To think "Blow off" is NOT more polite than "Fart"?

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We have a toddler. He has just learned the word "Fart". DH thinks we should teach him to say "Blow off" instead as it's nicer/more polite.

AIBU to think "Blow off" is a much worse term than "Fart"? It sounds very crude to me. It definitely doesn't sound to me like a polite euphemism and I'd rather just say "Fart".

YABU = "Blow off" sounds more polite than "Fart".
YANBU = "Blow off" sounds worse than "Fart".

Always think fart is really crude. We always thought blow off much politer but I am thinking of years ago but I still don’t like fart especially spoken by a child.

Fart was considered a swear word in my family We always had to say pop or broke wind.

Couldn't stop my boy gleefully saying fart (and he did love to fart!) though I think trump is a great word for this day and age!

Yeah I find it all quite vulgar and we never discussed it as a family

DH is another matter, blow off better.

*The one I really loathe is "drop your guts" - my ex used to say that and it is too descriptive^

Yes but that's not a fart...

The eytomology (sp?) of blow off does make sense though. It's a steam train word for letting off the steam when too much has accumulated. There is a blow-off valve and everything!

we taught our children to say trump, just think it sounds less offensive and a bit more child like... god knows why?

Sorry this thread has made me laugh probably been hanging around DS too long when they were little we said "windy pops" which I remember agonising over🙄

Why be twee about the air coming out of your bum?

It's a fart.

Ripping ass?

A fart is a fart in this house. Blow off/fluff/trump and the like are just unbearably twee. Had to stop a nanny teaching the children blow off.

We taught our (then) 4yr old to use "toot" instead of fart. I was quite pleased about this until one day we got on a bus which announced that "this bus terminated at Tooting Broadway". Well...my child found this hilarious I relaxed a bit after this!

perhaps I am showing myself up as very uncouth but I sincerely do not understand what is wrong with the word "fart".

• yes my mother was at pains to encourage my siblings and I not to fart in polite company and I learned for myself that if you gas out a group of people and it is obvious that it was you then you will feel embarrassed; and

• yes I get that infront of older generations you probably would not raise the topic of "farts" and "farting" as something for discussion over afternoon tea. etc

but the actual word "fart". Is there some other very crude meaning to the word I have missed all my life?

I am now worried that we do indeed use the word "fart" in our house (or being very windy etc) fairly freely - have I done my 10 and 11year old a dis service?

DS (5) tends to use toot but it's not in a particularly prim way as he does really loud, smelly grown up farts and accompanies then with a shout of "TOOT"!

I haven’t heard “blow off” since I was a kid, that’s what we had to say as fart was rude!

We use trump with DS, but fart is fine.

LOL @ Tooting Broadway......

We weren't allowed to say either. If it had to be spoke about, which should be avoided at all costs, it's "pass wind".

I "let" my DC say fart to be naughty. I.e. they knew they shouldn't and there was a time an a place (definitely not in front of DGPs) but they just got a stern look rather than any actual action.

Air biscuit is the worst I've heard. Gross

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Why be twee about the air coming out of your bum?

It's a fart.

Because they will get told off at nursery or school for using it.

When I was in junior school, our classroom dictionary defined ‘fart’ as ‘an explosion between the legs.’

Which seemed a bit dramatic.

Nothing wrong with fart in my view.
Loathe twee euphemisms. Heard one of my daughter's friends refer to a 'bottom burp', and now like to refer to burps as mouth farts. Not that I'm childish or anything.

When my son was around 2 he farted, laughed and said ‘bum pop’ so we’ve used that ever since along with fart. Bum pops are small, farts are bigger and we do find farts funny in this house, sorry!

@LunaNorth

When I was in junior school, our classroom dictionary defined ‘fart’ as ‘an explosion between the legs.’

Which seemed a bit dramatic.

Very dramatic

@GreyishDays I have worked in childcare and education for my entire working life. I've never known a child to get into trouble for saying or doing a fart, I have no idea where this idea seems to come from - I've only ever heard of it on here 🤔

Farting is a term used by our own NHS, it's a descriptive and universally understood word!

When my dsis and I were young saying fart would result in a telling off as a minimum. It was not something ever spoken about in our very strict upbringing.

When it was just the two of us we had different names for different types.
So it included fluff, brit, ratatat and fart depending on the sound made

This is what happens when you repress your children

I hate pimp. Pimping. They teach the toddlers that here