When my grand children were little, my daughter and son in law insisted that I didn't use phrases that weren't correct, eg not to answer them ' in a minute' because it wouldn't give them a sense of real time. So I did as they asked and usually said, I'd be ready in 12 and a half minutes, when really I'd be a minute!
But also not to use euphemisms, so when my grand daughter was in the bath age about 4 and we'd been to the beach, I wanted her to wash her 'lady bits' other wise she could be sore. Well what could I call it? I couldn't say what I called 'it' as a child and in fact all Welsh children called it this..... 'a tuppence!' Even now I think of it as a rude word!! So I said it was a 'Miffy' How was I to know there was a Rabbit book, whose name was Miffy!! And even worse a new family joined their church and their daughter's name was.... Miffy!
But I had told my grand daughter it wasn't a word you said out loud, and that was was frowned upon too, because it might give my grand daughter a sense of shame about her body.. I sometimes thought was my daughter my actual daughter??
Well fortunately in spite of her granD ma, as she always called me, my lovely grand daughter who is 31 next month, knows what time is, is confident with her self image and is amazingly successful as an Accountant, and happy and engaged to be married, some time next year. Grand mothers can be ok I reckon.
(What did you call it?)
Chrisxx
Front bum or undercarriage, don't ask me why, I have heard my daughter use the front bum to her own daughter.
ReplyDeleteOur family refer "private parts", which seems a reasonable term.
ReplyDeleteA teaching colleague could not attract her pupil's attention, and another boy said "He's playing with his Dinky , Miss" Thinking this was his toy car, she said "John, come here this minute and put your Dinky on my desk"...embarrassment all round.
We also said tuppence when I was little, we say foof now though, don't know why. My granddaughter who is almost 8 has been doing body parts at school and when my daughter said to her wash your foof she said mum it's not a foof it's a vagina, well she couldn't really argue that one could she 🤣
ReplyDeleteIt was "possible".. You wash down as far as possible, then you wash up as far as possible, then you wash possible.
ReplyDeleteMy Mum always said wash your girly bits, now I call them lady bits. My granddaughter aged 9 is doing body education at school. When I asked her what lessons she had that day, she said body education about our bits. But don't tell Grandad, he might be embarrassed! Xx
ReplyDeleteYour privates caught on in our family. That sounds weird….
ReplyDeleteYou know, I don't ever recall calling 'it' anything! But, then at my age perhaps I have forgotten haha.
ReplyDeleteIt was Mary, when I was a child.
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