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Where is mummy's winkie?

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blanki · 27/12/2007 15:39

Ds is 2 1/2, he thinks that using the toilet/potty and showering/bathing are spectator sports. I'm sure this is not uncommon and its fine. BUT I was a little lost for words when I stepped out the shower and he was most alarmed because mummys winkie was lost! Was that ok for him to think, or should I be telling him something more intelligent at this age? Its just him and I and don't really want to hide from him, although I don't parade around naked!Any advice on that difficult journey please?
Also, sorry!, what is it pc to call our bits and farts?

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Bluestocking · 27/12/2007 15:41

I told my DS when he asked the same question at around that age that girls and women don't have winkles, we have a place inside to grow a baby instead. He was fine with that.

FrannyandZooey · 27/12/2007 15:45

Nothing wrong with him seeing you naked and asking questions about it

best to choose a name that everyone will understand - vulva is the correct name for what he is asking about and you can tell him that boys have a penis or winkie, and girls have a vulva.

Up to you with farts - we say trumps which doesn't sound so rude to my ear but let's face it, it is not a topic for polite conversation really

Bluestocking · 27/12/2007 15:46

We call a fart a fart! I think anything else is a bit twee.

VictorianSqualor · 27/12/2007 15:58

We say pump, but thats just because I dont like the word fart.
DS laughs at mummy not having a willy (or penis depending on if DD is behind him to say IT'S CALLED A PEEEEEENIS) I just said, Mummy doesn't have a winky cos she's a girl and nor does DD.

Bluestocking · 27/12/2007 16:04

It's funny, isn't it? To me, "pump" sounds far, far ruder than "fart".

FrannyandZooey · 27/12/2007 16:32

I think it is important to give the female parts a name

the implication that boys have this wonderful thing and girls just have....nothing.... is not great from the viewpoint of appreciating the female body, is it?

jetgirl · 27/12/2007 16:46

DD {2 yo) says I have a tail(!) and DH has a willy.

We say fart too. Kept quiet about this a t nursery though when another girl's mummy said to us 'x has started saying fart, don't know where she got it from. And she does pretend burps too!'

Guess whose DD was to blame for that too I blame the parents

Bluestocking · 27/12/2007 17:26

You are right, F&Z, and I have been trying to say vulva - but for some reason I find it really difficult.

VictorianSqualor · 27/12/2007 17:27

LOL, I just got out of the bath and DS told me I have a volvo.....

FrannyandZooey · 27/12/2007 18:20

I found it difficult too (was never taught a name to call my genitalia) but you just have to go for it

VS my ds says 'Valva' which sounds quite nice

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blanki · 27/12/2007 19:03

Cheers, do not want my lil man being disresprescectful re his mummy or indeed any other female. But this is not an un commen subject, what does one say!

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cornsilk · 27/12/2007 19:11

We had inset on this and the school nurse said to use the real names, 'cos chn don't have a hang up about it - only us adults!

VictorianSqualor · 27/12/2007 19:14

True cornsilk, but when your DD is sitting at the bus stop going on about vaginas and penis' (is it penis' or peni???) then the looks on peoples faces make the hangups us adults have with the words oh so amusing

cornsilk · 27/12/2007 19:21

Quite!

SpottyHamster · 27/12/2007 19:27

DS1 invented a phrase for farts. In the silent maternity clinic , a woman opened a very noisy zip on her bag. WHO MADE THAT BUM NOISE? He declaimed. The woman was not amused but some of the other patients were. No advice on other bits tho really, ours are both boys & say willy.

barking · 27/12/2007 19:29

My ds1 thinks I do have a willy somewhere - in his words I must have sat on it and squashed it

I don't like farts either, can't remember how it happened but we call them.......bottom pops

DarthVader · 27/12/2007 19:29

in our house both girls and boys have willys according to dd

Dynamicnanny · 28/12/2007 12:13

We always used blow off eg have you blown off? for farts when we grew up

Maidamess · 28/12/2007 12:14

My boys have a willy. And a secret willy which makes their sister scream and run off when they show it.

lottiejenkins · 28/12/2007 12:16

There is a wonderful set of childrens books which im buying one by one for a friends ds who is nearly 7. They are called Walter the Farting Dog, the little boy loves reading them..............

crayon · 28/12/2007 13:43

We have windy bottoms, willies, holes and dangly bits (testicles, obviously) - how twee. I think I need to re-name some of those actually.

ChubbyShcotsBurd · 28/12/2007 13:51

Ugh, trumps and pumps are soo ... twee, I'm a farter myself

JingleyJen · 28/12/2007 13:57

DS1 opened my legs one night whislt we were sharing a bath whilst and asked where my willy was - I said that I didn't have one because I was a girl and girls don't have willies.

I said bum at my friends house DS wanted his Bum wiping - DS1's friend said "we don't say Bum in this house - it is a bottom" I felt so told off!

We call farts trumps.

glaskham · 28/12/2007 14:07

farts are trumps, ladies bits are front bottoms, bums are bums, dd is now at the stage (20mths) where when it comes to bath time she's trying to grab and pull ds's (3yo) willy...he thinks its funny, but tells her off if she grabs it because its 'his'....and he keeps saying to her, 'dont pull my willy because i dont touch your front bottom, its not nice!'....and thats with no words given by us- he came up with it on his own...but when i told him only daddy's and little boys have willys and mummy's and girls have front bottoms he was devestated.....

our worst one was when he happened to come into the bathroom and see me whipping a tampon out to put a fresh one in....he asked why my bum was bleeding, did i need a plaster....i just had to tell him sometimes mummy's have poorly bums and that tampons (or special plasters) help make it better... then one day we were out and he found a tampon in my handbag pulled it out in the middle of a nice quiet family day and said this is mummy's bum plaster!!

Minkus · 30/12/2007 09:13

Lol at bum plaster glaskham!

We have pops for farts, boys and men have willies and girls and women have a foo foo.

Ds when about 2 looked at me in the shower and said "Dropped it! All gone" He thought I had been rather careless with my willy and misplaced it somehow.

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