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Is it ok to use 'fanny' to describe girls bits to my toddler?

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Vindaloo · 22/08/2006 21:11

My DD is 2 and a half months and I was chatting to a friend about what words to use to describe boys and girls bits??

A friend uses 'nunu' for girls. For some bizaare reason I have started to say 'bits and pieces'!! thats sooo wrong, any suggestions or do you just say fanny??

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UselessMum · 24/08/2006 09:04

mu dd's nickname in Mini too...

not happy now...

I haven't come up to anything yet but DH is much better at this things actually, I'll leave it to him..

UselessMum · 24/08/2006 09:04

mu dd's nickname in Mini too...

not happy now...

I haven't come up to anything yet but DH is much better at this things actually, I'll leave it to him..

SydSnow · 24/08/2006 09:52

I would have thought using fanny for a girl was like using dick or prick for a boy!

cupcakes · 24/08/2006 09:57

We say fanny with dd but when discussing willies and suchlike with 6 year old ds we call it a vagina. This is not sex ed - just talking about how we'll know if the new baby was a boy or a girl. He thought we wouldn't be able to tell until it had time to grow it's hair.

EmmyLou · 24/08/2006 10:44

I have 3 dds and used to say 'girly bits' which has morphed into 'bits' for the older two. My best friend called it a 'diddle' with her two girls, much to my outrage and mockery...("Just how does your dd interpret 'hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle'?....") but somehow, with dd3, I started calling it her diddle and its stuck although pronounced "Didooow".

I just wanted a user friendly word for everything that wasn't her bottom. Oh dear.

Medulla · 24/08/2006 10:53

We use front bottom for DD who is 3 and when she is a little older we will call it her vagina - I think! I personally wouldn't like to use the word fanny

Nemo1977 · 24/08/2006 11:09

dont like fanny personally. we use either 'gina' as in vagina or ds sometimes says about dds big bottom and \little bottom..lol

riab · 24/08/2006 11:10

I'd use fanny for a girl and DS gets willy and bum,

I presoanlly think using 'cute' names for genitals is a bit odd!

Kazzaa · 24/08/2006 12:00

I dont really like the term "fanny"...we use minky and dinky kinda makes it cute

NomDePlume · 24/08/2006 12:02

I find fanny a bit coarse, tbh.

princessmel · 24/08/2006 12:24

We use 'wee wee bottom' as thats what my mum called it. And 'willy' for ds bits. I've never heard of 'minni' or 'minki' before though!

JessaJam · 24/08/2006 12:26

someone I know calls it a 'minnie' and a penis is a 'mickey' .... and that just makes me want to puke!

liquidclocks · 24/08/2006 12:41

What an education this thread is - never heard of half these words before! My mum always just used 'your bits' to describe down below so I'd have done the same - makes me glad to have boys though, will be sticking with willy, balls and bottom.

expatinscotland · 24/08/2006 12:43

It's 'lulu' at our house.

Thomcat · 24/08/2006 12:48

By DP uses the word fanny but I have asked him not to actually. I've told him to use nunnie
(but it's not pronunced the same as a catholic nun)

However she just calls everything in that are POO, so......

curlew · 24/08/2006 13:27

We dithered for so long with dd that we gor stuck with bottom for the whole area, which means that if she says'my bottom hurts" we have to ask "front or back?" She knows all the proper words, though. According to ds, he has a willie and two tentacles!

Don't like all the cutesy words for girls, though, but I don't like fanny either. And I think gash sounds awful!!!! Isn't it odd that there isn't a generally accepted word, though? Most people wouldn't have a problem with willie, but there just isn't a femimnine equivialnt. I could gallop round on a hobby horse at this stage and give a feminist interpretation - but I think 5'm too new to this forum for that!

curlew · 24/08/2006 13:28

We dithered for so long with dd that we gor stuck with bottom for the whole area, which means that if she says'my bottom hurts" we have to ask "front or back?" She knows all the proper words, though. According to ds, he has a willie and two tentacles!

Don't like all the cutesy words for girls, though, but I don't like fanny either. And I think gash sounds awful!!!! Isn't it odd that there isn't a generally accepted word, though? Most people wouldn't have a problem with willie, but there just isn't a femimnine equivialnt. I could gallop round on a hobby horse at this stage and give a feminist interpretation - but I think 5'm too new to this forum for that!

MoreSpamThanGlam · 24/08/2006 13:43

We use minnie and willy - as do most of the mums I know. Maybe its a location thing.

JessaJam · 24/08/2006 13:43

curlew...the feminist is rising in me too!!

JessaJam · 24/08/2006 13:44

so to speak!

hotmama · 24/08/2006 13:53

I find I refer to dd1's bits as wee-wee (for the front bits) and bottom. This is rather bizarre as this is what my mum used to call mine when I was little - they just were the natural words to me.

I hadn't used the word wee-wee for over 30 years.

I suppose we just use the words that we would feel comfortable with our lo's shouting across the supermarket - and we are all different!

colditz · 24/08/2006 14:17

I have always thought the opposite to willy is fanny. Nothing wrong with saying either.

SSSandy · 24/08/2006 14:23

We say vagina and penis. Nothing else comes naturally to me so that's what I always used.

We also say bottom or bum - and, oddly, poo hole and wee hole!

xoxoxo · 24/08/2006 14:26

my ds (3 and a half) refers to my dd's bits in question as her 'no willie'.
When he saw that she was lacking a certain vital piece of equipment (for that read plaything) that is of such value to him, he was devastated for her and almost wept saying 'oh no, you have no willie - poor you'.

Since then it's been called her 'no willie'.

Just thought that would help the hobby horse gallop a little bit faster.

pointydog · 24/08/2006 15:11

Well, when I was a kid 'minky' meant 'dirty' so we couldn't use that one!

I chose pum-pum because my friend lent me a Jamaican novel and pum-pum was the word for fanny. Bit of a racy book. Don't know if the word has any negative connotations in Jamaica but I liked it.

Are there any good 'fanny' words in other countries/languages?