Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 00:44     Subject: Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:"A preschooler has no experience of her vagina at all. "Lady parts" covers the subject without being overly clinical or WRONG. "

So a preschooler should talk about her "lady parts"? That's weird, like she's thinking "one day I'm going to have sex and babies down there."


She has as much experience with sex and babies as she does with her vagina. Lady parts is just a way of referring to The Area without being gross or clinical. I have a friend who calls it all Pink Parts, if you like that better.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 23:38     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:I hate when I ask my dh what he is doing and he says he is pooping. I guess the alternative would be to say: "I'm sh*tting." But I don't get why he tells me at all. Can't he just say: "I'm busy"?Or: "I'm in the bathroom"? Jesus.


Actually, another alternative would be to say "I'm defecating". Sounds very noble.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 23:36     Subject: Childish words used by adults.
So, holy shit, it just occurred to me that I need something to call DD's private parts, should the subject come up. "Wee wee" seems to work for DS, with an eventual transition to penis. Any suggestions?

boom boom?
muffin?
pee pee?
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 23:31     Subject: Childish words used by adults.
"A preschooler has no experience of her vagina at all. "Lady parts" covers the subject without being overly clinical or WRONG. "

So a preschooler should talk about her "lady parts"? That's weird, like she's thinking "one day I'm going to have sex and babies down there."
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 19:30     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:I hate when I ask my dh what he is doing and he says he is pooping. I guess the alternative would be to say: "I'm sh*tting." But I don't get why he tells me at all. Can't he just say: "I'm busy"?Or: "I'm in the bathroom"? Jesus.


We like to say, "I'm shaving!" From the movie Dumb and dumber. First it was just my husband, then our son started saying it as a toddler. Now the whole family uses it.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 19:27     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
DH also calls his penis his chubbie or "chub" when hard. I rather like that. The name, I mean.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 19:25     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
I hate when I ask my dh what he is doing and he says he is pooping. I guess the alternative would be to say: "I'm sh*tting." But I don't get why he tells me at all. Can't he just say: "I'm busy"?Or: "I'm in the bathroom"? Jesus.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 19:18     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Belly is not a kid word.



Perhaps. I think it depends on context. "Oooh, my belly is so full" or "I have a belly ache". Childish. THere are other uses that aren't, like a PP who mentioned belly dancing. But I'd say "tummy" is much more egregious.


belly dancing is ok to say but tummy tuck is not?


I guess abdominal dancing would be more acceptable to OP. She must be so fun to be around.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 18:00     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:I'm way, WAY more bothered by people using words that are inaccurate. Saying you have a stomach ache when your stomach is not involved bugs me. Talking about your vagina when you mean your labia or your vulva bugs me. Worse, teaching your child to talk about her vagina! A preschooler has no experience of her vagina at all. "Lady parts" covers the subject without being overly clinical or WRONG.

And so, belly and tummy are much preferable to me. It's a useful general term, and I would rather hear general terms than wrongly-used specific ones.


Agree, but to me tummy is a short, cutesy (and childish) word for stomach, whereas belly is a general term--albeit cutesy and possibly childish--for the abdomen. Personally, I would never use (and hate to hear someone else use) belly as in belly ache, or yummy in my belly, but if you are talking about a pregnant woman's abdomen, belly, to me, is an obvious choice.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 16:58     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
Is "hubby" a childish word?

I hate the word "hubby".
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 16:56     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:This thread is delish! Let's all get nakie!


And get under our blankie!
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 16:43     Subject: Childish words used by adults.
One of my co-workers, who arrived to work feeling ill, claimed he "felt like poo."

I have never been able to forget that moment, and to this day, it still makes me cringe.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 16:12     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
I'm way, WAY more bothered by people using words that are inaccurate. Saying you have a stomach ache when your stomach is not involved bugs me. Talking about your vagina when you mean your labia or your vulva bugs me. Worse, teaching your child to talk about her vagina! A preschooler has no experience of her vagina at all. "Lady parts" covers the subject without being overly clinical or WRONG.

And so, belly and tummy are much preferable to me. It's a useful general term, and I would rather hear general terms than wrongly-used specific ones.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 15:23     Subject: Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:OP, I am 41 and still call my 66-year-old father "Daddy." Does that bother you?


I'm 58 and I still call my 84 year old father Daddy.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 14:02     Subject: Re:Childish words used by adults.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Belly is not a kid word.



Perhaps. I think it depends on context. "Oooh, my belly is so full" or "I have a belly ache". Childish. THere are other uses that aren't, like a PP who mentioned belly dancing. But I'd say "tummy" is much more egregious.


belly dancing is ok to say but tummy tuck is not?


commonly used compound nouns

VERY different from choosing to say stomach ache over belly ache, for example
I prefer tummy to belly.