to think there is no gig deal in 6 year olds calling a penis a penis and a vigina and vigina?

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Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are children going to be damaged by knowing these 'technical terms'........I don't think so!!

LOL Monkey - and very true!

Is it just me or does anyone else think vulva when someone tells you they drive a Volvo, and then have to fight the urge to snigger behind their hands??

The external parts are called the vulva - the vagina is the internal part. I see no reason why children shouldn't know the proper names - they don't refer to their hands as fingies or their feet as peddies do they?

hercules - my breath and power to type was taken away by the baps, tits, boob milk thread!

Agree - I think I prefer my 2 year old to talk about his sore bottom if he gets nappy rash, rather than his buttocks, gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, gluteus minimus or his anus. Not budging here either!

You're a weird lot.

This is just a good taste issue though isn't it? It can't do any harm to a child calling his penis his willy (or in DS's case, his dinky (?)), surely. I don't really like to hear the anatomical terms from kids, actually I'd rather not hear them from adults either frankly. But that's because I don't want to be fagged having conversations about my or anyone else's nether regions tbh.

I have no qualms about telling my dd (4) that her 'look at my hole mummy' is called a vagina, but her brother's penis will always be a willie

DS calls his a willy, and mine a vulva.

I quite like fanjo (but never use it with DS), but can't stand the rest of the cutesy words for female external genitalia

I hate fanjo,more than just about any alternate word for one's vulva.

How do you refer to the part the wee comes from (ie the opening to the urethra)? IME this is a much neglected part of the anatomy in terms of anming, yet of more interest to my DD than her vagina...

We use lay terms for other body parts dont we? So why not your err hmms (as I once called them when i was bout 5!).

Its like baby talk, its fine and it doesnt make kids grow up saying moo cow and brum brum.

My dd will not be budged from wee hole, poo hole and baby hole BTW, despite my best biology teacher efforts.

I call it "the opening where the wee comes from"!

Does anyone else have a DD who likes to try weeing standing up?!

FallenMadonna - how about the bit the wee comes from for the bit the wee comes from (works for me, although I am sure there are some lentil weavers who talk about the opening to their urethrae)?

That'd be the urethral opening/orifice or urinary meatus.

my dss says vagina and penis (aged 12) and makes me cringe but pleased that he is so openly using these words without cringing himself.

Seeker, Im afraid you are wrong, my daughters feet are called tootsies of course. She knows full well they are bloody feet, but who wants to be a walking sodding dictionary, when you can be cute with curly hair like an angel [emoticon for fingers in ears lalalala]

I know - I just have to deal annually with a bunch of children who are unaware that they don't wee out of their vagina. There is a lot of emphasis on the vagina I think, at the expense of other female anatomy, and people on here have been referring to 'it'... I rather like my DD's take on it really.

LOL forgot to mention, now you are on the subject of wee holes, my mums got a eurostomy (sp?) bag, so of course empty's it (wees as far as a 2.5yr old is concerned) standing up. Now that really throws the poor kid, and mummys a freak for weeing sitting down!

It's amazing how many grown women believe that urine is excreted from the vagina.

Now your shitting us? Really?