.

So I think YADNBU. We're definitely not a 'bottom' household, not proper enough for that.

[JohnCusacksWife]

Coffee, I agree. Don't like to hear children saying bum either. It just sounds wrong.

[SooticaTheWitchesCat]

I say bum and bum bum, I don't think it is rude. My DD2's first word was bum, she used to say it really loudly while we were out

[SomethingkindaOod]

I say 'do your bum' for nappy change, God knows why! I don't like doubling up words like that personally, it goes in the same category as moo cow and baa lamb for me, cute when they're small then when they get older they're told it's babyish and have to change the way they've always said it. Never ever heard it be used as a rude word though, when I worked in a private nursery we always called them bums!

[Seff]

Not "bum bum", but we've always used bum. Used the phrase "bum up" a lot during nappy changes!! And a common one for our climber: "bums on seats, feet on the floor!"

But since starting pre school she has started using "bottom", which is something we don't use, so it seems it's an issue there.

Any teacher who would judge a child so completely based on their usage of one word is somebody I wouldn't want teaching my child anyway! I'm sure most school teachers are capable of forming opinions based on lots of things about a child.

[OneStepForwardTwoBack]

lol at "shitty arse". I think bum bum is fine. I say it to my son when I want to wash his bottom, he thinks it's hilarious. He has autism and I'm just happy that he will let me wash it, whatever I call it. This thread reminds me a bit of when my children were babies and if I played 'boo' with them, my mil would pull a cat's bum face and say, "Do you mean peepo?" Reading this back, I am obviously frightfully common.

[DustyBaubles]

I'd rather our lot said 'bottom'.

I don't know why I don't like 'bum', I think it reminds me of The Sun newspaper and other trashy magazines, they are always going on about women's 'bums'.

[ComposHat]

YABU you should recer to it as back fanny at all times, especially in front of your mother in law.

[Mike101]

no saying bum is ok when used right
we say bum, but will only let them say it
when talking about the body

[Mike101]

no saying bum is ok when used right
we all say bum here, but we will only let them
say it when talking about the body

[AnnieJanuary]

Tell her you've taught him to say rectum, then, that'll cheer her up.

[ImperialBlether]

I'll never forget a woman opposite me in the post natal ward saying to her baby, "Let's change your shitty arse..."

[BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability]

Actually though, I remember bum was included as a "rude word" when I was in school. Also DS2 came home from nursery this week and told me he'd fallen over on his bottom. Never used the word before, so I guess he must have been corrected?

[BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability]

Another bum bum household! Didnt realise it was so common

But i have been told off for horsey, doggy, birdy etc to DS2 by older relatives. Even though they know DS1 has managed to master the art of horse, dog, bird well before his third birthday

[themaltesefalcon]

I believe the only acceptable word is posterior.

If you were my DIL, I would reprimand you severely.

[CoffeeChocolateWine]

at bottom being such a grown-up sounding word!

Surely it's not no more 'grown-up' than leg or arm or hand or foot. It's just the name of a part of our bodies!

[gingerchick]

My daughter calls her dodi a bum bum because she can't say dum dum it can be confusing but its not rude

[Valpollicella]

I tell DS aged 7 I will BITE his BUTT BUTT if he doesn't get dressed quick enough

Que him being a 'minion'

Whatever works...