What do you call your toddlers private parts? [Archive]

dustbin

14-01-2009, 10:01am

Inspired by the 'words you can't stand' thread in LiG, I have been wondering about this issue for a while, especially for those with girls.

For boys I think it is relatively easy and we call it 'willy' which Finn finds hilarious and says it with the double 'l' sounding more like a 'y'. Maybe he has secret Spanish roots we don't know about :lol:

Girls though :brainache:
I really hate all the twee little words you could use like 'fou fou' or something. But vagina seems a bit too frank!

What do you call it?
I know there have probably been loads of threads like these but figured it might be mildly amusing as well as informative.

Mrs B

14-01-2009, 10:03am

Willy and bottom here, although am dreading having to have this conversation about a girl! May go for "front bottom", that's what we used when we were growing up.

popinjay1

14-01-2009, 10:06am

The girls & I call it their 'bits'. Couldnt find anything else I felt OK about using. The boys are their willies. Bottoms are bottoms.

Firefly

14-01-2009, 10:11am

We have somehow ended up calling it a fanjina. :oops:

spandangley

14-01-2009, 10:16am

Lexie B

14-01-2009, 10:18am

Minnie!
And Willy!
:lol::lol:
Other parents I know refer to their girls privates as "mooey" or "lala" too.....!

Cymber

14-01-2009, 10:31am

:lol: Mim!

Louis is ALWAYS asking me if I have a willy and when I say no, asking what I have. I say fanny... but I dont really feel that comfortable with it. I wish I could find a word that was en par with willy, because I just cant bring myself to say fanny if elsewhere (he also asks nanny, auntie etc if they have willies)

I wonder if any pet name for girls bits would sound 'wrong' iykwim? 'Cos really Fanny is on a par with Willy (both being old fashioned names), but I know what you mean.

With my older kids (10 and 12) I do use fanny unless it's a 'serious' conversation, in which case I use vagina (which I know isn't technically correct blah blah). I can't think off hand what I use with my 5 year old :puzzled:

jamsplat

14-01-2009, 11:27am

we have 'lady bits' in this house.

Muppetgal

14-01-2009, 11:29am

the boys call their bits their "wanger". :oops:

lucypede

14-01-2009, 11:30am

Lucy calls her "bits" her Button, which I think is very cute! :teehee:

As for boys bits, I have no idea - she has seen her friends willy and asked what it was, and in a panic I said it was his Winky :doh: :why:

I can't think of an acceptable, copyable word for one! :lol:

janiebaby

14-01-2009, 11:37am

my daughter used to call it her pee wee , she asked her nan to knit her a wooly pee wee cover just like her mummys :grin:

Mrsneville

14-01-2009, 11:38am

My daughter has a bottom, I may resort to front and back if I need too in future. When we were children i'm sure my mum and dad called it a Mary :happyno:

My daughter decided that boys bits were tails and was most interested in George's when he was born, she was obsessed with why she didn't have one until 1 day she told me that she had a tail and it was in her bottom :lol: :oops:

Mrs B

14-01-2009, 11:39am

my daughter used to call it her pee wee , she asked her nan to knit her a wooly pee wee cover just like her mummys :grin:

PMSL!

Princess Fiona

14-01-2009, 11:41am

We have somehow ended up calling it a fanjina. :oops:

Totally and utterly PMSL, i'd wet myself if my 4 year old said that word :lol:

Here boys bits are their "bits" and for girls we have "bitty boo" :teehee:

Lucy made herself up a little song for when she's on the toilet, she sings down the stairs "Wipe my bitty booooooooooo nooooooooooow" :teehee:

Aurora

14-01-2009, 11:44am

Willy in this house :lol:

I don't have daughters but when I was growing up I called it my 'private' and I suppose I would use that as I can't think of an alternative. I agree, it is a lot trickier for little girls.

