DD has only recently asked me about her privates so I told her that she has a "vagina". She likes to watch "Ni Hao Kai Lan" and thinks that I am calling it "China". So whenever I say "vagina", she starts singing their song "I'm going to China! I'm going to China!" and calls it "my China".
Gaaaaah!
grapefruit / 4049 posts
Omg that's hilarious! Love your DD!
We just use the Tagalog word for it...
pomegranate / 3314 posts
HA! Right now LO is too little to call it anything, but like you I am going to encourage "vagina" since I think the euphemisms some people use are kind of creepy (I am thinking of my grandmother who called it a "peek-a-boo"... gross).
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
Hahahaha
Mine calls it her "bo"
And butt is butt! 
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@meredithNYC: peek-a-boo is so creepy! I haven't heard that one before. LOL!!
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
haha!!! Wagon Jr. calls it his "weewee" and butt is "bum". Necessary to decide on what to call them when you start potty training...!! Especially with a boy who has to push his penis down when he pees.
squash / 13199 posts
I will just tell her to call it her private part til she is olde.r I dont want her yelling vagina out at the wrong time. Plus little girls dont even know much or "use" their vagina. Most kids want to know where they pee from and So if I was gonna be technical I would have to explain all the parts which is too much for a little girl to grasp.
cantaloupe / 6800 posts
I'll just call it their private parts, or girl/boy parts.
My niece calls her whole lower half her "butt". So she'll tell my SIL that she's changing her butt when shes getting a diaper change lol
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@mrbee: ha, love Scrubs. We're working on it. She can't say "va" for some reason so the closest she's gotten is "gina".
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@MrsTiz: DD was calling everything butt as well so we've been working on correcting her!
pomegranate / 3414 posts
When DD started potty training, I tried calling her girl parts "front" and butt "back" but DH decided it should be called her "who-ha" however DD refers to it as her "ah-ha". Her butt is butt.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
@mrbee: bahahahah. So true too! It's definitely still more comfortable for me to say privates lol
DS can't talk yet but interesting discussion... I suppose we'll just try to stick with penis even though wee wee is probably what I might have used lol!!
kiwi / 614 posts
@Andrea: China! That's hilarious
DD is only 4months so this isn't an issue yet. But I think we'll use the French words "zezette" for girl parts and "zizi" for boy parts even when speaking English...
grapefruit / 4110 posts
Peeny and Butt. But he doesn't call them anything. We call it that. He can point to all of his body parts but the only one he has said is "no" for nose.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
@Mrs. Pen: hehe yeah. I was thinking I'd use penis, but I just couldn't say the word penis that many times in one day. To my 2 year old's face. Especially since most of the time you're yelling or sing-songing it. "PUSH YOUR PENIS DOWN!!!!" "Don't forget to push your penis down, buddy!" "PUSH YOUR PENIS DOWN! PENIS DOWN! PENIS DOWNNNN!!!"
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
@Mrs. Pen: yeah. Very typical story of starting out meaning well and ending up doing the very thing you didn't wanna do. 2 year olds tend to yell and repeat things a lot, and I didn't want him to be screaming "PENIS DOWN!" through the mall and stuff. At least when he refers to his wee-wee, it's cute. He's always like "look at my wee-wee, mommy" which I tell him immediately not to do but at least I can kind of giggle at it. If he were to say "look at my penis, mommy" I'd just feel a little weird. He's still a baby to me. 
I'll teach him to refer to it as penis once he's older. Maybe when he starts having health classes in school.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
@Mrs. Pen: and/or when he starts calling me mom instead of mommy. TEAR!
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@Chastenet: ah, romance language ... those words sound so nice compared to penis and vagina!!
@mrs. wagon: omg. PENIS DOWN!! hahaha. yeah, you don't really have reference anything when potty training a girl! err, aim your pee hole down?? haha, naaaah.
@Mrs. Bee: Charlie and peanuts?? That could not be more perfect.
kiwi / 614 posts
@Andrea: lol! those are the cutsie names The official words are "penis" and "vagin"...not so romantic afterall!
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
@Andrea: he just misheard penis and thought it was peanuts and we haven't corrected him. but pretty hilarious connection between charlie and peanuts -- hadn't thought about that!
pineapple / 12234 posts
Hahaha!
DS says his "boy parts", for awhile he would say winky instead. When I change DD's diaper he says "don't forget to clean her girl parts" so that just what we're sticking to until they are older.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@Mrs. Bee: 
@Chastenet: aw man, I was like French people always make everything sound so nice!
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@mrs. wagon: Charlie uses the toilet to pee, and leans forward onto his hands so that everything is pointing down. Maybe worth trying?
blogger / pomegranate / 3300 posts
My boys know penis and testicles and they usually call their butt a bum or butt. They have asked if girls pee out of their bums since they don't have a penis. I said no they just have another hole in the front. We didn't really get into what a vagina is yet since all they are really interested in is how girls pee and poop. I told them the word urethra and they just ignored it and said sister has holes.
GOLD / pear / 1845 posts
@mrs. wagon: okay, you had me laughing out loud for realz.
Um, I've somehow not called it anything? Girly parts? That's what I say...
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
@mrbee: yeah, WJ leans forward too but it's not enough. His... anatomy makes it necessary for some help from his hands. He'd probably do well standing up but I'm just not willing to live through the process of learning how to aim! He's aiming this way, anyway, so I guess it doesn't even really matter.
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