Really dumb potty training question

Socialworkgirl

If you taught your kids anatomically correct parts from the beginning, what did you tell your daughter she pees out of? One of the reasons I am asking is she has a book that uses the term pee pee but I want to replace it with something else when I read it. Vulva? Even though that's not exactly correct? Urethra? But that just seems to make things overly complicated? I feel like there is a simple answer to this that I am not seeing...

Twiggymommy

With Troy we just said penis so maybe vagina would be the easiest way to describe it?

zbeesma86

We taught Z vulva.

I would probably just stick with vulva until she understands more?

Then once she's older and more interested in the inner workings of her lady business show her a diagram of it and where the pee comes from?


You can tell I haven't thought this through, right?

Socialworkgirl

zbeesma86 said:

We taught Z vulva.

I would probably just stick with vulva until she understands more?

Then once she's older and more interested in the inner workings of her lady business show her a diagram of it and where the pee comes from?


You can tell I haven't thought this through, right?

Yeah, I guess this is probably the right answer for us too.  I am probably overly worried about doing this right because my parents' basically just avoided talking to me about anything that happened between my knees and belly button ever and seemed to prefer that I didn't have any idea that sex existed.  I'd like to not repeat that cycle

Socialworkgirl

sing4mysavior said:

And while potty training, we never "named" what she pees out of? Just..."you pee on the potty...pee goes in the potty....wipe from the front to the back."

Yeah, that makes sense too. I think it is the darn once upon a potty book that is tripping me up. Someone gave it to her and she doesn't even like. Maybe it will just disappear.

Socialworkgirl

The girl version says you have a pee pee to make wee wee... Ugh...

Angela814

We use vulva too, but more in the 'wipe your vulva' sense. I haven't needed to be any more technical than that yet.

lexusolsen

mamaalysson said:

NandaB said:

But you don't pee out of your vagina. If you're going to use a "correct" term, please use the actual correct term. Imo saying vagina is worse then "peepee" because it is the actual name of a part down there, just the wrong one.

Its like saying you drink with your nose, becaise its on your face and close to your mouth

I was thinking about this some more, and I guess we use vagina because we don't really talk about where the pee comes out (hasn't come up, I guess?), but more about taking care of the area as a whole (wiping, etc.)  I guess vagina has just become our catchall, because it seemed confusing to give her too many words.  But, yeah, maybe we need to get more specific.

We say vagina because it seemed more complicated to start naming individual parts. But she hasn't asked where pee comes from so we are reminding her to wipe or asking why she has her hand there. For a while there she got her butt and vagina confused and would use the terms interchangeably. The things you never consider before having kids...