Do you care if your child says loo, toilet, bathroom or bog?

[mantyzer]

And importantly why?
I ask because I do not understand why anyone cares about things like this and want to understand peoples thoughts around this.

Toilet

I might mind, because I would want my children to get on in life, and there are certain social conventions that can smooth the way.
But I was brought up with lots of dodgy words (lounge, serviette, pardon, toilet etc) and over time I have learnt to swap most of them out. So we don't have to stick with what we pick up in childhood.

Lavatory is the correct term. Anything else is bit common.

Loo and toilet used here. They were called the bogs at school but that was many moons ago for me. Been to Canada and had to learn bathroom and rest room. Signs in most shopping centres say toilets. Remember when women would say that they were going to powder their nose when out and needing the loo.

Loo, toilet, occasionally bathroom.

I haven't heard anyone use the word "bog" since I was a teen in the 80s.

Toilet is far more vulgar than bog or shitter.

We use loo although lav is acceptable.

It’s a class thing. Very working class here and I say bathroom even though there isn’t a bath in there the majority of the time. I don’t like the way bog sounds.

Mine says loo. Neither of us like the word toilet.

Occasionally use the word toilet and loo too.

He's too young but I imagine he'll say toilet/bathroom because that's what we say. I'm not a fan of loo or bog but won't care at all if he says it.

I wouldn't like bog and definitely not the shitter.

Exactly this @MulledWineBeMine

I'm surely not alone in wanting the best for the DC, and now the DGC, so bringing them up to know how to behave, have manners and, yes, use what is deemed to be the correct language and accent, isn't too outlandish a thought.

(ducks for inevitable onslaught)

Nicely put.

Mine have taken to calling it the ‘dunny’ thanks to Bluey. I rather like it 😂

I was brought up to say loo, but I’ve got no problem with anyone else saying toilet, bathroom, restroom, etc.

’Bog’ sounds like a try-hard teenager in the 90s to me. Might appear in the same sentence as ‘getting off with…’

’Shitter’ is a no from me, at least for a child.

I’m intrigued by posters referring to other people/their choice of language as ‘common’. I honestly thought that had died a death decades ago. Embarrassing.

@Evaka "As someone who grew up with it it makes me really cross: it’s based on nothing but judgement and the narcissism of minor differences. It should have died out ages ago."

Me too. I agree. It's about making a club, inventing the rules and not telling anyone about them so you know who to exclude. I taught my children the rules in case they ever need them because there are people who might be useful to them who might judge them. But it's shit.

Mine say ‘going to visit Thomas’ or ‘going to read with Thomas.’

Thomas crapper they always enjoyed the name being the inventor

it’s just something they made up and it makes me laugh

Loo or toilet is fine.

Bathroom is fine if you actually mean bathroom, not if you mean toilet/ loo.

Everything except bog. Just sounds uncouth.

Loo or bathroom is this house, our cat calls it “the pan.”