wiggle your bum

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Nc'd for this because it outs me.

DD (21) has been asked not to say "wiggle your bum" to a little girl toddler. (WTF ??!!) Am I missing something? Is there anything wrong with saying this? DD is upset. Didn't realise she was doing anything wrong. Is she? Or is toddler's mother being precious?

It's a minefield - I suppose it depends in what context did she say it.

Where did this occur?

why was she saying it to her?

I think it's horrible.

I mean the phrase, not the getting told off for it.

We need details for context.

I know of one or two lemon faced buttock clenchers who don't like 'bum' and prefer 'bottom' instead.

Judy - you think 'wiggle your bum' is horrible? Horrible?
It's not 'horrible' at all.

Maybe the mother felt that 'bum wiggling' was a bit sexual? Not that your DD was being in any way sinister, but that she (mother) feels that the provocative act of bum wiggling is sexualising her DD at a young age? That's the only reason I can come up with.

I am thinking Beyoncé style wiggling, not Birdie Song wiggling

More info needed

I mean does she just walk round the streets telling random toddlers to wiggle their bums?

They were dancing. In the house. mother of toddler does indeed prefer "bottom". She thought the phrase had unfortunate connotations.

Oh. It's bum/bottom issue.

Meh.

At the (church) playgroup we go to they add "if you 're happy and you know it clap wriggle your bum" to "if you're happy and you know it clap your hands"......It grates on me severely & I feel more like my mother each time.

Why does bum have unfortunate connotations? I just thought it was a childish way to say bottom! Have I missed a memo again?

The mother is being precious. Doesn't sound wrong to me

Meh - tell your dd not to give it another second of her time and thought.
Precious is as precious does. Dimiss as twit, and move on...

See i dont like bottom as is sounds twee and great grannyish.

I always think people who say bum is vulgar as the type say aunt flow instead of period and pooh instead if poo.

I say it to DD (4), can't see the problem myself.

Perhaps the mother thinks your DD is about to teach the little girl to twerk.

How do you say pooh instead of poo? Don't they sound the same?

How can you say pooh instead of poo? Are they pronounced differently?!!

Hahaha great minds

See i dont like bottom as is sounds twee and great grannyish indeed, and people who say "Bottom Burp" instead of "Fart" just need to get over themselves.

And I HATE 'Aunt Flo' ... grates on me every time i have to write AF in the conception threads, because it's easier than writing 'menstrual period', but pisses me off all the same. It's not my fucking aunt come to visit FFS!

Mind you, I get told off for teaching my friend's toddlers about 'bogeys', 'farts' and 'poo' all the time. It's what childless old aunties are for....

tell your DD to say

"shake yer arse" next time!

aiiight?

I don't like the word bum at all. I don't even like typing it. I fully accept this is my problem though. It falls into the 'hun, hubs, bubs, tum, pooh, ta' camp and I actively teach the dc not to use it as a term. I don't impose any of this on their friends however.

Justin Fletcher is always exhorting toddlers to "wiggle your bottoms" on Justin's House. So it's a BBC approved toddler dance move
If it's a bottom/ bum issue the mum is being ridiculous - we say butt sometimes to my mother (she prefers Hindey -Ho )