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4.46 (Worth a try) from 21 votes (653 Visits)

Be careful what you call it.

(October 2006) (rank 23rd)

Choose a term for things that you are not embarrassed to have screamed loudly in public.

A friend of mine with a 2 year old son shared this little pearl of wisdom with me.

They referred to breastfeeding as booby, so when her son wants to be breastfed he now screams out "BOOBY, BOOBY, BOOBY, BOOBY" etc at the top of his voice. He is two so his speech is quite clear.

My friend is a teacher and found it very embarrassing when, sitting next to her principal in the middle of a school concert her son began screaming for ‘booby’ and I must admit she also looked a little embarrassed on Saturday morning when Oscar demanded ‘booby’ repeatedly at the top of his voice in the middle of the Ikea coffee shop. She had offered him other foods but as he is teething all he really wanted was 'booby'.

I guess this information goes for breastfeeding and anything else your child is likely to request or need to let you know in a hurry such as toileting needs etc.
I hope I am able to breastfeed but I think I shall call it ‘milk’ rather than ‘booby’.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| November 2006 \| cheleinkal

Excellent Point

I remember being about aged 7 and saying excuse me, whilst Mum was chatting to a lady friend in the main street. The lady friend asked me why I said excuse me, and I was embarressed to say because I had done a "Piggy Bottom". That was the only word I had ever registered them being called, I thought everyone called them that. So needless to say my embarrasment increaded 10 fold when the woman asked what a "Piggy Bottom" was and my Mum say's "She means a fart" as though I'd made the word up. I was mortified as well as embarrassed which is probably why I remember it as clear as a bell today when I am 35 years old. We call them Windy's or Windy-Pops for Ailish as I think "Fart" is an awful sounding word.. We say "Pardy" after every Burp or Windy, she calls her bum a Bum, we reffer to her vagina as "Fanny". Bottle is Bottle but I think if I ever breast feed in the future for longer than 3 months I would call it "num nums" or something like that, then it could be any kind of food they're reffring too, though YOU know what it is exactly.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| October 2006 \| Tammy13

agree!

I always thought that children should be tought the right words and not "nick names". other wise how would they learn to talk the right way? and you're right - shouting certain words in public is not a very good idea. This is also why parents should be very aware of the words they are saying infront of their children.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| October 2006 \| Jessgore

Be careful what you call it.

Oh my the things I have to look forward to... Thank you I think I am going to need this advice after reading all the comments... Only thing though is with my son learning two languages I am not always sure what words in french are embarracing or should not be said. I better sit down with the husband and chat about this one before it is to late....

Thanks again.. And thanks every one for sharing... (I am sitting here giggling excuse me while I explain it to my husband as he thinks I have just gone crazy...)

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| October 2006 \| busyasabee

Good laugh

That is pretty funny. I taught my son to use the word 'pee-pee'. One day we were waiting in line at the grocery store, when he started to scratch himself. I told him to stop, he ignores me and I repeated myself a little louder. He shouted back, "Mom, my p**** is itchy." WOW, turns out daddy believed in teaching the anatomically correct words for everything. Wish he had told me sooner. I might not have turned that red.

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	November 2006 \| JadieLady

Good laugh

AlIN the austrlaian court system if someone said something like 'he touched my peepee' it wouldn't hold. they must actually say the proper name for the part for it to be accepted. just a thought for everyone. In the daycare centres they are teaching 'penis' and 'vagina'. NOt something they will come out and say at your orientation i bet!

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| October 2006 \| tinker79

I loved that one!!

HAha!! too funny!

I remember when my daughter and I were running errands uptown. She had to go potty, so I took her to the bathroom. Everything was fine. Than she asked questions like, ''Does everyone go pee in potty?'' I said yes honey the are all big people, big people go pee on the potty. Than she asked ''does everyone one have pee pee's?'' I said, yes everyone does.

Well to my surprise she asked the next person that passed by if the had a pee pee, if they go pee on the potty. The man replied yes, I do. Well she wasn't fine with that, she had to ask if it was furry!! Well I grabbed her hand so fast and raced out of the store leaving running errands to do by myself.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| October 2006 \| rogerslili

I loved that one!!

LMAO!! Oh, wow. My son did something along the same lines when he was 2, but not exactly the same at all.

We were standing at the check-out and he toddled about 3 feet from me. I said, "Stay there, buddy," and he grinned and did so. Just then, a woman walked by wearing a dress. Alec lifted her skirt and grinned ear to ear and said, "Mama! I see panties!" and I wanted to die. What made it worse was the woman then winked at me, patted his head, and said, "Thank goodness I wore some today, huh?"

!!!!!

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	4.00 (Good) \| October 2006 \| tinker79

I loved that one!!

OMG! LOL than what would you have done if she wasn't wearing any? I wonder what he would have said? LOL I am glad that hasn't happened to me yet ''crossing fingers'' lol

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	3.00 (Average) \| October 2006 \| allyp

I loved that one!!

oh my LMAO, I would be sooo embarassed

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	4.00 (Good) \| October 2006 \| allyp

I loved that one!!

My mouth dropped while I was reading it..

That made me laugh BIG TIME. Thanks for that!!

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| October 2006 \| rogerslili

*giggle*

Excellent idea. I wish I had been warned like this, before I had my son. I skated through, telling my son that it's a "peeper" and "ball-balls", instead of many other things we could have called it. *ahem* But he still got me. One day, I was walking through the store, on a definite mission. We got to the preferred aisle, and my then-5-year-old yelled out, "Mama!! DO You Need TAMPONS??!!!"

Needless to say, I tried to crawl Under the floor.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| October 2006 \| Bethdyl

Couldn't agree more

Absolutely. Simple words are usually the best. What's even more embarrassing is if they grab your top and lift it up when you're not expecting it!!!

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	4.00 (Good) \| October 2006 \| MumKim

Couldn't agree more

all the joys I have to look forward to. I am 27 weeks pregnant so it's too late to back out now.

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	4.00 (Good) \| October 2006 \| dolphins30

Sounds ok

Yeah, you do have to teach them a different word huh for when they go out.

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	3.50 (Good) \| October 2006 \| peachynowamum

lmao

Loved it and realy made me laugh ;)

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