All apologies
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
So I am very sorry, I haven't updated in over a week, and I'm going to continue to neglect the blog until after Christmas. Why you may ask? Well I have over extended myself and over planed and have a ton of Christmas presents to make as well as a Christmas Card to photoshop. Sorry about the mini-sabbatical...but I'll give you something to think about that is totally non-Christmas related.
Private Parts. We are having the discussion on what to call them. I taught Masaki the word WeeWee a while back, so that he didn't keep saying 'hot dog' or something else he had learned from Beavis and Butthead, and he wants to use that. I say we use the proper term(which I'm not mentioning so anyone using a library computer can still read this blog, you know parents filters, etc.). I don't want Clark to be embarrassed about his body, Masaki doesn't want him shouting the word out when he's older(though I don't know why shouting out the word weewee is that much better). So that is our dilemma. Question to all you readers. What did/do/will you teach your kids, and why?
See y'all from time to time, but back full time after Christmas. Oh yeah and see y'all in Utah!
posted by soybeanlover @ 10:36 PM
8 Comments:
We went proper terms all the way. I agree, yelling out random nicknames is in no way less embarrasing than yelling out the real thing. For a bit when Emily was first learning to talk she would say it wrong, commonly calling them "chinas" and "peanuts" It always made us giggle but then we would correct it. As as result it has never been taboo in our house. It just isn't a big deal, which is nice.
We did opt for bum over butt. Somehow it just sounded a little less crude coming from my two year olds mouth. And at school, butt is a bad word now (usually because it is said AT a child).
Don't you love these debates!! I would for sure avoid hot dog though. . . . what a boy thing to call it!
Proper names all the way. I don't want my girls feeling the need to check if their "hoo-ha" is the same as their friends "va-jayjay". Same goes for if I ever have a boy. "Does Clark's "wee-wee" look like my "pee-pee""? As I was teaching them the names, they did say them more than normal probably, but still only at home. It took me a long time to get over being uncomfortable with the proper names (or even to figure out what proper name to call their girl bits), and I don't want my girls to have the same issues.
We also have opted for the proper terms, although I have to admit that I have some major delimnas with the girl parts because the V word is not the actual name for the part of the anatomy that people are usually talking about so I then wonder--do we teach her the correct word or teach her the common "correct" word since that's the one that everyone else will be using.
Boys are so much easier--and for some reason, so much less disturbing to hear come out of the mouth of a toddler.
ANd yeah, we use bum too--Butt isn't even the technical term anyway, right? And everyone knows what a bum is.
I'm with you, use the right words, it makes them less likely to snicker when they hear them.
So I think I'll win just by virtue of the amount of time I spend with him. I was talking with Pam and I'm starting to think it might be partially cultural too.
Even adults say chinchin. I don't think there is a grown up word.
Jen- as for debates, you should see the one we are having concurrently with this one. When to try to have number 2...ugh what a crazy discussion!
Steph & kim- I know there was a discussion about proper naming of girl parts on feministmormonhousewives.com a while back. It'd be nice for society to reach a better consensus than what it has currently picked.
oh and Pam, I remember snickering as kids and not wanting to name things properly.
I, too am trying to figure out what to call everything. We've opted for "Bottom", but as for her "girl parts" I'm at a loss. My sister in law just used the word "parts" for everything, guy or girl. I don't want to do that, because I, like Steph, had a hard time with using the correct names for parts, and well, I still kinda do. I'm also trying to figure out what "potty words" I want to use for potty training. Part of me wants to be "medical" about it, but another part of me despises referring to "poop" as "B.M." Any suggestions on that would be helpful to me as well!! :)
yes, my parents used cloth diapers-- I don't know how they did it, cuz I don't know if I could handle that! You need to update your blog :) You been really busy?
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