to think that my dh encouraging my not yet 2 yo to laugh at his farting is rather gauche?

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dc can learn puerile humour in their own time, surely. Don't need coaxing into it

Am not liking the way the babble is sounding like 'didyaaaheeeeetha' when dh lets one rip. And the way ds is laughing at his own wind. Have heard my dh have this exchange with him. (if you can imagine dh saying 'Did you hear that?' in shocked kenneth williams voice)

Whadya reckon? Am I being a miserable old cow?

It isn't in public though is it 2rebecca? I fart too, and I am a lady!

Farts a good for a giggle in our house, but only when it is the three of us. The boy can just about melt the paint off the walls. I am so proud.

I think farting in front of other people is farting in public. If you want to fart surely a polite civilised person goes to the toilet?
My family members are more important to me and their opinion is valued more highly by me than the general public so I find it more important to behave considerately to them than to strangers.

2rebecca- ah, this is where we differ. I feel really embarressed if I let off a massive loud fart in a public toilet cubicle than if I ease a cheek on the sofa at home.

the walk of shame to the hand basin is so awful when you just KNOW everyone knows it was you.

Never claimed to be polite or civilised .

Though sometimes if the paint really is melting the offender will be sent from the room for other's protection.

Ah... pull my finger!! Dipping into the classics.

This is not just a boy thing. My DDs (3 and 6) think farts are hilarious. Although DD2 thinks they are hilarious if she or her sister do them, but if me or DH do one she makes big show and says really loudly "yak yak yak Mummy ... you're really stinky ... go and do a poo!!!!!" and so on. It's the discrimination that I object to. Surely my farts are funny too.

Children usually find parents farting funny-it doesn´t really need encouraging.
But if your dh is farting on purpose, sorry but that´s really infantile.
I think it´s really impolite to deliberately fart in front of others.

We are "toilet humour" family, we find Farting hilarious and i have just giggled and hurt my stomcah muscles reading this thread.

DP is the king of Farts in our house, its proably beucase he eats rubbish, my bedroom has the window open at all times otherwise my room smells like man farts.

Both DS1 and 2 find Farts funny although DS2 calls them perps, im not why.

We are a farty family but we always apologise and open the window if it's a real stinker .

I appreciate that not everyone thinks it's polite but I was gobsmacked at one dinner party I went to with my (all female) colleagues. Two of them were most disgusted when we started talking about farting in bed and said that they and their XH's had never farted in front of each other. I had to supress a when I pointed out that they may have been too polite to fart in front of them but that both had been happy enough to shag other women behind their backs.

Give me a farty faithful man any day

at a "farty faithful man"

I do love my dh!

oh yes - to have a really healthy relationship, one needs to be on "farting terms".

Holding 'em in just ain't healthy.

ds1 (3yo) makes farty noises with his armpit to make DS2 (18mo) laugh
DH is v proud

I prefer not to fart in front of my husband just as I prefer to go to the toilet in privacy. I don't go round work farting at my colleagues and giggling so why would I with my husband. Thankfullt my male colleagues don't all fart deliberately and giggle either.
You're welcome to all these juvenile vulgar blokes.
How can you feel passionate about a bloke who deliberately farts in your presence? I'd end up feeling like his big sister.

im with op

love word gauche

oh let your farts free!!
we love to be jejune! [hopes she is not mistaken and it is random foreign word night]

better an empty house than a bad tenant, my mother always said!