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?

I'm really struggling to understand why using the word fart is something to be judged for. What about burp? Same action in essence, different orrifice.

Some people are bloody weird.

Small children pop or quack here. I fart.

No word is rude in and of itself- just the sentiment behind it- and I think fart is intended as a vulgarity.

I had never come across those awful twee euphemisms in quite such numbers until I started living in rural England - literally, I had never heard 'trump' or 'pump' or 'pop off'. My three year old comes home with them from his childminder, and gets short shrift at home, which he finds quite amusing.

From what I can gather - as a foreigner fascinated by how much class still affects what people say in this country (witness that 'what' vs 'pardon' thread on here of late) - the WC, middle-middle and upper-middles, and UC are likely to say 'fart', whereas it's the lower-middle class who specialise in 'trump' and the like....?

Actually, I can't remember the last time anyone mentioned farting by whatever name. Why do you all need to talk about it so much?

Baked beans are good for the heart
The more you eat the more you fart
The more you fart the better you feel
So eat baked beans with every meal

"Mummy, ive just performed an expulsion of warm noxious air"

ITS A FART!

Nail on head Socalled, I think.

Bang on SoCalled.

I'm incredibly fucking posh.

We generally say trumpet because if you heard my husband you would know it was very appropriate. My son says fart, but he know not to say it in front of grannie!

Socalled as one foreigner to another, you are right: anything above middle class will use words like fart, loo, bum, what?

Middle class and lower will use windy-pops, toilet, bottom and pardon?

Well exactly AdventureBe - my ds is 15 & I haven't heard him pass wind since he was a baby - if people learnt how to control themselves there would be no need for these discussions.

Another fart household. DD (3) enjoys pointing out various foods that have that effect... I also quite like air biscuit.

I don't think it is any ruder than poo, wee, bum etc.

They're a little crass, but there are worse words I'd not want my kids to use.

I grew up in a family that said 'blow off'.

I now say fart and wouldn't think anything of a child saying that.

I have to say it hasn't been a major topic of conversation since I was about six and I'm baffled by people who find farting the height of hilarity.

But then some people like Mrs Brown's Boys.

My kids say fart constantly. They call each other fart, everything is fart, wee, poo etc. I can be pretty funny but after a while gets annoying.

In my church once month we have a testimony mtg so anyone can get up and speak. My SIL told me about a testimony mtg she was at where a little boy got up and told everyone that they had been working very hard in their family to stop saying 'The F word'. And that it was hard and that their dad especially was finding it hard to stop saying 'The F word' . Dad got up after him and explained that the F word was fart. Cringe.

But even if someone does let one slip, there's no need to discuss it LikeICan

Grannie would wonder what the fuck my children were possessed by if they used pathetic twee words like the above mentioned. But tbf, we're a 'what' and 'loo' sort of family.

This post is an eye opener, seems to me my mum is doing most of the posts!! I'm a nurse and mother to boys and girls, we can use any word that isn't blasphemist, racist, sexist or disablist. I can't believe people don't like the word bum!!

I'm working class.

Not one person in my family/friend circle say anything other than Fart, we also say bum.

My 2 year old announces loudly that she's farted followed by "pardon me!", can't say it bothers me.

I hate prissy words like " trump", "pop", " fluff" and "bottom".

Fluff? So would you say 'I fluffed'? 'Jimmy did a fluff'?

What a load of shit bottom waste.

I don't like it either. When my son was little (he's 6 now) we used to say whizz-pops and we generally say 'let off wind', but all his friends at school say fart so he's started saying it too. I don't tell him off for using it and he knows it's not a bad word, but I just tell him that I don't like that word and I'd prefer if he didn't use it at home as I don't want his 2yo sister picking it up.

It's the same with bum..I don't like the word and they say bottom. They know it's not a bad or rude word, but that I don't like it being used at home.

I've never really understood why people talk about farts?
"Quick, open the window! I've farted and it's an eye-burner"

"I've never really understood why people talk about farts?"

The toddler (picture extremely reassuring face, much like doctor delivering test results): "It not a poo in my nappy. It ok. It just a fart".

To me it depends on the age of the child. I know it's silly but I don't like toddlers saying fart however, I would think a teenager saying pump or equivalent is daft. I wouldn't mind a school aged child saying fart but it isn't the word I would teach to a toddler.

Quite AdventureBe. If I or someone else does fart by mistake, I draw a discreet veil .

If someone does it deliberately I ask them to: 'stop fucking doing that, you dirty pig.'