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Will/do you use the word "butt?" (clicky)
I remember growing up that my aunt wouldn't let my cousin say "butt". It was always "bottom" and "butt" was an off-limits word. Even when I was pretty little I remember thinking it was eyeroll-worthy. A butt is a butt. Come on.
I just found out that SIL uses "tushie" and doesn't let her girls say "butt". I don't have a problem so much with saying tushie if that's what you prefer, but it seems really dumb to forbid "butt".
Is "butt" a word you'd rather your kid not say? Or is this just silly?
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Re: Will/do you use the word "butt?" (clicky)
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We say bottom. For some reason, the word "butt" bothers me. I don't know why, but I just do not care for it. I know I am completely weird about this, but I will teach my daughter to say bottom rather than butt.
We aren't going to let the kids say butt. That's because of me, not DH. We weren't allowed to say it growing up, just like we couldn't say crap or sucks. I really do understand that it's not a bad word, but it's honestly somehow ingrained in me that it's not for children. I can't get past it. We use bottom, rump, heiney, and in honor or Jewish DH, tuckus (sp?).
We aren't going to let the kids say butt. That's because of me, not DH. We weren't allowed to say it growing up, just like we couldn't say crap or sucks. I really do understand that it's not a bad word, but it's honestly somehow ingrained in me that it's not for children. I can't get past it. We use bottom, rump, heiney, and in honor of Jewish DH, tuckus (sp?).
I don't use the word butt but not for any reason. I use bum and coolie. I am not really understanding the word being forbidden though. But this is the bump.
I'm giving up swear words (at least around the girls) when the girls are a bit older.
I will not be giving up the word butt. It is not a swear word and it is not a "bad" word.
Fuckings.
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We use "hiney" just b/c when we started refering to it we were tellinghim to "sit on his hiney" when going down a slide so it stuck. One word we have worked to replace is "fart". When I was little we were never allowed to say it, my sister and I used to say "squeek", lol. DS can say "toot, toot" when he farts. And yes "toot, toot" was on the very short list of words I gave the pedi @ his 18mo appt.
ETA: but "butt" is not forbidden...
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This is us too except we also use tuckus
we say 'lets go change your butt' and SO calls me and LO 'stink butt' (we arnt stinky just a nickname) and i call SO 'fuzz butt' (no explanation needed)
but when refering to her actual body part i say heine...
now thinking about it that is kind of confusing and i dont really want her to call anyone a butt...its going to be intersting trying to get SO to stop calling us stink butts lol
This, exactly. Although I have been known to say they have a nasty_ass and let's go change it. And when they were tiny for some reason we started calling a diaper change "getting a new butt." Haven't called it that in awhile though. The things you find funny in the depths of sleep deprivation...
Yep, we use whatever we feel like at the moment. All of these and rump, tushie, etc.