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Lady bits

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CoffeeAndCarrotCake · 07/01/2009 23:43

What are you teaching your DCs to call their private bits?

I don't want to teach her "vagina" (bit clinical for a toddler!) and think "front bottom" is a little odd. My favourite is "fanjo" after seeing it on MN, but I don't want DD to be chucked out of nursery for being rude!

Any suggestions?

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Tortington · 07/01/2009 23:44

tuppence?

don't know its origin - it might be highly unusable these days?

LynetteScavo · 07/01/2009 23:45

Ground

Hog

Day

dizzydixies · 07/01/2009 23:45

foof in this house

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LynetteScavo · 07/01/2009 23:46

Custardo - are you still deciding what to call your DD's "bits"?

Oh, and to cut a long thread short, it's VULVA, BTW.

LynetteScavo · 07/01/2009 23:46

Vulva

LynetteScavo · 07/01/2009 23:47

Vulva

LynetteScavo · 07/01/2009 23:47

Vulva

LynetteScavo · 07/01/2009 23:47

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solidgoldsoddingjanuaryagain · 07/01/2009 23:48

Twunt? No one will know what it means....

faeriemoo · 07/01/2009 23:48

DD1 (3) calls hers her wee wee, or her bum

LynetteScavo I think most of us know what the medical terms are but where is the harm in giving it a nickname for a child?

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LynetteScavo · 07/01/2009 23:51

Don't ask me, ask every body else who sceams Vulva every time one of the threads starts up. They will also tell you it is not a vagina - it is a VULVA!

I like Fanny myself, but at the risk of being seen as odd, I tell DD it is her front bottom.

TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench · 07/01/2009 23:52

We seem to have settled on fanny, but most of the girls at school call it a "minnie", which for some reason seems even more horribly coy and daft. Yeuch.

faeriemoo · 07/01/2009 23:56

"I like Fanny myself"

I like minge.

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CoffeeAndCarrotCake · 07/01/2009 23:56

Lynette - vulva is the external bits, vagina is from the opening on in. I can't really see that it matters which one we refer to. We could just as easily teach them "clitoris" or "labia" for a body part in that region, but I think "bum" or "gina" or "tuppence" would be more acceptable at nursery.

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CoffeeAndCarrotCake · 07/01/2009 23:57

I've also heard "sugarpuff"

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Tortington · 08/01/2009 00:01

I FARKIN larrrrrrve the term 'gina

think it v. pertinant considering the house in which we post and worship

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 08/01/2009 00:03

Cunt is adequate surely.

Tortington · 08/01/2009 00:05

but say it
cant

sounds better

lessonlearned · 08/01/2009 00:13

It's Auntie Mary (or fairy) and plonker.
I had thrush once and had an awkward conversation with the doctor cos she kept saying never mind your Auntie Mary, and I kept saying "that's easy for you to say but it's important to me!" Then I realised I was talking childspeak cos my Dd was with me.

DippyDino · 08/01/2009 10:58

My Dd 2.8years would very much like to know what that thing is that she occaionally prods in the bath.

She started off calling it her bum-bum, or little bum-bum, but this is now clearly inadequate as she in now under the impression that her clitoris is made of poo.

How this may damage her in later years I shudder to think.

So I may have to go with 'gina as well.

hullygully · 08/01/2009 10:59

under frontal nethers in this house

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 08/01/2009 11:04

Dd's is a mini or a min-min sorry .

Ds's is boy bits/bits/willy but he is pefectly aware that it is really a penis, I think there is no problem with slightly cuter names for little children.

sheena1 · 08/01/2009 11:04

my dd 2yrs 10mnths calls her nanny "gonna wash my nanny now " i find funny

ginnny · 08/01/2009 11:16

ds's call it a minny and they have willies (or tadgers!!)
You can imagine the hilarity when they heard that a family member had had a mini stroke