Wednesday, 25 March 2009
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Our Nicknames for Private Parts
by Mama Bee 
My sister-in-law, her 2 kids, and her husband are staying with my family until they get in their house. They moved here last week which is beyond cool. It should only be a few more days until they move. As hard as it is to have 4 people add to 5 already in my house, its been a blast. My sister-in-law and I stay up until the wee morning hours laughing and talking. My brother-in-law and husband are outside with the kids playing like children themselves and my kids and nieces are having the time of their life.
My sister in law has 2 little girls and I have 2 boys and one girl.
Last night my sons were getting out of the shower when my niece had to go potty. She, for some reason, didn't care that there were 2 other bathrooms, she had to go into the one my boys were in. She is going to be 3 and isn't quite fully potty trained so she couldn't hold it. She walked in and sat on the toilet as my sons were wrapped in their towel and looked at her like she was crazy for busting in on them.
When we were going to the rooms to change into jammies, my son's towel flew open accidentally when he was trying to adjust it because he was freezing. I guess my niece caught a glimpse of the difference between boys and girls and later in the night, as my sister and I sat shoving our face with melted chocolate and strawberries she said, "Did you know MY tigley fell off?" My sister and I tried to stop laughing long enough to have to explain what she saw and why she didnt have one, but we were falling short.
In my house we have little names for our private parts. "Tigley" being the boy part, obviously.
My brother-in-law who was in the living room with my husband overheard and said, "You can't give it a more manly name then Tigley? Please tell me you're joking." It made me think, are we the only ones that do this?
Do you have nicknames for private parts for your children? How did you explain the difference between boy and girl parts to your kids?
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- About Me: Hi, I'm Mama Bee. I'm from Colorado and I've lived here my entire life. I'm happily married to the most amazing guy and have been for going on 3 years. I am a stay at home mom with 2 step sons that live with my husband and I full time. C is 6 and J is 5. My husband, Daddy Bee, and I have a daughter together. K is 15 months and is a miracle baby. I would like to have another baby but due to some health issues I've been told I may not be able to. I believe that is why God gave me my daughter and our boys. My family has and will always come first. Marriage and motherhood are hard, but the most rewarding things I've ever been able to experience in my life. We have our ups and downs, we're not perfect but we try, we live, and we learn. We laugh when things get hard and we are thankful when things are easy. With 3 kids our life never seems boring. I look forward to sharing my family with you!
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I'm honestly too embarrassed to repeat what my mother used to call our "male member." So, suffice to say, you are not alone in having names for our private parts. This was fun to read, and brought back a few childhood memories.
When I was younger, my parents called it "our privates." Other wise they used the correct anatomical terms for the male and female genitalia.
No nicknames here, they are called penis and vagina/labia. We've talked a little about it when they asked (we aren't shy about nudity in our house) and there was a book we read a little while back called "It's NOT the Stork" that showed the differences inside and out in an age appropriate way.
Ive always just called girl parts a coochie coo and Ive never really explained boy parts to my daughter, she just calls them tails. She called it that while watching a little boys diaper being changed and I guess it stuck. haha.
The twin girls that I watch call their privates "lucy"
We called our boys their "peanuts" with they were babies, toddlers - it's close to penis, right? And the description fit these tiny little uncircumcised peanuts. I'm sure, at 19 and 22, they wouldn't appreciate it if I used that terminology now.
When my daughter was little, she naturally shortened it to 'gina, as in "I washed my 'gina, mommy!" Now we use real terminology.
My mom and dad used to call our privates, boy or girl, our "tinklers." Funny to remember that now.
My cousins done that with their kids. All of them call the boy parts "birdies" and the girl parts "treasures" haha.
My son calls it a pee-pee. He just started calling it that and we haven't corrected him. I actually just posted about this topic today! funny.
Nope, here we say penis and vagina. And I have a boy and a girl (almost 4 and almost 2) who still take baths together so we've pretty much just said boys have a penis and girls have a vagina. Totally Kindergarten Cop, right? :)
My mom is from China, so we used the Cantonese terms for all that :o)
Some of the ones I've heard from years babysitting/daycare working:
Boys: Peach, Pee-Pee, Penie, Wee-wee
I'm Cantonese Chinese and when I was younger, we usually refer to the penis as "geu geu" or "Piggy" as you would translate. :P
Nope. Tell it how it is.
Oh that is so cute: "Why did MY Tigley fell off?"
I grew up in Vietnam (first 9 years) and there, kids run around naked longer than they do here. So it's a bit different.
Boys parts are called "notezo" and girls part is called "peaches". I am sure once my girls are older they will use the correct words but for now this is what it is.
In our house we use penis and vagina.
My friend's kids say "girlness" and "boyness", using "ness" as the term for either gender's private area. I thought that was cute.
@patrickspeaches@xanga - haha, couldn't help but notice the name, lucky Patrick, huh?
@Meahsmom@xanga - lol I was wondering if anyone would catch that!! He is the only "notezo" in a house full of "peaches". I don't know if he would think he is lucky. All the hormones!! lol
My mom the other day was telling me about someone who called their privates "possibles". Lately around here, we've been calling the boy privates "tenders" due to the scene in Kung Fu Panda. But otherwise it's just privates.
regarding your niece's comment about it faling off.. that's really interesting because some well known psychologist's development theory (i think Piaget's?) states that girls think they are lacking something men have... i always thought this was a theory, never knew little girls actually THOUGHT it! nice tie-in to my studies.
We go with Winkie. As in girl winkies and boy winkies. Girl winkies in this house are out numbered since only the hamster and I have them. It's a sausage fest around here. My little ones know the proper terms, they just prefer winkie. I think it's kinda cute.
We refer to them as boy parts and girl parts...
I use MiMi for girl parts cause my daughter cant say Vagina yet, but she has started pointing to peoples private areas and saying MiMi of late, may need to change that lol
In my family we were taught the proper names for our genitalia and I am passing that on to the next generation. From my interactions with other families I would have to say that in our area we are one of the few families who do. I have had more than one parent angry with me because of it. For some reason it seems that in our area the proper names for genitalia are somehow considered dirty words. I talked about it with my gynecologist and he said that he has grown women who come into his office and cannot specify which part of their vaginal area might be having a problem. Grown women who do not know how to correctly label the parts of their own bodies? What is going on in those sex education classes anyway?
I have always used the proper names. I don't believe in giving them nicknames. You don't nickname the arm do you? Why would you any other part?
My kids are 8 and 5 and they both refer to their genitalia as their "privacy" lol