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?

Isn't it best just not to mention farts/blow offs/trumping at all? That will be why there's no universally accepted polite term

Ack, just ridiculous, it is a fart, so call it a fart.

Pump is hideously evocative of the actual act and turns my stomach

We use 'fart' in our house. Anything else sounds dreadful and prissy. I'm not much one for pointless euphemism.

Fart = normal, non-offensive word. Laughed for weeks when MIL said DD wouldn't be allowed to say it in school!

I was brought up to say 'trump'. I let my kids say fart, even though it slightly grates (and winds Grandpa up), because I hated being the only kid who wasn't allowed to say fart. I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but it felt like it!

CrystalHaze yes, my son thinks it's hilarious. The teacher also throws hard objects at the pupils, it's their job to duck.

I have to say that my son is 17, this is in a small (6 pupil) group - all boys studying Advanced Higher Physics.
If questioned about the use of language of the throwing of stuff at pupils heads the boys would deny it and defend the teacher to the hilt.
The teacher is only a few years older ( and a lot less smarter ) than the boys in his class.
Same teacher also cooks bacon butties on the bunsen burner (strictly against H&S rules of course)

They do know the word 'fart' though - from Horrible Histories and the Science Museum series (Does Farting make you Faster?'). They know I don't want them to say it. I don't let them say 'bum' either but plenty of children say that too.

Adventure, your children aren't allowed to say "bum"???? What do they call it? Their "sit-me-down"? Their "chair area"?

(also I remember writing a general paper essay in my finals about scatological humour that opened with "go up to a five year old and say 'bum'", possibly my favourite piece of academic work ever)

I am marvelling at this profusion of people who think the word "bum" is swearing.

I think the word fart is hilarious

A perfect, funny description of the act.

I'm equally fond of the word twat, which, when said properly, evokes such venom

Doesn't bother me

You don't let your kids say 'bum'??

Jesus wept.

I'm out.

Gobblers, I am glad to know I'm not the only one who finds "pump" hideous.

It's bottom! Although I did concede I was fighting a losing battle on that one.

There was a much longer list we weren't allowed to say when I was a child, which meant I could shock by saying "poo". There was no need for the C word, which seems to be the only truly shocking word left, and even then not in everyone's view.

I don't let them say 'bum' either but plenty of children say that too.

What on earth do they call their bum then?

We are a farting house, I hate trump or pump. It is what it is- a fart.

We say fluff
Wouldn't allow dd to say fart its vulgar

I don't mind fart. DS1 uses trump most of the time, no idea where he got it from and DS2 copies him.

As foul words go, it's not the worst one they could use. DS1 came home from school the other week and announced he and his mate had spent a good 30 minutes looking up swear words in the class dictionary, and since 'fuck' was in there, was he now allowed to use it in sentences? I was utterly unprepared for that conversation.

We call it a jobbie sneeze.

Ergh, I agree with those on the use of pump, it actually made my teeth itch even typing that.

Botty burp is my personal favourite. But fart also does the job!

I hate cutesy euphemisms for things. We have always said fart. Even my grandparents say fart - quite upper class though so perhaps that has an impact.

We say fluff
Wouldn't allow dd to say fart its vulgar

This made me laugh.

We call it windy pops when my dd does it but she is only 16 months old in my defense

Dd is 2 and has recently been telling me she has farted!

At the play centre yesterday dd shouts to me in front of everybody...

"Mummy, i ve farted!!"

at jobby sneeze. Makes me think of Billy Connolly and his are beige jobby .

Also pmsl at 'fluff'. Yeah you're not setting your kid up to look like a weirdo at all by making them say fluff instead of fart .