To ask about children and appropriate language

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My extended family have reacted in shock to dd (nearly 3) talking about a fart

Have I made a massive faux pas? The irony is I never really swear bar the odd 'bloody hell' but I never thought of fart as being a bad word?

Trump, parp, pop etc are like frilly valance sheets and toilet roll dollies to me!

My DS's say fart. I tend to say broke wind. The DS's also have a vast number of words for testicles (they are 5 & 8) which my mum hates but I didn't like growing up unable to even talk about anything bodily related - we couldn't even say the word period because my mum hates anything like that, and I had no fanjo word AT ALL (I didn't know what to tell the DS's girls had instead of willies - a friend with DD's helpfully provided foofoo, which is what they now use)

It was always trump in our house when I was a kid. Fart was considered a bit vulgar, but I don't personally think it's that bad. I'll never forget the late, great Dave Allen talking about how he and his siblings used to call farting "whispering", and the time his grandmother, apparently unaware of this, said to him "Come and whisper in Granny's ear..."

Incidentally, I don't think trump is a particularly regional term. Boff & keff, on the other hand, are.

My friend's family used to say trump when I was little. I thought it was hilarious. My 2yo says fart; like a pp, I see it as on a par with bum or poo.

I don't allow god, oh my god, Jesus, Jesus Christ, let alone anything like shit or worse.

Fart gets used at least twenty times a day though. That's just what it is. I don't like euphemisms for people of my generation or younger. Theyre so prissy.

I think fart is fine. I use it as do my small children (not very often). Occasionally ds1 will announce that he has farted, I tell him there is no need to tell everyone. It's the announcing, not the word that I object to.