Do you let your kids use the word "fart?"

I am totally cool w/ most things but for some reason I HATE the word! My kids don't say it, either. It's just an ugly word. I also laugh and so do they when they pass gas. I do think it's funny, too.

 

I agree... not that I'd be offended but I'd laugh. :blush: Plus I keep thinking of my son as a 13 year old or older saying he fluffed or tooted :laughing:

 

My grandpa loathed the word fart. Thus, I was raised without saying it, as are my girls. We say toot. I'm pretty G rated on words.. We don't say butt, shut-up, stupid, hate or a host of other words I've heard kids say. I have to make sure I tell the girls WE don't use the words, so they don't go around correcting everyone else who chooses to use them.

 

I agree that fluff is a silly word. So is toot. I think either one of them is less vulgar than fart. I know that my kids will not continue using this word as they get older. They've already tested the waters with the word fart and I asked them not to use that word. I don't think my kids are going to go off to college saying fluff. But they probably will go off still giggling when they do pass gas.

 

We say fart around our house. It's just not a big deal to me.

 

Agreed!

And this is pretty much how I feel about words like that. I don't really like the word and how it sounds but it's not considered a "naughty" word like swear words and such.

I love your wording of curiosity and I couldn't agree more!!!!!

 

We are more of a "toot" family than a "fart" family. 1) Fart does seem to have a more vulgar tone, and 2) The grandparents can't stand it. Out of respect for them, we have avoided "fart." But we do still giggle, no matter what it is called.

 

We use the word fart. Most of the times, nothing is said about the name of the sound, just me prompting them to say 'excuse me'. I try to quell fart jokes by not paying much attention. While it's working for fart and all fart related activities, I'm having trouble with burps. For some reason one of my guys likes to force out multiple burps and I very much dislike that and can't neutrally respond. I'm working on it.

I just looked up flatulence as related to fart. While it is a noun, the term for what comes out is flatus. Which rhymes with status. Which is a synonym of picture. Which is related to a fine art term of baroque. Which can be an architecural style and style is what defined the seven wonders of the world. So there you have it - a fart is on par with the seven wonders of the world.

 

We say fart around here. With as much gas that is in this house we really do not even mention them anymore.

 

This sounds like one of those silly bing commercials - search overload!!! :laughing:

 

I was trying to remember what my mom called it growing up. I think it was just "having gas" I know she did not like us to use the word "fart" . It was one of those words we would say quietly and giggle waiting for "the look" from my mother. By the time my youngest sister was old enough to talk about it, my mother had probably given up because there were 5 older siblings using the forbidden word. :laughing:
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Mine say toot.

 

I have 3 sons. We've had LONG discussions about "crude words" and "appropriate" and "offensive" and "polite company". I think maybe b/c they're older (middle school) I can trust their judgement more. They also can understand the "they're allowed to say that, why can't I?" concept more.

They used to have to pay a dime to the "offensive language jar", but one day one of their friends pointed to it and whispered (he didn't know I could hear) "what the f*&^% is that?" So, they're hearing MUCH more offensive things than I would hope. I count on them to know when to say it, though.

P.S. I know what you mean about hating certain words -- my pet peeve is "frickin'" and "Friggin'". We weren't allowed to swear when I was growing up -- not even d*(&, so hearing that from a young child just sets off my alarms. I put it on our list of crude words.

 

Those who claim to call it "the correct word"... what is the correct word? Flatus? You call it flatus? Or flatulence? Because passing gass is still a colloquialism I think. I just wondered what people think is the correct term for flatulence... also since we are at it, the vagina is the tubular tract between the vulva and the uterus, so if you use it for your daughter's vulva, you are not using the correct term but rather a colloquialism too!

We call it fart or gas or talking bottoms or barking spiders... whatever, a rose by any other name, you know? And we too giggle about it, and comment on it, because we comment on everything and there is nothing unnatural about experiencing flatulence. We also comment on who does the loudest ones (my sister!) and the worst smelling ones (my nephew) and who manages to make them last for like 12 minutes (one of my twins). And it is (clean, though on occasion smelly) fun, so why not?
We do try to avoid cruciferous vegetables before gymnastics class though because, even though we call it farts and talk about it, my kids even at age 3 and 7 know that it is just not nice to rip one into the silence of a full gymnasium.
M.

 

Thats exactly how it is in our house...They actually used to say "I have bubbles in my butt!"

 

I live with boys. I don't love the word but my boys do. :lol:

 

We say toot. I don't know why.

 

My boys say fart. I don't find anything wrong with it. Having a child with bi-polar disorder .. there are words much worse that I have to deal with on a daily basis.

 

I don't like the word....but my mother would have a cow if she heard anyone say it...so it is off limits. My girls call it "pooty" but there are all kinds of styles:

under the covers - Dutch Oven
quiet but stinky - Silent Violent
really loud - Nuclear Butt

One of my little princesses let out a little poot as she passed me going to be. I, appropriately, said "wow, that was stinky". She replied "Ya smelt it, ya dealt it!" - learned from my brother while on vacation last week.

I am pretty frou-frou - but potty humor at home doesn't bother me. Still....no "fart" said in my house.

 

So we took our Girl Scouts to a Pacers game this weekend and got to go on the Practice Court to shoot hoops. We were in a large group of people waiting to get on the elevators and someone picks that moment to pass gass. Leave it to my girls scouts to first off ask if it was me nice and loud. Then yell at everyone that it is rude to fart when their heads are down by everyones butts. Then we get on the elevator and the one little girl (at this time all the girls are holding their noses) says well whoever farted got on the elevator with us. :rotflmbo:

 

That is my big pet peeve. Why not name the part the kid can see and touch? Although my kids think it is funny to ask each other "Can I see your uvula?" since it sounds so much like vulva. "I'll show you my uvula if you show me yours." Giggle, giggle, crack up....... :rotflmbo:

"Fluff" makes me want to vomit a little. As does "glisten" for sweat. Once your kids go to school (public, private, homeschool group, whatever) they'll learn lots of different names for things. When my kids were young it was "putt putt" if you had lots of little farts or "pop" for a big one. Also "nose goo" for snot. What can I say, they're descriptive kids! :laughing:

You can only control the language your kids hear for so long. My youngest is shy and doesn't talk much (okay, at all) at school. But last week in church she surprised the teachers with her "big girl voice" when she shouted "Give me the fuc*ing doll!" She spends a lot of time in the backyard with her oldest brothers friends. I'm sure they thought it was humorous to hear her say that!

 

Yep, thats what we've always called it. Katie even says it.

 

That style is called "crop dusting" in our house. :lol:

My husband has made a strong effort of teaching the twins to go on a "fart walk," as in going into another room to fart instead of where everyone is.

 

My dad used to call them barking spiders. I thought he made that up!!

 

My response word for word. My oldest 2 really hate that I won't let them say certain words their friends are allowed to say. I just hate hearing my kids use such crude words, it makes me cringe inside. I could care less if other kids use the word, or even other words my kids are not allowed to. I have a whole list of "normal" words my kids cannot say.

fart
dumb
stupid
retarded
gay
shut-up
annoy (that's only because I became sick of hearing them say to one another "you're so annoying!")

That's all I can think of right now.

 

We say "toot." For some reason, I'd rather hear the other "f" word 20 times in a row before hearing "fart" once, and don't ask me why. haha

I am seriously giggling at "barking spiders," which I have never heard.