What word do your children use for female genitals?

[frannyf]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but this is becoming an urgent issue in our household. Ds is 2.5 and has just started asking "Where is your willy, Mummy?" I told him women and girls don't have willies...and then froze.

I don't want him to think that girls just have an empty area where a willy should be, I want him to realise we have our own special bits, but I cannot settle on a word I feel comfortable with.

"Vagina" is so medical. "Flower" and all those sort of words seem too cutesie. I feel "fanny" is the right equivalent to "willy", and did try it, but I just cringed saying it to ds and felt even worse when he repeated it. I obviously did not sound convincing anyway as he has reverted to calling it a bottom. Help! Sorry if I have rejected your family's choice of name by the way, I don't think any of them are wrong or anything, just don't feel right saying them myself. Am I hopelessly uptight?

haven#t read all this thread but am already rolling about laughing. DH insists on telling the girls they've got goolies - on the inside - technically he's right but I fear it could lead to awful confusion.

Fanny is definitely a bit rude round here. Would you say it to your mum, aloha? How about granny / school teacher etc.? Can we have a county by county breakdown of whether fanny is, or is not, rude? With charts like a Peter Snow type of thing?

ahhh, goolies - that brings back memories! I don't think I've heard anyone use that term for years! Come to think of it ds has never asked what are those called (or maybe he has only asked dh).

fanny's a bit rude to me (Derbyshire upbringing?), but this thread has convinced me to introduce vulva. I think...

Fanny. Shes 18 months and into body parts. 'Simon says and all that. I don't include Fanny in that though. But she likes to point to EVERYTHING and name it.

No your right fanny is a bit rude.

'Filthy axe wound' would be far more suitable. Will change

Not vulva- peolpe can't be going to use vulva- I would be PMSL at vulva!

Used to use Noo noo as recommended by a friend of mine but then saw vacuum cleaner on Telly chubbies is called noonoo so thought might be confusing.

its teletubbies isn't is . dop.

Fanny is a bit of an odd word in terms of usage IME.

In hte North of Scotland my DF used to refer to us 3 girls as fanny 1,2 and 3!

When we moved to the West Coast the word clearly had a different connotation and I think many people had him down as some kind of child molestor!!

I would say the word fanny to my mum no problem

I just can't see it as rude!! To me its the equvilent to willy!

Yes, say fanny to anyone (anyone I was discussing a child's genitalia to anyway!). Exactly the same as willy IMO.

My nan always used 'mary'? Dont know where that came from. Think I prefer that than fanny tho. Oh I would just die if my DD shouted Ive got an itchy fanny!

Or what about 'Lady Garden' PMSL first time I heard that!

How about "flaps"?

Tanzi - grimace - horrid horrid

Willy for penis
Minnie for vagina
Boobies for breasts
Worked ok for 20 year old ds1 who has a healthy respect for women and will be used for ds2 and dd1 whe she arrives.
I'm amazed that some do not have a family name for a vagina. DS1 asked when he was about 3, where his friend's willy was, after she had an emergency wee behind a tree.I told him she doesn't have a willy she has a minnie. I had wonderful delight and fun re-telling this story to a waitress at a restaraunt the other week. However the 19 year old minnie owner and 20 year old willy owner did not find it as funny. Oh the joys of being a parent, you get your revege sometimes!!!

I've heard a lot of people use the word fairy.

My 9 year old nephew calls his testicles his "Jacobs"!!

Oh yes, Jacobs crackers = knackers lol .

Jacobs! Brilliant my friends little boy is called Jacob.

DP sarcastically came out with piss flaps once, was also called a rodent or a rat where I am!

I'm in Derby and fanny isn't considered rude, it's the same as willy. As this rate i'm just going to keep on calling DS's Mr Winkle

we used nu nu ,,,[before telletubbies]

Bitsy

My dd came up with 'bot-bot' when she was about 2 which we quite happily went along with cos it saved us a conversation! Think most people would realise what she was on about if they needed to know. she knows that babies come out of ladies bot-bots and probably thinks that wee does as well but will enlighten her when the question gets asked.

Still haven't got a word for ds's testicles though. He asked the other day and I fobbed him of with 'Oh it's just the other bit of your willy...' but will need a word soon me thinks. LOL at Jacob's. DH favours love-spuds if we can't come up with anything else

Should I say that bitsy has cottoned on and not only do I use for dd but my friends and I now use it all the time. Even dp uses it now.. although he also uses faffalina (WTF)

I like jacobs!!! Am seriously considering teaching them jacobs as we dont have a word for testicles so far, think dd considers it all to be willy and ds is too young to notice whats there, he just likes to wiggle it!