What do you call your child’s underwear?

[DorothyLNaySayers]

Potty training 2.5 yr old Dd. I hate the word ‘panties’ but ‘knickers’ seems age-inappropriate and ‘underwear’ too generic. Are there any better words out there?

Knicker-knacker-noos. Obviously.

We're potty training too and use pants for all of our underwear. Although I always said knickers when I was a youngster.
The pants I've just bought for DD describe themselves as briefs on the packet.

Undies for males and knickers for females.

Underwear / knickers / boxers

And as for trousers / pants, we say 'bottoms'! Ie- it's cold outside, you need warmer bottoms on!

Pants here, so she can relate more to the pants rule when we teach it to her.

Never even thought about this! My 2 yr old calls them pants or knickers or knicks.

*IOp why are we pervs?

I'm sure I don't know. Maybe you were born that way, maybe you were corrupted at a young age. I think that's something you should probably work through with a therapist, though, rather than asking random people on the Internet.*

Excuse me??? Because we don't like the word so panties we are all perverts?

I think you are the one who needs to think about things? Corrupted at a young age? What nonsense are you gibbering on about?

Pants here for everyone, although panty-poo-pahs if I'm feeling jovial :)

OP, how about undies if you find underwear a bit too formal? Or make up your own name for them. It really doesn't matter. What does your DD call them? Let her pick a name and go with it :)

Pants or knickers

Boxers for DS and knickers for DD.

Both know the difference between leggings,jeans, joggers etc

I really don't like the word panties for a child but pants is ok not sure why

My Nan calls knickers knick-knicks

OP, bet you wish you'd never asked.

It was pants for us growing up, or lots of people would've used knickers (in a part of Ireland where pants didn't mean trousers, but the concept didn't blow our minds ).

Undies could work well for you I think.

@Cheeeeislifenow yikes, I think you need to have a little lie down. Saying "bunch of bloody pervs" was obviously a joke as indicated by the right next to it.

Oh, and panties to me is just American for women's underwear. I picture something lacy, but it doesn't seem pervy at all.

Not sure where the joke is here.....

Op why are we pervs?

I'm sure I don't know. Maybe you were born that way, maybe you were corrupted at a young age. I think that's something you should probably work through with a therapist, though, rather than asking random people on the Internet.*

There’s something a bit odd about having such a bizarre reaction to the word ‘panties’

OP, bet you wish you'd never asked.

So, so much.

@BlackInk DD calls them what I tell her they're called, as we live abroad and I'm the only person she speaks English with on a daily basis...aside from Peppa the Pig, but Peppa has not mentioned pants as either underwear or outerwear in any episode we've seen so far.

Mum always called mine knickers... it's what they are. Pants is fine too.

Panties is disgusting and should be eradicated as a phrase.

Knickers, but more often Knick-Knicks. (3 yo DD).

@Firesuit I think 'panties' is abhorred in the U.K. because it's only really used in porn and occasionally US shows so it's overly sexualised to us and it' also sounds really odd in an accent hat pronounces it's Ts

Pants for all

Pants is iften interchangeable for undies and trousers ( including joggers, leggings etc) it depends on the context.
E.g. 'stop running round in your undies, get some pants on' ( usually said to a toddler and not my teenagers)
Or 'there's a pile of clean pants and socks in your undies drawer now the laundry is done'

@Cheeeeislifenow I was intentionally misinterpreting your rather syntactically-challenged post for comic effect. well, it amused me anyway. i'm sorry you were offended by it.

aaanyway...i have just realised i haven't watched enough porn in my life. i totally didn't get the 'panties = porn word' memo.

Panties is an American word. If you're used to it obviously it sounds normal, if you're not it can sound like you've taken the word pants and made it sound really childish in a slightly disconcerting way. No one is a pervert because of this. Very very odd statement indeed.

DorothyLNaySayers I laughed. Must be our strange Irish humour.

Our strange really-American Irish humour.