Nose-picking, burping and other nasties...

[Frieda]

Where do the rest of you stand on these? I have to say, I've been pretty laissez faire up until now (ds is 4), but when my mum came to stay recently, I noticed she was often picking him up ? especially on the nose-picking, saying things like, "that's not a very nice thing to do".
While I've always been firm about things like please and thank you, asking to get down from the table, I feel a bit unsure about how to approach what are, after all, everyday bodily functions. What do you all do.
(Honestly, everyone, this is not a dodgy thread! I'd seriously value all your opinions! )

I don't mind burping - it's the hysterical giggling afterwards that pees me off.

And I can live with farting, apart from the smell (although we have great fun in the car in muck-spreading months - "OK! Who was that? Own up!" )

Nose-picking is just a fact of life - "please don't do it when I'm looking". Your mum is right, it's not nice, but what are we going to do about it??? (Anybody reading this board who doesn't do it?)

My daughter is a charmer, I had a drink of fizzy pop the other day and I belched afterwards, like you do, dd1 looked at me and said 'what do you say mummy', I said excuse me, she just turned looked at me and said no you say 'Pig'. What can you say

I've just been talking about farting with dh (!) as dd1 has picked up on the word and it horrifies my parents ('I did a lickle fart' she announced). Is it rude? I can't think of an alternative that isn't worse, or plain twee (passing wind, popping off, guffing...). What else can you call it?

I'm afraid it's guffing in our house. And I'm also afraid there seems to be an awful lot of it!

GUFFING???? Never ever heard of that! Round here there is a lot of trumping, I'm told, and some families toot. (My parents found "blowing off" acceptable...honestly!)

babster, what is your DH's problem with farting? Good old anglo-saxon plain speaking!

A child I used to know called it "the breath from my bottom" which is sweet but a bit long-winded - oops!

Ooops, sorry, babster, not your DH!

It's as I suspected. Farting is best (in a vocabulary sense, not as a lifestyle ). My parents must be strange. In fact, they don't like the word 'poo' either - when we were little, we had to call it... wait for it... GRUNT! (I really should have changed my name for this. Blame the wine for admitting such stuff).

In my dh's family, it is called 'pump'ing. I don't like it, but don't have a better alternative. A friend of mine uses 'fluff', which is just ridiculous

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When ds was a bit younger and "broke wind", he told me he burped out of his bum (bless), Now whenever he does it he announces to anyone who will listen that he has farted and wether it was a big or small one. I have tried to tell him its "popped-off", "no mummy" he replies "I farted".

Chinchilla, When I come from "pumping" means something else, more enjoyable though

bottom burps!

Breeze, my brother's family call farts 'bottom burps' too!
We call a fart a fart ... the other day I was visiting an old friend of my mum's - a lovely old lady who has all sorts of quotes from the bible framed all over her house - a very proper lady. DS was sitting at the lunch table and said to her in a loud voice, "Ethel, I did done a fart, so I must say 'Pardon me' but I don't want to ..."
Luckily she laughed like a drain!!!!!

We call it farting too but I remember not being allowed to use the word as a child. Goodness knows why, I agree all the alternatives are twee etc. My sister used to say 'mum, I just blew wind down my chimney' bless. Nose picking I've never really noticed that much - maybe I'm just hideously unobservant?! Burping we call burping and say pardon me after we've done it.

We say popping off here, it sounds like we're the only ones that don't say fart. I remember getting told off by my dd for saying fart when I was younger, so perhaps it stems from that. My dm used to be known as Nanny Pop Off to my niece!

Windy Bops! I know silly isn't?! Oh well could be worse....!

Ooooh - how interesting !! I've been saying Windy Pops so far with dd (very Melinda Messenger) - but we ourselves say Fart !!! When I was a child that was not allowed and it was called "breaking wind" and my mother hates the word Poo too - that's called "Big Jobs" !!

So - I think I shall let dd say FART !!!! (Can you hear me mother ?)

Incidentally - my mother thinks pants is preferable to knickers !!!

Oh, no. This IS turning into one of those dodgy threads. Tech..... TECH.....!!

We alternate between farts and pops. On the subject of poo's, my mum made us call it 'Proper toilet' and it was only when I was older that I realised it wasn't what everyone called it, and how bizarre it was!!

Like scatterbrain we had to say Big Jobs. Cringe. Of course in the playground it was Number Ones and Number Twos.
I wonder when people started saying "poo" and "wee" in polite society?

oooh, cringe too at Big Jobs! Seem to remember it was always poo and wee when I was a child, although number 1s and number 2s seems to ring a bell so maybe not!

My kids came up with burp bum bums.

When my DS wants a poo he tells me he needs to do a "sausage", this came about the first time he did it in a potty and looked thats what he said it was and its stuck.

We call a fart, a fart in this household, but it does upset some people. Dd caused hysterical laughter at a creche she used to go to. Someone 'droped one' and one of the workers askes, rhetoricaly, 'What was that?' and Dd (aged 2) piped up, 'A big fart'. The staff thaough it was hysterical, but I did feel a bit embarased.