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...

My parents had that rule. You didn't fart you made "a nasty smell".

And then at boarding school they were called buffs. I boff, you boff, she boff she, who boffed ? etc.

My first tentative step into teenage rebellion at 13 was joining the normal world of calling a fart a fart.

It went to my head and I upped the game to the use of (surreptitious) fucks shortly afterwards.

I'm not entirely sure why, but I remember the whole sidestepping of fart was really quite stressful.

BIL has never heard my sister fart. In 22 years together, not a one. I blame all the "nasty small" business when we were young. It made her bottom overly polite.

RudeElf that's brilliant! My FIL is the complete opposite. He regularly does a very loud fart after dinner and nobody says anything ever. And I, with the sense of humor of an 8 year old, end up trying to stop my shoulders moving in silent laughter.

We need to start reusing trump. Especially if a certain gentleman becomes president...

Seriously though, fart is offensive? My niece uses pops and I find that much more cutesy and annoying.

My mum was uptight about anything in the 'private' department.

I was girl therefore I must never fart, mention anything to do with what goes on in the toilet, or mention my 'private parts'

This was never lectured to me of course, I just grew up knowing my mum hated it so I never mentioned those things.

This meant that I grew up truly believing I was the only female who farted and there was something wrong with me. Of course I couldn't go to my mum for advice because I didn't dare mention it. It was horrible looking back. We were a 'common' WC family too so don't know where it all came from.

Please op don't let your DCs grow up feeling weird about farts, they're utterly normal and so is the word.

RudeElf

I love your uncle!

RudeElf that's brilliant! My FIL is the complete opposite. He regularly does a very loud fart after dinner and nobody says anything ever. And I, with the sense of humor of an 8 year old, end up trying to stop my shoulders moving in silent laughter.

my dad and uncles all have the 8yo sense of humour when it comes to farting. Its quite hilarious seeing how funny they find each other. My mum insists she doesnt ever fart. Except that one time when she was drunk and we all heard her but she denies it was a fart

I wonder if OP finds this thread painful to read?

Fart is great word!

As a child I used to call them "rude offs" or Rudolphs because your bottom let off a rude noise. My younger DC called them Whiff Offs for a similar reason.

Can't beat a good old fart though

I meant my younger DB not DC!

I don't particularly like it but every alternative I have ever heard is far worse, so fart it is.

As for never discussing them, why ever not? They are a normal bodily function. How do you teach them fart etiquette (not doing them in enclosed spaces for example) if you can't mention them?

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.

We need to start reusing trump. Especially if a certain gentleman becomes president...

Definitely! In fact, no need to wait till that unlikely day, let's start now.

When DS was tiny, he used to say "My bottom blew". So it's become the expression of choice in our family.

Fart is regularly used in our family and it's often been the source if a huge laugh. My dd11 the worst culprit.

We use Fart, trump, done-one and 'lady-puffs' (in an ironic way of course after dd has just let rip).

They know not to do it company or public. They're not animals. My dd has just started her periods and because we've been very open and not uptight about bodily functions she's been able to ask the most detailed questions and I feel it's eased the whole thing really.

Don't be a twat OP.

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

Not that we admit to in public, anyway.

I forgot - I used to say 'ghost poo' when younger. I made it up. I thought I was hilarious.

Fart is way better than those other words which I can't even type.

Let the boy says fart.

However windypops is very cute for a newborn baby.

Nope!!!
The kids trump in our house and fart is a naughty step offence!!!
Fart is a horrid word!!! It's not acceptable to say " I've just been for a crap!" And trump is in the same category!!!

YANBU

When I was growing up in a NE pit village the word was pump.
Since leaving home over 50 years ago it has usually been fart and I don't mind children using it.

That's a lot of exclamation marks for a bit of wind Boo.

So do they say trump or not?

Crap is different. It's poo, bum and fart.

FartFartFartFartFartFartFartFartFartFartFartFartFart

( imagining op shuddering frenzy)

Yes I am eight!

My parents made us call them 'sparkles' (yes, really!) cleaning adverts were hilarious to us.

DS (2) calls them farts because that's what they are.

This meant that I grew up truly believing I was the only female who farted and there was something wrong with me
Oh God, me too. It was years before I realised everybody on the planet farts.

My ma had lots of twee little words for bodily functions and body parts to the extent that, when I started school, nobody knew what the fuck I was on about.

haha! Okay. I'm so uptight about this word, it's untrue. Not Hyacinth Bucket-ish at all...

I'll try and stop my toes curling next time I hear the word and give the boy a bit of freedom. I know he'd get laughed at for saying my sub words at school.

I accept the ridicule...

IYANBU - it isn't a pleasant word to use...parps in this house.