Nicknames for privates?

[babyrough]

My LO calls his a willy. He's never asked what anything else is called yet. I won't be using the correct terms I don't use them myself and it would make me cringe hearing a toddler come out with them.
He will learn the correct terms as he gets older as and when he wants to know and from school etc.

 

[Rhi_Rhi1]

I haven't had like in depth conversations lol but it does come up... mostly it's me telling the two year old "get your hands off your Willy" etc.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

Willy balls and fanny.
I would never sit and have a conversation with a friend and say "vagina" or "penis". Just the same I wouldn't say I was sitting on my buttocks... it's a bum. My children know the correct words but why would they use them ... no one does lol

Tbh I don't sit and have a conversation with my children about their genitals regardless of what terms we use it's never been a thing

Same as Rhi. Ive spoken before to mine because of periods etc. My daughter slipped off her bike peddles last week and had to say she hurt her bits. Mine know they are Vagina, vulva, anus, penis etc but at home we say willy, balls etc

Oh yeah I obviously thas the period chat when DD1 was ready for it. I thought the thread was mainly about toddlers. If my youngest hurt herself like that she would probably just say her bum.

Ah yes, I go into 'new threads' so do not see section. My son had a teste removed at 3 so he knows he only has one ball! My toddler says willy and just 'bum' atm. We do say vagina...she still says bum!

 

[kirstybumx3]

I actually do say penis. Rio calls his a penis, willy or a tail depending how he feels. Usually it's his dinosaur tail apparently.
I don't think I've ever had to talk about his testicles to him, but we call them balls and don't feel any way about that. I'd cringe at a child calling their vagina a fanny though. Suppose it varies in different areas.

 

[loeylo]

I'm gobsmacked at calling a vagina a fanny! Here (Scotland) fanny is definitely used as a swear word, it actually makes me cringe worse than see you next Tuesday, which is used more conversationally.

We call our daughters vulva a burger. Really need to stop it! She also keeps trying to grab my dogs penis so we use "leave his willy" and she seems to understand so I think we will go with willy. I don't see us having a need for a word for testicles until she is older, when I was young the full bit was just a willy.

I called mines my front bum when I was younger. I think we will go with that. And boobs.

 

[morri]

My daughter calls hers her vulva. thats what I have told her. the vagina is only the path leading up to the uterus..
and for men penis and scrotum(with testicles)

 

[sabby52]

When younger the boys called it a mickey-joe lol Daniel used to call his testicles his Gong-gongs Dec never really called them anything. Last year we had to have a chat with Dec about using proper names, he already knew them but had heard someone call theirs a dick and they told him it was ok to call it that so we had a chat and he always says penis now, he knows the word vagina but cant pronounce it properly although he hasnt had had to use it yet.

I am surprised so many people call them balls and fanny, here balls and fanny are defo mild swear words lol

 

[Pearls18]

Where are the people that say balls is a swear? I find that so odd!! We move around a lot so I just want to check if we need to be careful where we are ha! Seems odd how the word ball could ever be seen as offensive when it is a pretty good visual description for them?! Fanny was quite a normal term when I was growing up although it's always made me cringe and have never used it.

 

[smileyfaces]

Balls is defo not a swear word here? Very normal to say balls.

Fanny, however, is a crude word and defo not the norm for a child to say. Not a swear word as such, but something adults use rather than children.

 

[smileyfaces]

I'm in disbelief that people say vulva etc. I don't even know a single adult that says vulva lol.

 

[Pearls18]

I'm in disbelief that people say vulva etc. I don't even know a single adult that says vulva lol.

Same, I've only come across people saying it on here.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

I'm in disbelief that people say vulva etc. I don't even know a single adult that says vulva lol.

Same, I've only come across people saying it on here.

I say it all the time in my red tents haha but I love the word 😅😅

 

[smileyfaces]

You would!!!

 

[kbwebb]

embarressingly i didnt even know what 'vulva' was until i came on here. i grew up being taught 'everything' was vagina.

 

[babyv13]

agreed about fanny being pretty much a swear word in scotland, I'd be so shocked to hear that coming out of a child's mouth 🙈🙈

I alternate between flower and vagina, and will use willy and penis when it comes up. i don't think there's anything wrong with using nicknames as well as the proper terms but I won't be using the word vulva until we go into more anatomical detail as she gets older. I know vulva is the correct term, but vagina is more widely used to refer to the whole area so I'm more happy to use that

 

[SmartieMeUp]

Vaginas are called minnies
Penises are called willies and todgers
Testicles are called goolies and nads

Me and OH use crude words with each other or penis/vagina.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

You would!!!

Vulva lol max always cringes at my terminology!

 

[mummy_ellie09]

Not sure why, but I've always called it a doodle.
Not had to refer to any female parts, other than boobs - and that's what I call them and what he calls them

 

[morri]

nads is short for gonads which are the testicle / ovary before they are specialised into the testes or ovaries.

 

[smileyfaces]

You would!!!

Vulva lol max always cringes at my terminology!

You will have to compromise with naming baby's bits