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...)

Farting is classy, trumping is something Hyacinath Bucket would say.

Fact.

I was brought in Oxford so know a thing or two about posh people and even more about try hards .

fart is quite a nice word. what is the differnece between parp and fart? Very little interms of rudeness levels

Fart is indeed very onomatopoeic - frt (little escape), faaaarrrrt (big one)

I started a thread like this yesterday - dd has come home saying it - im not a fan - it was a 'naughty' word when i was younger - i am trying to relax the fart word but find it a bit unsuitable for my 6 yr old to be calling my dh fart head and the likes.... apparently her teacher uses it though and read them the fart rhyme from horid henry....

I dont mind Fart really, but we "pump" in this house!

Maybe when DS is at school things will change!

no no no to pump that is very wrong!

Where do you stand on toilet, noonki?

oh loo surely

where do you stand on toilet?! Don't you know you should never stand on a toilet, you might crack the seat!

I was brought up to say loo and have a vague feeling that toilet is a bit nouveau riche (mind you, my family is not riche in any state, form or timezone, so I don't know who I am to pronounce)

bottom burp is awful

Toilet or Bog im afraid of ocassionally 'The John' if DP is farting about (snurk)

I find it worse when i with a non farts are funny family, especially when one of them farts loudly and the all just carry on the conversation and im sat in the corner shaking with laughter practically choking becuase im trying not to......

I lead a very sad, sad life...........

Boff is such a posh word, it was only used by boarding school kids when i was young.

I fear i am as common as crud, oh well......

"boff" to me means shag.

As in "do you think he's boffing her?"

Never heard it used to mean fart. I am southern - I wonder if it's a regional thing.

And I have never never heard pump . I would assume quite wrong things if someone said "sorry I just pumped" - blurgh.

theyoungvisiter I think pumping is something you do when you're boffing

definitely sidge

Or else I seem to remember from my Nancy Drew books that she was always pumping people for information, which also sounded a bit dodgy. She could have just paid cash for it like a normal P.I.

LOL - must have missed out there, obviously my mum confiscated Nancy Drew books!

Op, I think YANBU, I will proudly stand up and say, I think fart is wrong, we should all use the word pump !!

Don't flame me, we are all entitled to our own opinion

My DD is 11. It's not the word "fart" I am worried about now. It's the word "fuck". Which gets used a bit too frequently.

I have never heard Charlie or Lola break wind, you must have trained them very well, MTCAL, or is it a special diet?

• have you never noticed, I never give them beans ??

As children we couldn't even refer to wind!
We said, between ourselves "guff" or "blow off", or gave them categories. "piffy but whiffy" or "silent but violent" etc.

When our son does it we say trumpet.

In the bath, my daughter says she's having a jacuzzi.

My Daughter and partner fart.

The dog does botty-barks.

I do not pass wind, natch!

I will be using "stood on a duck" though. Hilarious!

OMG, Guff used to be one of my favourite words (just hilarious - just like when I first heard someone use 'shat' as a past participle)- can't believe I'd forgotten about it!

Must admit we never used Fart in my family, it was Trump (which always felt a bit cringey), so I have been a bit reluctant to say it in front of DD. However DH, the squeamish one in our house, revels in saying it, so I have had to loosen up. We do like to laugh at farts, and often say Farty-pop-pops in deliberate silliness. And botty-bot-bot, etc.

I will save 'Who Stood On A Duck?!' for a particularly quacky one, and everyone will think I am a comedy genius

Fart is fine. YABU, methinks.

DS (4) talks about farts (a lot), and his friend has introduced him to the word 'parp', which seems to really tickle their fancy. My dad, in pseudo posh voice, calls them 'gaseous escapes' - mucking about of course, not in normal speak! DS finds this funny too and it's a giggle to hear it coming out of a four-year-old's mouth.

I am quite relaxed about words of the 'fart' ilk, even very light, in-context wearing - but am tough on teaching when and where it is and isn't acceptable.

I don't think I'm over the farts-and-toilet-humour-are-rather-amusing phase myself.

Tom (almost 3) always grins if he or someone else farts, lol. He loves stepping on his whoopee cushion!

I was never allowed to use the word as a child as I was brought up to think that it was a swear word . My 10yo Ds uses it and I object and ask him not to each and every time, but he still does.
YANBU.

My mum prefers the term 'making smells' as in 'the man in the seat next to me on the plane kept making smells'

She has a very delicate disposition.

I fart. DS does 'ripplers' thanks to his father