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Help dd 3.11 has started coming out with the grossest things and I am at a loss !!!!

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whatisthepoint · 09/02/2007 15:14

Hope you can help! In the last 3 weeks or so my DD who is 4 next month has started coming out with the most grossest things. Hundreds of times a times a day its 'Mummy Mummy I've just stuck my finger up my bum and smelt it' or 'Mummy Mummy I've just ate my bogies' or 'Mummy Mummy I've just trumped on you' Have absolutely no idea what it going on, I mean it can be a dozen times in one hour she is continually coming out with these things !!!
I have tried telling her that its not nice to say these things etc, I'e tried ignoring it but this phase doesnt seem to be going away !!
Anyone else experience this ???
I know this sounds quite funny, but TBH is getting quite embarassing as she has started coming out with these things when we're out with people

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satine · 09/02/2007 19:41

LOL Aloha - that reminds me of a similar story Maureen Lipman once told about a friend of hers who was adamant that her children should use the correct terminology until one day when they had the builders in her dd shouted down the stairs "Mummeee! Simon is putting Hans Solo in my vagina"

3andnomore · 09/02/2007 19:56

lol @ Alohas story about the itchy Vagina....must say though, I hate it if my Kids call me by my first name (ms, 4 is trying that one at the mo), as I believe I have earned the title MUM by being pg and giving Birth and putting up with the lil darlings ;), but am definately all for calling things by the right name...ds is obcessed wiht baby's and Birth and he knows that baby tend to come out of the mummys vagina, unless the Baby needs to be born via the sunroof option ;)
lol @ cod, sorry, but bodily functions are just a normal thing and they go through these phases of talking about it, but it passes.
My 4 year old is into gross talk at time,s but hohum, I don't make it an issue, but if it's rude, tehn I say he shouldn't be saying that, and maybe we "explore" a less rude route

FluffyMummy123 · 09/02/2007 20:05

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shrub · 09/02/2007 20:11

could you try distancing her from the behaviour? for example if she is copying someone form her nursery you could say 'oh are you pretending to be sophie?'
or you could try pretending to mishear her by saying 'you stuck your finger in your gum/tum/at your mum?'
or sometimes absolutely no reaction at all might work so when she next says something rude, you show no reaction and then a minute later ask if she wants some juice etc.

peachespaige · 24/02/2007 10:48

lol Havent really anything to offer but thought this thread was very funny. My ds1 is 2.7 yo and recently sang at the top of his voice whilst running up and down an extreamly quiet but busy cafe "poo poo la la la, poo poo la la la, I done a poo" He hadnt but I could have died esp when he then went up to man and sang it to him!

Dior · 24/02/2007 10:53

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adath · 24/02/2007 10:58

I think they all go through this potty humour stage and I have yet to meet a parent that has come up with a solution to it I think it just passes.
I also think the proper word for genitalia thing is quite comical because everyone I know that has insited on this has had it backfire on them by a loud announcement in public always leading to red faces, funny from where I am standing though.

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