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

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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??

Bottom. Specifically wee-hole, baby-hole and poo-hole. When she is a little older (she is 2.6) I will use the correct words. Ds calls his penis a penis and that just about finishes off the other parents I know. Dd using similarly correct terms would cause hysteria. But I HATE euphemisms and cannot bring myself to use them. And why do the ones for female parts all sound like teletubbies? Yuck!!

pointydog, most of the French kids I know use 'zezette' and for penis, 'zizi'. But my mother used 'lune' (as in moon) for vulva, presumable descriptive (as in crescent) but as far as I know, just her family word and not the norm. I'm using zezette with dd, as thats what her French speaking cousins and friends say.

Jeez, xoxoxo, I know you are being a little provocative, but that has shocked me. Are you really happy for your dd's genitalia to be described as an absence?

I say to my ds (almost 3) that boys have a tail and girls have a tuppence and he also knows what his tail and testicles are.

tail and tuppence?? You couldn't make it up.

I like your French words, elibean. I lived in Belgium for a little while and a family there used 'prune'. I quite liked that but I suppose plums have a different meaning in English. The boys have the best words!

We also use front bottom and back bottom because, well, we all have one in one form or another.

I don't like twee names for girls' bits either but I really objected to calling it anything to do with bottom, as if it wasn't a body part in its own right.

We've used wee-wee and bottom for both ds and dd. Now ds is seven he knows it's a penis and calls it his willy. "Bits" gets used at bathtime - as in has he washed them all.
Dd has a bottom-wiping "song" which goes fanny...tushie, to remind her which way to wipe. She is three.
I think people like MI, Magnolia and I are in a minority here. I see soapbox says that minnie is the accepted school term and is often used, and it's obviously a popular choice. I really don't like it, or cutesy euphemisms. I much prefer fanny or vagina.

I think lots depends on where you live, what you hear around you etc. As a child, I thought 'fanny' meant bottom, and was similar to 'arse'. And I knew a girl called Fanny (sometimes wonder if she's changed her name since then!).

pointydog, plum......tempting...

Pamina, DD1 once asked loudly 'what's that on your fanny?' to which her father's most affronted answer was that it was his willy, thank you very much.

MI

This thread is really great

I use willy and meat balls for DS

For DD we use "dindle", but that's because that's what my sisters and I used to call ours. DD herself (aged 3) calls it her bum. DS calls it her front bum.

DH refers to them as their "old boy" and "old girl", which is quite sweet. Specially as old boys tend to be wrinkly

I think fanny is to American, it reminds me of ZZ Top songs, which were sometimes a bit offensive. I think the correct latin names are a bit too grown up. I wouldn't use anus, as I don't think DS and DD realise they have an anus - they just think of bums in the general sense!

Referring to it as a lack of something I think might create penis envy in future years??

not really.
It reminds me of that old cartoon in the style of 'love is' with the cherub type boy and girl.

Boy says to girl ' oh dear you have not got one of these' (pointing to his willie).
Girl cherub retorts ' no, but with one of these (pointing to her fanny), I can have as many of THOSE as I want'.

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I'm with sydsnow on that - I think 'fanny' just sounds obscene, particularly coming out of the mouth of someone so young (although, wouldn't even say that word myself!!!) - we call it a front bottom.

My mother is called Frances and for many years was called Fanny by all her friends .

We used mimi when I was a child, but I tend to go for fanny now. Used it in nursery though when DD's nappy was being changed and almost got the pair of us expelled ("that's NOT a word we use here"). Oh dear. Prefer something direct myself but DD (17 months) can't say vagina and I can't do volvo myself .

oh fgs "no willie"?!?!?!?!?!?!
words bloody fail me.
there's a thesis on female sexuality on each and every one of these threads, you mark my words.
vulva is a lovely word. like velvet.
NOT like tuppence.
don't mind fanny so much but I think my mother might blush to hear it...

harpsichordcarrier: front bottom for dd, willy for ds.

PMSL FrannyandZooey!

My neice call hers her widgie.
I'm very glad that with a boy its a bit more straightforward. Just willy and dangly plums!

I personally don't like fanny because it is a 'bad' word where I live.

My dd has always referred to it as her bottom but she knows the real terminalogy.