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?

Dungannon!

I'm not going back to work I'm having fart oo much fun

YABU

It's just a word to describe a bodily function.

I think it's better for children to avoid euphemisms for bodily functions and body parts. Avoids confusion, embarrassment etc.

Suppose with anything context and content are important.

Fart isn't vulgar at all. What are you supposed to call it? A fairy puff?

FLUFF!!! Teddy bears and cuddly toys are fluffy. Does that mean they are also farty? Actors can "fluff" their lines if they clam up and forget them. Does that mean they fart instead?

Parp is what Noddy's car used to say in the Enid Blyton stories. It wasn't farting. Well, not unless you could say that Noddy was farting around in Toytown (probably true).

Come to think of it, nobody in those stories ever farted, did they? The Famous Five all ate loads of food and drink wherever they were and not one of them ever farted or went to the toilet.

Pump is just ridiculous. Does the central heating pump fart the hot water around the house?

My parents used to discourage the words fart and bum when we were children, though used them themselves. I never have. Even when the kids were babies and could be heard farting into their nappies we referred to farts and bums. They grew up with those words in their vocabularies right from the outset.

We fart in this house. We also have bums and yes, occasionally arses. We call a spade a spade and don't do silly euphemisms.

Ive googled the "dungannon" thing and it is an old saying here in NI, apparently originating from a radio show in the 50's/60's which would be the time my uncle was a child.

I wouldn't categorise it as vulgar, but with DS1, I've put it in the category of words you shouldn't say in front of the Queen.

Fluff

That's by far the worst name for it on this thread. It doesn't even work! You could work out what was meant from pretty much all of the other words but fluff is just awful.

I presume the Queen farts though. Don't know how she would have referred to them in front of her children.

I love the tweeness of windypops and front bottom. Tweeness should be celebrated more.

We pumped when we were little.

You just know that Prince Philip doesn't suppress his farts for any visiting dignitaries.

That's why they have Corgis. Something needs to take the blame.

The corgis are not with them when they are out on official engagements though. What happens if one of them farts then? Perhaps that is one of the functions of the staff who follow them around, or the police bodyguards - to take the blame for any misdemeanours from the royal bums.

The Queen probably pope the rogue fart in her handbag. Those handbags she carries look pong proof.

This thread has been hilarious, I leave you all, trump-pumpers and botty-burpers to my fav farting duel of all time scooby and shaggy

Odd too how threads on farts and other bodily functions often end up in speculation about how the royals cope with them.

Who said upthread that a grandparent or someone found the word "body" rude. How would that person have referred to a High Street business like The Body Shop?

"How would that person have referred to a High Street business like The Body Shop?"

"Oh, the soap? I got it in ... you know, the Shop."

It was my Nanna. The Body Shop was well after her time I think. She was lovely 4ft"9 of formidable Scotswoman. If she didn't like the word, you didn't say it

Children love vulgar words!
They all go through the toilet jokes.
I wouldn't make a big thing about it.

Ada Birkenshaw has been immortalised, whoever she may be, and rest her soul.
OR
Have you done a Bertie Botts again ds1?

I said fart as a child and I say fart now. So does my three year old. Indeed, at a colleague's wedding when he was 2.5, he let one rip and I whispered to him "was that a poo?". Inevitably, back came the crystal clear, not - at - all whispered reply "no mummy, it was just a fart". Luckily we were at the back so I don't think the comment (or the fart) made it to the happy couple.

My friend at school used to say trump, even as a teenager, and I thought it was hilarious. I have never heard of pump or fluff as a euphemism. At home we sometimes said guff, or whizz poppers in honour of the BFG, but it was mostly fart.

In my house we have different words for different types of fart. Hours of fun.

I laughed at the very title of this thread.
My adult self is a mum and (strict) management teacher. Shh...

I don't have a massive problem with fart, but if it's just a word for a bodily function, do people mind their young children announcing that they're going for a shit?

Shit is far coarser than jolly old fart.

Charley so do we!
SBD (silent but deadly)
Rippler

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