To ask...What do you mum's refer to your vaginas as to your little kids?!

[Zara87]

Not even sure this is allowed... but I have an almost 3yo who is now noticing and asking questions about how I wee without a willy!
He keeps saying stuff like "you do a wee out of your that bit" and pointing. I just want something to refer to it as, which doesn't sound ridiculous. I know it is called a vagina but i don't really want to call it that to him, I'm not sure why but it kind of sounds wrong at age 2. My mum used to call it 'a Mary' which i don't like!
Does anyone have any suggestions

Me and my friends randomely have always called it a quiche or goat...

I’m not sure why and thinking I would find it hilarious if my daughter (I’m still pregnant) said “mind my goat!” When passing someone, I need to come up with something else too so I shall keep watch on this thread for ideas!

My sister calls it a coin purse, but I don't think you can suggest that to a 3yo.

Maud is another one.
😂

I'm going to be THAT poster.

My 3yo calls it a vulva.

And no I am not an MN myth!

It's a front bum!

@Zara87 Here on Mumsnet children must be advised that women and girls "wee" through their urethra which is situated between the labia (majora and minor) behind the clitoris but definitely nothing to do with the vagina. Any other terms are considered terribly detrimental to DCs development into fully formed members of the Society of Internet Nutters (SIN).

Carry on calling it what ever you please

I have a 6 yr old DD and 9 yr old DS. I’ve had this conversation. When they were about your DS’s age I explained boys and girls were different, he had a willy that he wee’d out of and Mummy had a little hole instead of a willy where her wee came out of. The reason boys and girls were different was because girls had an extra hole where babies were born from. And that was enough at that age. As they got older I introduced the correct terminology but at 2, DS was happy with that explanation.

poppylizzyrose I don't think I'll look at a quiche the same way again!!

Some of these are hilarious - goat 😂😂!
I just tend to refer to my “ bits”

'there's a hole at the front of my vulva, that's where the wee comes out of"
There.Sorted.

Mymuffinstuck!

Could call it a muffin! 😂 like from mean girls “is your muffin buttered? Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?

Vulva / vagina (I’m trying to use Vulva more but saying vagina is a hard habit to break). Have been using the terms since birth with her (4 yo now). And we use penis as well. Don’t feel the need to use other names. They are what they are!

It was a wee wee, a wee or a Minnie when I was growing up

And OP at the age of 2, DS was hardly talking, no way could he have said the words ‘vagina’ or ‘vulva’. You’ll get some militants on this thread whose offspring were reading Harry Potter at 2, but generally accepted, abbreviated words for genitalia are fine at his age. He can learn the anatomically correct words when he’s a bit older.

Seriously? Get a life and a biology book

minnie

I have never felt the need to discuss my vagina with my children, and I have never used the toilet with them in the room.

Their Dad always used front botty, I have always used correct terminology. I have also always corrected them when they used slang for example the girls use boobs, I always correct it to breasts.
They use slang to get a rise out of me now 😀

Everything is generally just bottom in our house. My eldest is 6 and knows she has 3 holes for poo, wee and babies. She knows the baby hole is a vagina. She knows bum hole is anus and that there's a planet called YOUR-ANUS and she thinks this is a new joke to her generation. But we still mainly call everything bottom for ease. Just a general bottom area. Middle DC is 2 so just understands bottom. All 3DC saw me pee today. No privacy or dignity.

kate my mum was like you. I still have the hang ups.

I'm pregnant with a boy and his will be called penis

I read this as and 'he will be called penis' which I though was a bold, if unusual choice of name.

It's a shame that the 'medical' words do sound so medical.

I told my daughter since she was old enough to ask that there were 3 openings, and named them anatomically, but said that you could call the vulva a ffwff (our nickname for it), in the same way that a stomach can be called a tummy.

It'd be insane if we only ever referred to children's feet and didn't teach them the names of their toes or ankles. They can still call them tootsies, or pinkies or whatever too, but glossing over them entirely might make them feel they were something to be ashamed of.

I've always called it my "nunu".

If you want to use the officially correct word, and you mean the outside bits, then it's vulva. Vagina is the inside bit.
Personally I think it sounds rather clinical. I wish there was a pleasanter, universally understood word. Little boys can say willy and everyone will know what they mean. I don't know why there isn't an equivalent for girls.

Shit the bed some people are so passionate about this

@roundthehorn you are very correct! Next time my 2 year old asks how I wee without a willy I'll be sure to explain the real location of my urethra being situated between my labia
I truly hope these people stick to their guns in all walks of life and therefore do not allow their children to believe that Santa and the tooth fairy are real if fluffing things up slightly for a 2yo is such a shocking thing to do.

Oh and from now, my fanny is called a Goat. Thanks @poppylizzyrose

weenurse you never use slang in your house? Is it always ‘sexual intercourse’ or are you allowed to use the word sex? Is it ‘masturbation’ or can you use the word wank?