Over the weekend, I went on a retreat with 4th, 5th and 6th graders. One of the 6th grade girls, “Red,” was talking to me and one of the other chaperones about boobs, and she kept calling them “expansions.” At first we weren’t sure what she was talking about, but on further examination and after asking her what she was talking about, she told us her mom didn’t like for her to use the word “boob.”
And, I have this friend, we’ll call her…Hey You…who calls farts “breezes.”
A boob is no more an expansion than a fart is a breeze.
I call it like I see it, and wish you would too!
I agree with calling a spade a spade and calling poop well…poop. I have a cousin who refers to farts as “fluffs”. It’s kinda funny, but not at all descriptive.
We say when the son has pooped in his pants, there is some weather down under, or if it was just a breeze, it is a windy day in Australia. I think it is cuter and I hate that f word.
On poop…I’ve heard and/or used the following:
Downloading
Dropping the kids off at the pool
Logging off
Baking brownies
I think baking brownies is actually pooting. Yep that is right I said pooting. poot is a funny word.
I agree. Poot is funny. I also think toot is kinda funny. But, fart sounds a bit dirty, though I don’t think of it as an f-word, like some.
poot is a funny word especially when you accidently breeze at a store, your child hears you and then screams out, “Hey, you pooted momma!”
Toot is a funny word, so is teetee, one of my grandmothers always refered to peeing as teeteeing, even when we were all grown up. That is annoying.
Note: it says “Hey, YOU pooted” and not “Hey You pooted.” Hey You does not poot. She does not admit to breezing, and did you ever read my post about bubbles and grunny? http://thehuckablog.com/2008/03/27/the-library/
I don’t know. I think I prefer teetee to “taking a leak,” which is what my dad always says.
It’s funnier if you think that Hey You pooted.
I must say that bubbles and grunny have to be the strangest words for those actions as I’ve ever seen/heard.
I don’t have a problem with calling a spade a spade–for me it all depends on who I’m with. Children get something different from adults, and old people get something else still. Close friends get the worst of it, I’m afraid.
I dislike words like poot and tinkle and fanny (and, yes, breeze and bubbles and grunny and teetee). They’re just too juvenile. I’d never use them in conversation with an adult, and in general I prefer to speak to children like I would anyone else.