"PUFF-EDD!"; My 3 year olds made up swear word? How do I deal with it?

[Dragonbutter]

He grunts PUFF-EDD at people in an aggressive way. I've asked him what it means, he just says his friend says it at nursery.
It bothers me even though i don't know what it means?
What do I do?

I remember when my dgs was three we took him to see Santa at a garden centre. There was a pen around the grotto with various small animals roaming. I suddenly heard little three-year-old utter "Oh my God!" and practically leapt into my arms. It was a small wild boar type of animal snuffling round us. He had never said this before and, to the best of my knowledge, he never has since. Was quite funny at the time though. It was so apt!

lol i sounded it out
I told you that ds2 called osmoen "you wanker". ( in jest)
we were very suprised.

to say

the least

i sounded it out. that's class.
rofl.

my dcs have come up with 'bonky-head' as fave insult, whether in jest or anger, which to me is perfectly acceptable.

DD (6) did call me a 'tit' the other day
which led to severe consequences followed by a written apology (of her own accord)

We do not allow 'stupid' or 'shut up'
altho I (rightly) get told off for saying 'shut up' occasionally

Sisters youngest son has been somewhat 'corrupted' by his older brothers (13 year age gap). She has staved off the rot by convicing him the phrase is 'Pocoyo' - anyone guess what older brothers were saying?

"Uksake" unfortunatley!! i highly suspect it's from "Fuck's sake".. luckily she now says Goodness sake (udnersake to b precise) it is quite cute the way she manages 2 time it perfectly, lol for example when we ask her to tidy up

Hi Guys

this thread is hilarious, especially the one about the fat controller!

sorry to laugh, but despite nearly 11 years of parenting I still haven't managed to keep a straight face when a naughty word comes up, i'm hopeless! fortunately I don't really swear anyway, and I tell DP off if he does so the kids know it's wrong and haven't taken it up as a hobby yet!!
I agree with all those who say ignore bad language in little ones, who cares if you get the odd funny look. small children really do love the cause and effect thing, after working with (and bringing up) kids for yonks, i've found it really does not pay to make a deal of it

We had the Fat Controller/Fat C*t or even Fk C*t troller when DS1 was about two. You should have seen the look MIL gave DH and me. The worst thing was, it took us WEEKS to figure it out so it was a long time before we could placate MIL!

DS1 is now four and came home from nursery REALLY cheesed off because a little boy called him sexy - because it was rude!

I like PUFF-EDD though. When DS1 first started nursery, he used to say WANKUP when he was annoyed - just tried to ignore it and hope he never said it in public.

My DD, who is nearly 3 is calling everyone a "silly bot bot" - no idea where its come from, but its not too bad, we just ignore it in the hope that if we don't make a fuss she will stop saying it.

Now - she does get told off for saying "whatever" - which she may have picked up from me

4 year old ds was spockeye, we have no idea where it came from or who or what spockeye is/was. After initially saying what did you day and listening to him, we then ignored it and it seems to have disappeared.

I called my mum a daft twat when I was 7. We had just moved to yorkshire and I thought it was the yorkshire version of twit...

Yorkshire caused my first unwitting lapse into bad language. As a young teen I was quite suprised at how shocked my older bro was by my use of a word picked up from a James Herriot book - now what could be more wholesome? How was I supposed to know that 'bugger' was anything other than a word applied to a cow as in 'tha daft owd bugger'?

ha. My now five year old used to huff "Huh! Move it!" - like one of the lemurs from Madagascar. Only, he used it as an expression an anger, disgust, and disgruntlement at whatever I was saying.