Katiekipper

14-01-2009, 11:47am

We call them willy and 'girlie bits'. I wanted a word that wasn't twee or silly and was also recognisable if Dd ever needed to talk to a Dr or God forbid a policeman.
I heard once of an abuse case falling apart when the child could only say "He touched my flower". The defence were able to argue that the girl had never actually said her private parts had been touched. I think girlie bits are pretty unambiguous.

noddy

14-01-2009, 11:49am

Henry has a willy and Betty has a fouff (pronounced as you would imagine Tess Daly to say 'stuff', IYKWIM) or sometimes it's called her tuppence.

Noddy

Alabama

14-01-2009, 12:00pm

We used willy/tiddle for boys bits and wee wee for girls bits when i was little so I suppose we'll go with the same when the time comes :shrug:

noo noo

14-01-2009, 12:00pm

front bottom

Bluebabe75

14-01-2009, 12:04pm

Willy in this house too - usually announced at top volume whenever ever he's naked - 'look Mummy, there's my willy, I streak now :lol: '

tigger71

14-01-2009, 12:08pm

Bits and bobs........:oops:

Abbie

14-01-2009, 12:09pm

Ellie calls them her "bits". And boys have "poos" which dates back to her being very tiny and glimpsing Daddy's willy and being convinced it was a poo.

It's kind of stuck so boys have poos and girls have bits.

Grace has just copied, although she's quite partial to the word willy and likes to yell it in the supermarket, on the street, etc, just for maximum Mummy embarassment

They also call boobs "pompoms"

dustbin

14-01-2009, 12:14pm

Ellie calls them her "bits". And boys have "poos" which dates back to her being very tiny and glimpsing Daddy's willy and being convinced it was a poo.

:lol::lol:

Chickpea

14-01-2009, 12:27pm

We have 'Tinky' in this house.

Which does cause some amusement when referring to 'Tinky Winky' in the Teletubbies :teehee:

Maudie

14-01-2009, 12:36pm

I had a lilly when I was growing up, I can't use the word now as my it is my niece's middle name and it feels wrong :oops:

So we now have twinkles in this house. I think we will end up calling man parts a willy to be honest.

*LovelyBubbly*

14-01-2009, 01:09pm

Jude has a tail
Lily has a mary

Lily is now fully toilet trained and when shes finished her wee she jumps off and says need to wipe my mary now:oops:

ms.lurker

14-01-2009, 01:16pm

we started off with willy but jake has had sex ed at school and now tells me off when i call it willy coz its a penis, so penis it is even william now says it.

becca n me have front bums

guinness

14-01-2009, 01:29pm

b has a willy, c either has a foof, front bottom or bits.
I say fandango for me but it seems a bit grownup for a little person :brainache:

Hamlet

14-01-2009, 01:30pm

Willies bits and bums in this house.

I'm really not sure why I can't just use the proper terms, I mean they are just words. Vagina I can just about do, but I simply can't say the word penis!

Annie Goolahey

14-01-2009, 01:42pm

Joseph has a winky.
I imagine we will refer to madam's a front bum.
Like Guinness, I have a fandango - but think it is much too grown up for a child to say

honeybunchbuffle

14-01-2009, 02:16pm

peepee in this house, if i had a girl i think i'd go along the lines of flower or something :scratchchin:

Superkat

14-01-2009, 02:20pm

Toby has a willy and he says I have a fluff:oops: I called it that one day when I couldnt think of anything else!! I have tried to change it to twinkle but no joy!

Toby asked me once when I was just back from getting a Brazilian....Mummy, whats wrong with your fluff? here did it go?

He calls his bum a bum or sometimes a bottom.

I call my bits my woman.

My friend has two girls and they call it their pennies

Minky

14-01-2009, 02:22pm

I think vagina is not only a bit grown up but also factually inaccurate, because actually we are referring to the pudendum/labia surely? :wink: :teehee:

We call our girls ones a tinky. Mine is a fandango :wink: (cos I think fanny is a bit vulgar :oops:).

ETA I do rather like foof though!

Tinky is short for "tinkle flower". My (:gay:) hairdresser told me that one and I just loved it! So cute!

