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?

Pants.

Panties and knickers sound really pervy to me.

Knicky knacky noos for some reason!

Well we call them pants, because they are pants.

Knickers for girls, pants for everyone.

Just call it underwear.
Knickers seem's inappropriate to me too, I would use it talking about my underwear to DP but not to anyone else or to describe any child's underwear.

Pants.

Knickers is fine.

Pants all round here. Intrigued by brooks!

Pants!

Panties is horrible.

Nick nacks for DD, crackers for DS

Knickers for me. Underpants and now boxers for the children. One child tried to call them panties in the same way he called PJs jarmies but I recoiled in horror. Panties is vile. Nowt wrong with pants or knickers

How is the word knickers pervy? It is what they are!

Pants grundies or kecks

I have to say until I joined mumsnet , I had no idea panties was a pornified word. I'm sure people said it when I was a child but it seemed innocent , possibly a bit cutesy/twee/ American.

knickers or pants here too.

are you american OP? cos i’ve genuinely never known anyone say ‘panties’

Are you American?

We all wear pants in this house, old, young, male or female it’s PANTS

Cross-post!

I'm also intrigued by "knickers" as a word inappropriate for young children. I wonder if there regional differences.

Knickers or pants

Why wouldn’t you just call them pants? We just say pants, doesn’t matter whose, they’re all pants.

Pants is a generic word for jeans/leggings/treggings/whatever in this house. Pants are outerwear, not underwear.

I have absolutely no idea why knickers is age-inappropriate in my head. It sounds slightly teeheehee maybe. Not an actual real word anyway.

What's wrong with plain ordinary 'Pants', personally I like to say 'knickers' made my little dsis laugh when she was little. Underwear is fine too. Don't over think it.

I think it’s a regional thing. Bit like how fanny is acceptable for children to say in some places but really rude in others.

Are you American OP?