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.

Loo or toilet here

I was brought up to say lavatory or lav.

When I got together with DH (we were both quite young at the time, early 20s) he said toilet, and after a while I started saying toilet too as I started to hear myself as pretentious if I said anything else. I tried to remember to say lav around my parents, but they didn't seem to mind too much if I didn't remember.

I encouraged my children to say toilet right from the start because I think it's the one word everybody knows. I wouldn't have wanted them to be crossing their legs at school or playgroup because they asked to go somewhere the adult had never heard of.

Loo is the only one I use.

Lavatory is OK, but sounds a bit like you're trying too hard.

Bathroom/restroom are cringe-worthy American euphemisms.

Toilet was originally a euphemism used by English lower-middle class social climbers to sound more "genteel". Similar to how some people use "spend a penny" or "powder my nose" now. Toilet is just common now.

Bog is unutterably vulgar.

Seriously, you'd walk into a place and ask where the shitter is rather than the toilet?!

And particularly strange if you only need to do a wee and not a shit.

Depends on the place. It's commonplace in military circles and with titled folk. I'd use loo though if I walked into somewhere on the hop.
@AlwaysGinPlease

And yup still the shitter even if it's only a tinkle that's required @SerenChocolateMuncher

@mantyzer Happy Christmas! My mother was exactly that: a wannanbe Victorian (but only of the highest social echelon). Sometimes she would refer to 'doing her ablutions', which as a child I heard as ablootions. 🤣