Comments on: Front bottoms and Wee-wees

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:10:20 +0000

One of my 3 year old daughter’s (male) friends recently came out with “boys have willies and girls have families” - pretty perceptive for his age I thought!

By: obsessed

obsessed — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:26:54 +0000

The problem with ‘vagina’ is that it’s wrong -I mean the vagina is called a vagina but not the bits that are more important to you when you’re a little girl -the bits that you can see and play with and whose functions have meaning in your every day life such as the urethra and the clitoris. Calling the whole set, vagina in my view is awfully phalocentric. I will opt for the Greek, ‘pipi’ it is.

By: Julie @ the Surrendered Scribe

Julie @ the Surrendered Scribe — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:08:50 +0000

I am biting my lip not to bust out laughing because it is bedtime and not everyone is asleep! I just yesterday of all things got out the Story of Me series with my 4 year old. I had visions that my entire week would be an echo of vagina, but thankfully, not yet…

By: TaunaLen

TaunaLen — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:52:55 +0000

I’m giggling here at “whistle” and the prayers for a broken “boy bottom”. Funny that I don’t remember terminology for private parts being an issue when I was a child. Maybe I’ve blocked it all from memory? We used the anatomically correct terms with my kids when they were little. Now I’m lamenting the fun we missed with words like twink and willy… Oh well.

~TaunaLen

By: childlife

childlife — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:00:12 +0000

We’ve just opted for the terms ‘girl bottoms’ and ‘boy bottoms’ with our kiddos. Our four-year-old little girl would get too creative if we got specific with terminology : ) She already feels compelled at bedtime prayers to ask God to ‘please fix my little bruv-ver’s boy bottom - it looks funny and I fink it’s broked.’

By: Beta Mum

Beta Mum — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:15:48 +0000

SingForhim - pee pee bum is a very logical name for it, and very funny! Re the song - I’m not in Australia, I’m in Blighty, and I haven’t heard of it. Sounds like another one for Hannah to avoid.

By: SingForHim @ Real Life

SingForHim @ Real Life — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:37:24 +0000

We’ve opted for the anatomically correct terms. However, one time, my 5 year-old couldn’t remember the name. She thought for a moment, and said, “um…pee-pee bum.” I almost lost it.

Lately, every time I change her diaper, my almost 2 year-old, points to it and says,”what’s that?” over and over. I end up saying Vagina about 5 times before she’s satisfied.

Do you sing the song, “I’ve been working on the railroad” in Australia? All I can think is the part that says, “someone’s in the kitchen with Dina…”

By: rilly super

rilly super — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:39:19 +0000

my husband thinks Clitoris is an island in the Aegean. Please tell me whom I should contact to send him to the same class as your son.

By: spymum

spymum — Mon, 07 May 2007 07:56:27 +0000

I’m laughing like a drain at ‘whistle’! I’m going to chuckle about that for the rst of the day!

My mother called it a ‘fanny’ and my youngest misheard and calls it a ‘van’!

By: dulwichmum

dulwichmum — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:02:48 +0000

How lovely and refreshing. I was raised a Roman Catholic, with three sisters, and my mother never gave it a name. It was never, ever, ever mentioned. I think I like the sound of a “twinkle” - so I shall tell my four year old tomorrow.