Not really AIBU but genuine opinions wanted

[islandofsodor]

Tonight we were all messing around when dd said "I'm so excited I'm going to pee my pants". She is 6. I sort of double took, asked her to repeat what she had said, told her I don't want to hear you saying things like that again, where did you hear it.

It's a line that x has to say in the play she said. The girls in the play are between 6 and 8 years old and it was written by the teacher/developed through improvisation.

Now I'm wondering if I am being a bit prudish or should I say something.

As a parent would you be happy with your child saying this?

If there are any teachers around would you think this is appropriate or would you be a bit wary in case parents complained?

Is it a regional thing? No one round here says pee. I don't like it. Go island!

it's an americanism. it's also from a fairly crummy film about a prostitute. if the line was 'wet my pants' i'd still find it a bit cringey, tbh, just cos it's a bit gross...
woud i mention? if my dd had the line, i would. otherwise not.

I would have taken this as the point of departure for a discussion of the differences between a character speaking lines and my own dd being herself. I would point out that in a play you might be a monster eating children or a wicked witch giving people poisoned apples, but that you wouldn't be doing those sort of things in real life. I would have asked dd to think about what the expression said about that character in the play and if she thought it was well chosen to express what that particular person was like. And I would point out gently that it is not acceptable for her to bring this 'play language' into real life. But then I did perhaps have rather a precocious dd and I used to love those analytical conversations.

I don;t like it and wouldn't like to hear it in a children's play. I hold my hand up though to being quite prudish.

I do realise that this is not a US presidential election and so you can only vote once BUT I would like to slide in another duplicate vote for it's awful.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid TBH, I don't allow four letter words to be used by or in front of my kids but I am not bothered about mild colloquialisms for bodily functions, my kids say fart, MY MIL says pump which makes me cringe a bit and a friend of mine won't let her kids say BUM, its a bit Hyacinth Bouquet to worry about such things, if you ask me, next you'll be banning your kids from playing with "common" children.

Nowt to worry about, just a line in a play, not offensive, just silly!