AIBU to not want my 8YO to say 'fart'

[Marmaladybird]

I hate the word and shudder just typing it.

I see it as a mild sweary-word and don't let him use it. It makes me feel a bit sick. Am I on my own with this - everyone here (apart from DH) thinks I'm unreasonable.

Should I give him the gift of being allowed to say 'fart' eurgh for Christmas, or make him say trump, pimp and pump for the rest of his life...

LeaLander , quite. How can little Xander Ptolemy Frederick III ever become a high court judge if you let him use the word, fart? His life would be ruined. Ruined, I tell you.

Pimp? a pimp is someone who controls sex workers for a cut (or all) of their takings. But you prefer that to fart? Each to their own.

My ds got told off in year 6 for using the word fart in a piece of literacy work. The teacher wrote that it was 'inappropriate' on his work

Since then I've moved on to trump, purely because it seems unfair to tell them a words ok if it's not ok at school

Think about this logically OP.

How is 'trump' (Donald), 'pimp' (man who controls prostitutes), or 'pump' (Scottish slang for 'shag') ANY better than harmless old 'fart'.

'Fart' is not a swear word, anymore than 'poo' is.

There is sooooooo much more to be bothered about than the words fart or bum!

Gosh, I can small the tight-lipped lower-middle-class angst from here. Or is that a bottom-burp/trump/pump/fart?

Seriously, do those who are rendered slightly sick by the term 'fart' live Hyacinth Bucket-ish lives, surrounded by doilies and discreet visits to the 'powder room'? Do you never look below your own neck and refer to anything below the navel as 'Down There'? Do your husbands say they're going to 'pump ship' when they need the loo, and refer to their 'good lady wives'????

'No one in my family would dream of uttering that word aloud.'

You must be an extremely uptight bunch.

My dad taught me a rhyme about a fart. But it only works if your name rhymes with fart. And you have two friends or family members

There's a difference between couth and uptight, actually. Choosing not to discuss gas, feces etc. in public is hardly an extreme position.

Oh god Lealander merry poncemas !

LeaLander

Oooo get you, ya snooty bugger!

I'm wondering about the fear of uttering it aloud. Maybe they're afraid if they say it aloud three times whilst looking in the mirror that the Fart Demon will appear.

CostaDiva I initially read that as "pump shit"! It seemed quite surprising in amongst all the extreme couthness you were so vividly conjouring up

'Do you never look below your own neck and refer to anything below the navel as 'Down There'?'

But the 'Down There' is mouthed rather that said out loud.

We have always used 'toot' with our ds - I suspect it might not last much longer!

Where I'm from they are called fluffs 😂

*'Do you never look below your own neck and refer to anything below the navel as 'Down There'?'

But the 'Down There' is mouthed rather that said out loud*

So is anything in the bedroom department.

BR, I still remember gazing fondly at a v small DD1, propped up lovingly on my lap, and thinking sentimentally at how we were bonding...till she farted loudly. (Which, at nearly 15, she is still prone to doing.)

The dictionary describes it as informal or slang, rather than a swear word. I think you are fighting a losing battle OP!

Clearly.

Someone on MN once said (on one of the many fart threads) that when their grandfather (I think) 'passed wind' he used to say 'Come in Dungannon I know your knock'.

Most stately!

I think I've travelled back in time to the 70's and the OP is my mother.

My brother and I had to call farts 'Pardon Me's'. I also vividly remember my DM sternly telling me that she and my DF don't like the word bum. It's no wonder I went off the rails as a teenager

Pimp is a fuck sight worse!

No one in my family would dream of uttering that word aloud

That shouldn't be a problem, it doesn't sound like any of you have an anus anyway.

I think it's utterly bizarre that people even give this thought and worry. Who cares about a fart being called a fart? Pimp is beyond revolting as a substitute. I mean just imagine an 8 year old saying, "I'm pimping after that dinner mummy."

Someone on MN once said (on one of the many fart threads) that when their grandfather (I think) 'passed wind' he used to say 'Come in Dungannon I know your knock'.

That was me and it was my uncle