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December 2010 Moms
EVM1216
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s/o bad touch
EVM1216
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Lately during diaper changes DD has been pointing to her belly button and asking "What's that?" then pointing lower and asking "What's that?" (repeat) I want to tell her properly what it is, but at the same time I feel weird saying "belly button... vagina... belly button..." over and over again. Plus, technically she's not pointing to her vagina specifically but to her nether regions in general. So I have been calling them her "privates" so as not to feel awkward and hoping that maybe one day it will click that her privates are private, kwim?
I'd love to hear what you all are doing.
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Re: s/o bad touch
We call the whole area his penis. I don't feel the need to say "balls" just yet.
My DH says balls and testicles though.
When DS grabs his penis & kinda makes the "huhhh?" sound, which means, "what is this?", I will either say, "that's your penis" or "that's where your pee-pee comes out of", followed by an anecdote like, "remember you did pee pee on the floor before?" lol. yeah.
Ha ha! And my kid says "hello!" for "pillow" which pretty much just brings that a funny full circle!
When DS starts checking things out during diaper changes, I say, "That's your penis." Usually followed by, "Yes, it's still there!"
This is us too.
I can imagine that it would be trickier finding a word for a daughter. I think technically the whole area would be called a 'vulva', but really, who uses that word?
This is one spot where DH and I differ. I say "penis" and DH calls it a "ding ding."
When my cousin's son was a toddler, she taught him the correct terminology. She said that if he ever had pain or was hurt there, she wanted him to be able to tell a doctor (teacher, school nurse, etc), what was hurting, and not make the nurse guess what a "ding ding" was. Plus, my cousin is a nurse, so she is super comfortable with anatomically correct verbiage.