White Rose

14-01-2009, 02:38pm

Miss P

14-01-2009, 03:01pm

We use "minny" here, it's what I used to say when I was young so seemed the way to go.

My sister decided on "fairy" for her daughter, which just doesn't seem right given the number of times fairy/fairies crop up in a young girl's life :lol:

tigger71

14-01-2009, 04:28pm

My best friend has just informed me he used to call it a "bungalow" when he was a kid.......:grin:

xx

Katiekipper

14-01-2009, 04:33pm

Front bottom here.

Just out of curiosity, those of you who say I call mine a ... fandango or a foof or whatever ... who do you call it that name to (IYSWIM)? Mr WR would have an instant attack of the giggles if I directed him anywhere near my fandango in the midst of passion, and I can't ever imagine telling the doctor about having a "bit of a problem with my mary, you know Doc, my flower ... oh for heaven's sake man, I mean my foof" :lol: Is it just inside your heads that you use those names?

I was wondering that! I don't call mine anything because I'm a grown woman who doesnt talk about her private parts to anyone except a Dr or may Dh and in those case I'll use the correct term for the specific part I'm referring to. As Minky said, the vagina is rarely what people are referring to when they talk about bits down below.
I only use a 'name' for my Dds as when she was 3 I didnt want to have to say "Don't forget to wash your labia" when she was in the bath.

ChelseaHarvey

14-01-2009, 04:37pm

We call it a winky & girls bits get called a Fufu

Mrs Flowers

14-01-2009, 04:48pm

I personally call mine a beaver. As a kid it was a front bottom! OH and I talked about what to use for DD and we decided on foofoo and willy but I do quite like tinkle flower!!

ms sweetcheeks

14-01-2009, 04:54pm

Theo calls his willy for a willy- simple really. We call it that too!
He never asks if Daddy has one or anything like that, although he asked me once what my bits were called and in a slight moment, I said Foofoo:oops:
Which is not a word I have ever used tbh!

What's worse is when he asks what my tampons are, I lied and said they were called cotton wool! :lol:

Abbie

14-01-2009, 04:57pm

What's worse is when he asks what my tampons are, I lied and said they were called cotton wool! :lol:

:lol: Grace is obsessed with my tampons - she calls them mice. She climbs onto the loo seat to get them out of the bathroom cabinet and then throws them down the loo as she likes to watch the mice grow :loco:

Penfold

14-01-2009, 05:07pm

The girls have bits, front bottoms or foofs and the minded boys have willies.

Katoid

14-01-2009, 05:08pm

We call it 'girlie bits' in our house - so 'make sure you have washed your girlie bits' etc. I think for our boy we will be using the word winky - i am not keen on willy either - well so to speak :lol:

dustbin

14-01-2009, 05:10pm

i am not keen on willy either - well so to speak :lol:

:lol:

Katoid

14-01-2009, 05:30pm

Teya thinks that tampons are for ears - as one night she had a raging ear infection and i put some drops down her ears and had to dissect a tampon as it was the only 'cotton wool' we had in :oops: :oops:

choccy eating monster

14-01-2009, 05:43pm

Minny or minky. If I say "minny" she says "No, minky". If i say "minky" she says "no, minny". If she points at mine, I call it private parts.

Rosa

14-01-2009, 06:18pm

PMSL at this thread :teehee:

Louis says Willy (he loves his new big boy pants "cause I can squish my willy better mummy" :shocked: :lol:). Hos bottom is his bot.

I wouldn't say fanny for girls, that is quite a rude word here, not something a child says unless as term of abuse! :lol: I say mine are "lady bits" and I think I'd stick with bits or front and back bottom if I had a girl.

Red xx

flipflop

14-01-2009, 06:27pm

Willy and bottom here. Joe sometimes says 'Mummy and Evie have two bottoms, I only have one at the back. Mummy has hair on her bottom' :oops: :lol:.

What's worse is when he asks what my tampons are, I lied and said they were called cotton wool! :lol:

I call tampons etc my 'ladies things', E can spot the packaging from a mile off in the shops, and frequently calls out things like 'don't forget your ladies things mummy!' when we're shopping :rolleyes:.

