After reading Andrea's post yesterday about Britney needing to buy panties (seriously, what is up with Mrs. Federline? You've had 2 children! Put a lid on it!), I got to thinking about body parts and what you should teach your children to call them.
There are people who think that children should call their 'privates' by their proper biological name, my husband being one of them. I on the other hand, cannot think of anything more creepy than a 3 year old boy referring to his penis, unless it's a 3 year old girl referring to her vagina. I was raised properly and came to embrace words such as: moon, cookeroonie, keenies, dickie bird etc. and grew into a (mostly) well adjusted adult - until Judes started working with a woman named 'Mai Moon' and then all maturity and decorum went out the window.
I've heard many a funny word to describe human genitalia including but not limited to: bobo's, Mary's (both Paulie Grogan originals) chow-chows, cheeseburgers etc. and when I hear those words I can't help but think all is well in the world. Who needs to use clinical terms outside of an actual clinic?
Call me old fashioned, call me an irresponsible parent-to-be, but please call it a va-jay-jay!
7 comments:
My East Indian friend doesn't call it anything because in her family they pretend not to have one at all.
Personally, nothing sounds better than moon and bird.
What's next, 2 year olds calling it flatulance instead of fart? Bowel movement instead of poop? Urinate instead of pee? If poop is wrong, I don't want to be right.
when aunt joan and i were growing up we didnot use any names,what did we call it? Rose raised her girls not calling it anything.Personally it"entirelyup to you, Honestly i don?t know how you think of this. Keep on writing i love it. judes
So if Nanny Rose didn't come up with moon/moonie, then where did it come from?! I just assumed it was among many long running Lane traditions. Weird? Jen! you were the first grandchild....you should know!
Oh and just to let you all know, I still refer to them to Emma as keenies. Big girl ones are underwear and little girl ones are keenies!
I say keep their innocence, it will be lost soon enough!!!
Love Joanne.P
I too cannot remember where moonie came from but I'm with you;moonie dickie bird will do just fine.I'm with your Mom how do you come up with this? It's great; I love it.
Joan
Andrea - if we have a girl, Owen's going to want to raise it East Indian!
Joanne P - Here's the thing. I always called it a cookeroonie and thought moon/moonie came from one of the Hawkins girls via Andrea. The mystery continues.
Judes & Joanie - This post came from a lunch discussion around a woman at work teaching her daughter the 'proper' word for her va-jay-jay. She couldn't believe that I would consider using nicknames for it. I told her that's how we roll in Buchans.
My dad must be east indian becuase I don't remember body parts ever being discussed in our house. We also didn't pee in the bathroom next to my mom and dad's room, cause god forbid our dad heard us going, and we also were forbidden to watch commercials about tampax, monistat and any other product that had anything to do with body functions. My dad is such a prude!
Okay, you all need to read Rosie O'Damato's column in today's Toronto Star - she says it best!
and does so with tongue in cheek.
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