In our house, Its always been her "love" and his "pee pee" and then of course the hiney. However once she turned 7, and started talking babies, we said to her "do you know what your love is ACTUALLY called? It has a super funny sounding name.. Its a Vagaina, and his pee pee is called a Penis". this of course cracked her up, and she still giggles every time I say Vagina around her. So what do you call private parts with your kids?
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We also say hoo-ha and I hate it! I wish I could just say vagina! I want her to learn the right word!
In our house, we use "Penis", "Vagina" and "Hiney". Once, one of the twins asked what the hole in his hiney was called specifically and I told him "anus". None of them have started using that word though.
It's cute when I tell my 4yo DS to go potty and he replies, "But there's no pee-pee in my penis!"
We haven't actually thought of this one yet! I am thinking we'll be using proper names once baby is old enough, but I like the idea of starting with girl parts and boy parts.
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We use correct terms for everything for this reason exactly.
DD calls it ALL a "butt" front and back.
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DS says "weenie". He knows its his penis, but thinks its funny watching me cringe every time he refers to it as his weenie.
Girl parts haven't really come up in conversation yet, but I'm sure it will soon. And he will learn the real name for that too (not that he will use it, but at least he'll know it).
I don't know how or why, but her V is her "tooty" and her butt is her "booty". I would get a big ole side-eye at daycare or from friends if my 4 year old ever called her "parts" by the medical terms. People are extremely prudish in the South about this sort of thing. She's never seen her Daddy naked, but I am sure has seen a weiner or two at daycare.
She has inspected mine thoroughly in the shower and always is confused by the hair. She thinks I am pooping out the front....
Um we'll be calling them vaginas and penises from the start.
I'd rather have a kid yell out "PENIS" in a store being silly than wee-wee or something.
Also, my SIL has her daughters call it their "front butt" and that just seems anatomically confusing....
This but we say bum.
They may also say front bum & back bum. We do use the correct terms but my girls still refer to them as front bum & back bum (they came up with that on their own.) We have not had to talk about any boy parts yet, but we will use penis.
My stepson is 8 and just recently learned the real name for girl parts. I had no idea that he didn't know it. I try not to over-parent because I'm the stepmom (he does live with us full time tho) and he was showing me a map of China and then said vagina. I asked him if he knew what that meant and he said no. I was like "well I can't pass this opportunity up" and told him what it was. I also told him not to be embarassed that I told him, at least he won't say it around his friend without knowing what it is!!
I call my 1 year old's parts a "peeper". I will teach him the correct name when he can say it and understand. I have no qualms about using the correct names for body parts.
Although we do jokingly refer to the bottom as a dupa in our house. It means butt in Polish.
Girls: Lady Bits / Privates
Boys : Man Parts/ Privates
My girls (3 and 4) know the proper names but they call it a gina. They just shortened the word because it is easier to say.
Funny story : I babysat a friends little boy for 2 weeks last fall so she could go to Cuba. Her son is only a couple months older than my youngest. The first night I put all three of them in the bathtub together. When I turned around to grab a towel off the counter my oldest says "Mommy, Cody is touching his tail". LOL. I explained to her what it was actually called. They still call it a tail but if you ask them what it is actually called they say penis.... then giggle. lol
I use dupa too! Don't have any little ones yet but I'll probably use it with them too. My grandmother is 100% Polish.
this made me LOL.
For our 3yo daughter I we say bottom or butt and we say "girl parts" or "boy parts" or in my case since in the bath she was confused why I had hair and she didn't I told her I had "mommy parts" *plus you have to admit your girl parts are not looking like normal right now, right?
We have recently used vagina and penis in conversation with her because she has been visiting a friend of mine that is potty training her son. DD is potty trained but she knows that Ben has to "poke down his penis" when he goes potty, and that she doesn't have a penis because she is a girl.
Kids are smart. I agree with the proper name bit, but at the same time I think it is important that the kids are old enough to be able to say them and understand the difference. Maybe that comes at a different age for each child.
I talk about DD's vagina with her at every diaper change (especially this past weekend when she had rotavirus poo and it was like a yellow paste that I needed to get out of every crevice in her body!).
We also talk about her bummy because she has a mirror above her changing table and she loves to roll over and look at it!
And every night at bath time we talk about washing her vagina and bum (or bummy).
She also sees her dad naked every morning (all 3 of us get ready at the same time, we have a glass shower door). We don't talk about his penis but I imagine when NewBaby gets here we will (since he will have one).
LOL, that is hilarious!
This is our first but we plan to use the proper names. I don't think there's anything silly about them, and don't really see the point of not calling each part by what it actually is. I kind of think shying away from the terms puts a sense of embarrassment around the topic, which isn't something we want to do.