Firefly

14-01-2009, 06:35pm

I was toileting a girl of about 3 at work, and she'd finished her wee, and announced "now I need to wipe my foo foo" I had to try really hard not to laugh out loud :lol:

And I have a funny story about my niece when she was younger. SIL is very upfront about things, and as she was a single mum for a while, she'd often end up taking her DD into the bathroom with her, and would answer any questions quite directly.

Anyway, they were in the supermarket, buying wrapping paper and her DD asked to carry the roll of wrapping paper. Which niece then held close to the the appropriate area and said (very loudly)" look, tampax mummy" :shock::faint:

Seagull&Snoopy

14-01-2009, 06:50pm

Willy or Winky for boy.
Tinky or Minky for a girl.

In both cases we have front bottoms and back bottoms.

tigger71

14-01-2009, 06:53pm

I call tampons etc my 'ladies things', E can spot the packaging from a mile off in the shops, and frequently calls out things like 'don't forget your ladies things mummy!' when we're shopping :rolleyes:.

Emily calls my sanitary pads etc 'Mummy nappies......':lol::lol:

WiCkEd_WeNcH

14-01-2009, 08:13pm

George has a minnie and a bottom while MArk has a weegie.

Sealface

14-01-2009, 08:43pm

:lol: so many inventive names on this thread! We have willy for a boy and front bottom for a girl, not very exciting I'm afraid!!

suemarie

14-01-2009, 08:49pm

I would never call it a vagina as it isnt one (Vagina is inside)
Lucy who is nearly 2 calls it her twinkle, which I have sort of said to her a few times. My sister calls it a foo foo as in little bunny foo foo

ETA: when we were younger we were told that it was called an Aunty Mary & boys had tuppences

donna-j

14-01-2009, 08:55pm

Willy and lady bits.

applejack

14-01-2009, 09:10pm

I think Lady bits, thats what I usually refer to it as at the moment but of course she doesnt understand yet lol

Ruby

14-01-2009, 09:10pm

In both cases we have front bottoms and back bottoms.
Where is a boy's front bottom?

I know a little girl who uses the word 'pussy'. I laugh every time I hear it.

I agree with Minky re : accuracy - it's not your vagina, is it? What about vulva?

Son uses the word willy for him - what I call my chuff has never come up. I think I'd settle for 'lady bits'.

Rosa

14-01-2009, 09:14pm

MArk has a weegie.

:teehee: don't tell the glasgow girls that :lol:

Red xx

RealGoneKid

14-01-2009, 09:17pm

We use willy for a boy's bits and front bottom for a girl's bits.

Posie

14-01-2009, 09:27pm

Girl's bits are called 'fairy' in this house.

I have absolutely no idea why I started calling it that, all I knew was that I wasn't very keen on vagina or mini...

dustbin

15-01-2009, 09:10am

I think having read this thread I will opt for 'girly bits' when necessary :nod:
And yes, vagina isn't technically correct but it is the term most people use.... and no way would I say vulva or labia! :lol:

skylark

15-01-2009, 08:08pm

Gemma has a minky and boys have willies.

Damsella

15-01-2009, 08:10pm

Boys have willies, and bottoms, and DD has a bottom or botty.

I've never felt the need to call her front part anything different, so far. I may call it Botty, and the back can be Bottom. If needed.

Cymber

16-01-2009, 05:22pm

And yes, vagina isn't technically correct but it is the term most people use.... and no way would I say vulva or labia! :lol:`

No it's not technically correct, but then neither is willy, or foof (like that one :lol:) or fandango or winky or minky or....

WeeBird

16-01-2009, 09:40pm

In this house girls will have front bottoms when DD wants to know and DS has a 'fireman'

I totally blame DH for this as he was arsing about after watching South Park - the episode where Kyle is being circumcised and one of the others says in total horror "Dude, they're gonna chop off your fireman"

I have no idea how to get DS to change what he calls it as he is adamant that that is what it is called. I'd rather he said willy tbh.