To think a toddler telling me this in public wasn't rude!

[LittleMe03]

Just got off the bus with DC 22months. On the bus, sat in his pushchair he said to me 'I done a poo' I reply 'ok sweetie, we will be getting off the bus and home in a few mins'

Sat quietly again I hear a lady in the seat behind me tut and say to the lady next to her 'why do parents not teach their children to not say such rude disgusting things' I ignored it thinking, surely not talking about us? He's 22 months and it's not rude or disgusting, is it??

She then says 'my nappy needs changing would have done' so this time I know she is obviously talking about us so I turn to her and say 'he's just a little boy, he's not rude, that's ridiculous. Please keep your opinions to yourself'

She stays quiet for the next few minutes but just before we are about to get off the bus I hear her tut. I look at her to give her opportunity to tell me what the problem now was but she doesn't say anything, just stares! The women next to her looked embarrassed.

My MIL has a thing about certain words. Poo and Bum being a couple and used to comment about them being rude

She's lucky she doesn't live in this house . . .

She was an “old snowflake”

She’d be horrified at some of the stuff my lads come out with kids are kids and anyone who is offended by something said by a 2 year old needs to grow a pair.

my niece at around the same age ran up to a wall if bras in Primark and shouted "booooobs!!!" she also likes to laugh and say "I done a bum burp" when she farts

@mountainsoutofmolehills ..... you sound like you take after your name.

Gobsmacked at all these people who think children shouldn't be saying poo. Not mentioning bodily functions and using some kind of euphemism is the best way to produce a repressed adult. I wouldn't want a fellow adult telling me they're going for a poo, but kids will learn soon enough that it's more polite to use other words. Relax ffs.

I’m always fascinated by the formal language these disapproving (usually) old people on buses use. Such perfectly constructed complete sentences.

If that was the worst thing she hears on the bus it must be a different class of bus to the one I get!

Exchange between a small girl and her mum, in two adjoining public toilet cubicles, overheard by my DM.

Imagine this in broad Nottinghamshire accents....

Small Girl: Mummy?

Mummy: Yes me duck?

Small Girl (in amazed tones): I’m fartin’ like ‘Ell!!

What a sad birch she was. I’m SO impressed that you challenged her. Well done you x

*bitch

Ha Juicy can hear that in my head perfectly (from those parts)

Def YANBU from me. Msgd someone this morn to tell them to hang on as I needed a wee and tea (in that order)! And happily told my boss I needed a wee when she asked about my impromptu chair wiggle in the office the other day

When my daughter was about that age as your little one op the postman popped something through the letter box whilst she was stood in the hallway ,and it must've made her jump as she exclaimed 'Oh shit!' I'd have been delighted if she'd said 'Oh poo!

I don't often travel on the bus but next time I do I'll be watching out for her. May suggest she sits a little further away, just incase

Not mentioning bodily functions and using some kind of euphemism is the best way to produce a repressed adult.

Or cause horrible misunderstandings . . .teacher friend had a child in her reception class who kept telling her he needed a "baked beanie" - she didn't realise what he was getting at until he shat himself . . .