Words for penis and vagina.

Rachel5782

VCGolfNYC:

An interesting take on this topic...

https://www.today.com/moms/just-say-vagina-using-correct-body-part-names-empowers-kids-6C9551650

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/the-case-for-teaching-kids-vagina-penis-and-vulva/274969/

Yes, I agree with quite a few things in these articles.  We teach DS the proper terminology because god forbid he was ever sexually abused, I want him to be comfortable with telling us exactly what happened.  Yes, I'm a Debbie downer, but being a teacher, I've seen way too many abused children in my career so I know it happens more than people realize.

doodlyjane

My niece is 4. My brother and SIL  use proper terminology, but somehow she ended up calling her girl-parts her "lady"...I think she couldn't pronounce labia. I'm not sure. 

I don't think she's quite grasped the idea of a penis yet, as to my knowledge she has never seen one, and couldn't care less if boys are different than girls just yet.  

 I usually refer to genitalia as girl-bits or boy-bits, though the term hoo-ha (new to me since joining TB) is hilarious and will probably stick.

 My ex boyfriend called his boy-bits his "one eyed friend" and used third person to talk about it, like a separate entity. It was kinda creepy. :P

Mamamari79

Totally laughed out loud!!!

mestills

I use the correct terminology.  

swirl25

Haha...my 2 year old uses the proper words....as in she likes to identify who is male and who is female by saying "so and so has a penis/vagina!"