AIBU to think children using the word fart is vulgar?

[Fizzielove]

DH and I have had a long standing disagreement regarding the DC using the word fart - I won't allow it and he has pointed out to the DC's that it is not a 'bad word but just one that I don't like them using.

AIBU? or is he?

But....but.....but....all those words sound as silly as fart without making as much sense as fart!

This is true! I personally say fart but I just find it wrong when from young mouths.... The word not the fart? Ok now that sounds really odd but u kno what I mean! .

I tell my dc that fart is not a nice word to use. We can pump, trump, squeak, boff in this house but we cannot fart!

So if they let one escape at school they apologise for squeaking or boffing!!!?? Does that not sound faintly ridiculous?

We will always call a fart a fart in this house.

I do know what you mean (I was not allowed to say fart, bum, belly, knickers, poo or wee as a child) but I am determined not to pass on these repressions to another generation. I don't want my children getting teased for saying "break wind" like I did, I'd rather they were told off for saying fart.

It does sound ridiculous! I think all the words do tbh? But fart just not a nice word for little ones imo.

WhoKnows I had no idea knickers was considered vulgar in some homes.

What did you say instead? Pants?

And what did you say instead of wee and poo?

WhoKnows We have a few words that dc learn r not swear words but just not very nice to use. Fart is one, crap is another. Not in a repressive way, just words that I personally don't want to hear from my dc.

We definitely say fart, I hate euphemisms. Mind you when DS was little we did go through a phase of using his terminology after he announced "My bottom blowed".

We have those rules around shit, crap, arse but not being allowed to say fart, knickers and bum is too repressive for me.

Yes, pants was what we had to say. They had their own twee words for wee and poo which I'm not even going to say as for one thing they are so cringey and for another my DM uses MN sometimes and I might out myself as they were unique to our family AFAIK.

Crap is far slangier (and coarser) to me than fart. Fart is the official term for that noise.

So letting your kids say pump (shag) is ok but fart isn't. Ok

Oh dear, dd1's 'Happy Farter's Day' card wouldn't have gone down so well in your house!!

I dont like the word 'fart' either.

I expect my children to say 'Mother, one just released flatus from the rectum via the anal sphincter''.

Not read the whole thread - I have three small children and we say 'rudie' for fart... I like it.

I remember Zig and Zag used to call farts rudies.

LOL go and have a look at the kids programme horrible history.

They use Fart, and Crap and Poo, and other toilet humour kids find irresistible to drive the teaching home.

Best ban all those words so that HH appears a reckless adventure in rude language that needs watching all the time. :)

YABU

YABU.

Kids love it and imo life is too short to stand on ceremony, especially considering what we are talking about here. A fart by any other name is still a blast from your intestines, of varying noxiousness.

We used to say Honk, which is what DS called them when he was a toddler. ('Parp', 'toot' or 'fluff' wouldn't have cut the mustard here and I never heard the word trump until I joined MN..)
But then DD1, the oldest, went to school and learned fast.

Dd2 went through a phase of calling them 'boomcrackers'

I suppose the more faint-hearted could just say 'I let one go.' In the 70's we said 'let off.'

I don't see the point of this thread- you can argue as much as you like , but if it is vulgar children love it! Finding there are 408 children's books for sale in Amazon with 'fart' in the title proves that it is a well known fact!

I think pump, trump etc sound worse than fart. I don't get why people think it is vulgar? But then I don't get shocked by what is bad language, it's just language at the end of the day (that doesn't mean my kids swear, dc1 is starting too with friends but he is a teenager)

Between this thread and the fanjo one, I feel compelled to resurrect this song:

Bum tit tit
bum tit tit
bum tit tit
bum tit tit

play a hairy banjo!

I'm doing the actions as we speak.

Or watch this

GhettoFabulous, age 46 and a half.

At least 'fart' is understood by everyone.

Why would an adult need to say it? Surely the point of such words is that children have a sense of being naughty and transgressive in a safe way.