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15 June 2006

Coochie coochie cooter! →[More:]So my mother-in-law tells me last night that my four year old "said the v word." And it took me a couple of seconds to process that she meant "vagina." Apparently, she found it offensive. It never occured to me that teaching my daughter to refer to her anatomy with proper terminology would be offensive. I'm tempted to tell the kid that, around her grandmother, she should refer to it as her "sin hole."
post by: jrossi4r at: 13:27 | 31 comments
Would the penis be henceforth refferred to as 'Serpent Of Evil?'
posted by jonmc 15 June | 13:29
'Serpent Of Evil?'

That gets me hot.
posted by jrossi4r 15 June | 13:30
That's wonderful, but I'm spoken for.
posted by jonmc 15 June | 13:32
Have her start referring to her nose as the sniff machine, ear as "listening thingy"...
posted by k8t 15 June | 13:34
Did you ask your MIL what she calls it?
posted by rainbaby 15 June | 13:35
I got the full-deal sex-talk when I was like 3 and asked about where babies came from. I forgot all the details, including what woman parts were called, but when I asked my mom to remind me, she'd tell me the proper names.

I like no-no spots.
posted by sciurus 15 June | 13:36
Nah, rainbaby. I've found that the best way to cope with her is the blank stare. Sometimes a "huh."
posted by jrossi4r 15 June | 13:40
My mother called the whole works "your middle bottom" which is kinda creative.

I call my MIL "il duce" behind her back. Of course, she calls me "candy-ass", so it's all good.
posted by rainbaby 15 June | 13:44
Is that because you have a totally sweet rearview?
posted by jrossi4r 15 June | 13:48
No, it's because I don't get off my candy-ass and do twelve things at once like everyone should.
posted by rainbaby 15 June | 13:51
A character on Rex The Runt (you've never seen Rex The Runt? That's a crime!) refered to the areas as the 'front bottom'.
posted by Capn 15 June | 13:57
VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA!
posted by Specklet 15 June | 13:59
WHERE?
posted by jonmc 15 June | 14:00
middle bottom?
front bottom?

I couldn't have imagined these euphemisms in my wildest ruminations.

My parents were like sciurus' -- I never really had any euphemisms in the first place. Although they did consider "butt" to be a dirty word.
posted by Miko 15 June | 14:22
Privates were it; male or female.

Like we were in the army...
posted by Pips 15 June | 14:27
don't say that into the mirror, speck.
posted by Hellbient 15 June | 14:30
It was crotch in my family. Mostly because my mother used to freak if your hand wandered anywhere in the general region and scream, "Don't do that! People will think you have crotch crickets!"

Crotch crickets.
posted by jrossi4r 15 June | 14:30
Oh, giggles over the last three comments.

Bathing Suit Area is a gender neutral term of art for educating small kids. As in "tell a parent, teacher, or other trusted adult if anyone tries to touch you in your Bathing Suit Area."
posted by rainbaby 15 June | 14:35
Crotch cricket totally cracks me up!
posted by Specklet 15 June | 14:37
Crotch crickets.


Better than cooch cucarachas.
posted by me3dia 15 June | 14:37
Bathing suit area, that's right next to the boys socks and underwear area, right?
Yeah, I got touched there once.
posted by Hellbient 15 June | 14:41
Reminds me of Wm. Stephen Humphrey (TV columnist for The Stranger alternative weekly) calling a particular TV show Touched on the Swimsuit Area By An Angel.
posted by matildaben 15 June | 14:46
When my daughter was 3 or 4, during a visit to my mom's my mom took me aside and informed me that my daughter's way of sitting, with her legs open and her c*****r exposed, was making her uncomfortable. .

I chose to try to explain this to my daughter. . .a weird conversation. . .I had not even noticed.
posted by danf 15 June | 14:47
By way of flirting I was forced to refer to it as a "hoo hoo." Sometimes I still do.

You should have your daughter start refering to parts of her body by what they don't do.

For instance, the vaginal/vulval area would be the "Not Pooper," while the eyes would be the "No Grinders."
posted by Captaintripps 15 June | 14:59
Everything was "bottom".
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 15 June | 15:03
Even the top?
posted by Captaintripps 15 June | 15:12
Crotch chinchillas?
posted by porpoise 15 June | 15:13
Boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina!

≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by Hugh Janus 15 June | 15:23
My friend's 3-yr-old got a minor infection, and went around telling everyone about his red, swollen penis. Everyone--the girls at the grocery store checkout, random strangers in the street, his babysitter. Getting ready for adolescence, we figured.
posted by elizard 15 June | 17:19
Oh, and Hugh Janus, you owe me some keyboard cleaner.
posted by elizard 15 June | 17:19
I really wish someone was touching my bathing suit area right now. And regularly.
posted by mike9322 15 June | 17:52
← I am hungover || YOU WILL DO THIS OR I WILL NOT MAKE YOUR HUSBAND ANY PIES YOU TRAMP! →

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