to think a 2 year old shouldnt say fart!

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a friend of mines dd says fart all the time! i dont like it and would prefer something less rude! Is it just me?

pesme but what were they called before farts! thats a fairly modern word! i dont see it in the same context as poo etc! oh well each to there own!

DS is 20mo and when he farts I say "oooh you did a fart!" in the interests of broadening his vocabulary (hasn't learnt it yet though) - it never occurred to me for a second that anyone thought it was rude! Rude to do it, yes, in polite company but not the word. Now I'm wondering if I've been a bit over-keen. Ooh! Fart! It's a fart! Farty bum-bum! etc...

Well, we all fart in our house icluding dd (2) - I've got no problem with it.

dd says fart. But only in context IYSWIM.
loathe bottom burp. We used to say "blew off" as children.
I don't really see the problem with it as a word.

DS1 uses "pop pops" which we think is hilarious..
Recently from him:
"Daddy! Was that you doing a pop pop? Have you pooed your pants young man?"
PMSL

Sorry -should have been "blow off" of course. Getting my tenses muddled.

I don't like the word; would be somewhat suprised to hear the word come out of the mouths of a little one! DD says "pumped" or "trumped" if anything.

at the moment dd (14 months) shouts 'poop-poop' in the manner of Toad of Toad Hall whenever the mood strikes, but that will annoy me by the time she's 2 and i will insist on the more prosaic 'fart'. a friend of mine says 'i think someone's popped off' and i always panic she's talking about someone dying.

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Farts in my house too. Can't bear euphemisms for this, too Hyacinth Bucket for me!

Not bothered by it tbh. Don't encourage its frequent use.

So we won't be trumping our way round the London Aquarium then bugsy. Dd has a Chaucerian vocabulary, I am warning you

LOL, Marina. I don't encourage bottom related conversation either, but have a great fondness for Chaucer, so bring it on!

Everyone farts constantly in our house. I dont't like the twee euphemisms either. However, I do draw the line at teaching DS to call a sht a sht, which is what my oh-so-bohemian mother would prefer. All the twee euphemisms make her cringe!

Well DD (2) has been taught to say 'Mother, I have passed wind'.

Just kidding. It's farts all the way in our house. I think DD says it rather sweetly. She gives plenty of emphasis to the 'f'. More of a fffffart.

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Another Twee - bottom burp here too...

we all say fart mostly so I am sure dd3 will say it

tbh we dont really mention it, if someone farts we tend nto to say anything or just smile

I think anything other than fart is common

we say popped off - no taboo about fart but fro some reason ds and dd think it the rudest, most hilarious word ever...

when my sister was very little she picked up the expression "whoops i stepped on a frog" as a euphemism for farting (?!).

she said it in front of someone who clearly wasn't familiar with the phrase who then began to look for the frog!!!

I think you should say guff instead...it's far funnier. Of course NOT in the middle of waitrose though

Not a word I would tolerate my kids using tbh

We talk about smells and gas

Dont have any problem with the word fart in our house

It has really never occured to me that fart is a bad thing to say. I absolutely hate windy pops and bottom burps and fluffs etc - yuck. I love the way my 2 year old says fart, she says, 'oh, i futted' very coyly.