to be disappointed that the word "fart" seems acceptable for children now?

[Housemum]

DH bought a copy of the Beano for DD2 (age 6) - which had the delightful free gift of a "Fart Bucket" (squidgy putty to make farty noises) on the front and a wordsearch with different words for fart - air biscuit, bottom burp etc. Now I know that kids use this word, and I'm probably an old fogey, but I don't really see it as acceptable in print? I'd prefer good old fashioned trumps, botty burps, blow off, parp etc. I've explained to DD2 that it may be said in the playground, but I don't expect to hear her say it (in the same way that I'm sure teenage DD swears with her mates, but wouldn't in the house or in polite company). Interestingly it doesn't seem acceptable on Corrie, as last night a character said "I havn't got time to f-, er, break wind".

So, bring on the opinions and shoot me down for being an old fart (yeah, and a hypocrite, it's OK if I say it...)

I never thought fart was a rude word, until I started working for as a Mothers help for a very 'middle class' family. The children had to say 'pump'. Pump sounds so disgusting. The children say fart now because of school and my influence. They also use 'bottom' for vagina/vulva but that's a whole other thread!

My 2yr old dgs says 'Hmmm party fants' which we accept very cheerfully!

Ooh I'm so excited - I usually kill threads - never started one that came up in "most active" before

Should have known, just start a thread with bodily functions...

Pump is vile - makes me think of masturbating not farting (hope that's not just me...)

So for those that fart, do you/DCs also shart?

DD says 'fart' quite a bit, her Dad helpfully taught it to her. I must admit to not liking it very much but there you go.

I did try and get her to say 'blow off' instead with limited sucess. However, she also calls them 'air biscuits' which makes me crease up with laughter.

I don't children using the word either. My parents considered it a swear word!

My DD uses the term poo burps..quite like it!

My DC's say botty-pops....or fart. Class.

What is the grown-up word for a bogey?

We call bogeys 'bats' as in 'bats in the cave'.

I'm always saying to DH 'you've got a bat in the cave my love'.

We say fart occasionally, but mostly call them trumps. (no idea why really)

We also say "who trod on a duck" which always gets DD1 laughing.

There is nothing wrong with fart which is, surely, by anyone's standards (however exacting) an extremely mild expletive.

YANBU! I was raised that "fart" is a rude word, so I'm raising my dc the same. We break wind - dc sometimes bottom burps but they've got that from school playground - yay, school fees well spent

"trumps, botty burps, blow off, parp etc."

How is fart any worse than these?

Back in the 70s legend has it that British Gas once ran an energy saving campaign and the slogan was 'Save Gas - fart in a tin'

Stewie Mom - I happily use correct terms - DD said that her bit that's not a willy was sore so I told her it was a vulva, for instance (though I didn't bother to say that a willy was a penis) but by that term then surely I should be saying "I've been flaturlent" rather than "I've farted". What is the biological term for "a fart" please somebody?

My 4 yr old says 'farty'. I've never understood why people think fart is particularly rude. All the alternatives are stupid and 'wind' sounds like something my nan would say.

HM, do you never use the term fart arsing around?

I have a feeling the word begins with e but I could be totally wrong

We use fart, guzzed, parped and stood on a small mallard. My ds finds farts hilarious.

It was however considered rude when I was a kid. My Mum says pump.

I do think fart is a little vulgar - but then surely describing flatulence in any arena outside a doctors surgery is surely de facto vulgar so what is the point in handwringing about it?

we say fart in our house

once daughter said in front of old auntie type relative who worries a lot
she said

' you can't say fart she'll get teased at school!'

dd ( 2 at the time) just laughed

also my dh onces farted at school during chapel( catholic school) age 9 and made to have detention - how mean is that?

I always thought fart was quite posh, I must be very common indeed. I always remember when I was a (very prudish) child a very well spoken middle class neighbour of mine shouting out to her children, ' which of you little farts has just pissed on the bathroom floor!' I was a very shocked 8 yr old. We weren't allowed to say Fart or piss, only trump and wee, I still feel like I'm being naughty if I say them now!

Oh, and my dh says'trod on a duck'

Ds tells us when he's farted, and he's 22 months. [proud mummy emoticon]

I would disown him if he said "blow off" instead. Particularly if he used it as a noun.

It is not acceptable in our house!

PMSL at 'trod on a duck', though...