My boyfriend once told me a story about how when he was little his mother used to refer to private parts as "pookies." So, one day my boyfriend was watching Garfield, and Garfield's bear stuffed animal just happened to be named "Pookie." Considering the fact that he had grown up thinking that "pookie" was a word meant to describe your no no zones he thought it was the most obscene thing he had ever heard.

I was just wondering if anyone else had parental nicknames for private parts, or funny stories having to do with said names? less

Quite the opposite - I always used anatomically correct names with my two kids: "vagina" and "penis". So, in pre-school my daughter was about 4, maybe 5 and said to the teacher while in the bathroom "I need toilet paper to wipe my vagina" and one of the other girls yelled "oooh.. she said a bad word!!!!"

I was told about it that afternoon, by a laughing teacher who said most kids are used to silly names like "Cookie" or "hoo haa" and that the 'graphic' descriptor probably upset the other child. I said I wasn't bowing to that nonsense, so if the other parents complain, I hoped the teachers would back me up.

Happily, I never heard another peep about it. less

Quite the opposite - I always used anatomically correct names with my two kids: "vagina" and "penis". So, in pre-school my daughter was about 4, maybe 5 and said to the teacher while in the bathroom "I need toilet paper to wipe my vagina" and one of the other girls yelled "oooh.. she said a bad word!!!!"

I was told about it that afternoon, by a laughing teacher who said most kids are used to silly names like "Cookie" or "hoo haa" and that the 'graphic' descriptor probably upset the other child. I said I wasn't bowing to that nonsense, so if the other parents complain, I hoped the teachers would back me up.

Happily, I never heard another peep about it. less

Quite the opposite - I always used anatomically correct names with my two kids: "vagina" and "penis". So, in pre-school my daughter was about 4, maybe 5 and said to the teacher while in the bathroom "I need toilet paper to wipe my vagina" and one of the other girls yelled "oooh.. she said a bad word!!!!"

I was told about it that afternoon, by a laughing teacher who said most kids are used to silly names like "Cookie" or "hoo haa" and that the 'graphic' descriptor probably upset the other child. I said I wasn't bowing to that nonsense, so if the other parents complain, I hoped the teachers would back me up.

Happily, I never heard another peep about it. less

I had no sisters, but my parents called it different names.. Peter.. wackus.. willy. Things like that. We have a pretty frank approach to sex with our kids, however, and explain things as they are.

I think it's kind of silly that we treat words in general in this fashion.

Example: In school there was a fairly large group we called the Bible Club. I had friends in this club, as I'm not one to judge on such things and have Christian roots in my upbringing anyways. However, I would get dirty looks from said friends for my use of profanity.. I would say 'shit' and they would say 'crap' and I look at them cross-eyed because they mean the same damn thing.

Terry Goodkind illustrated this point in his fiction where one of the characters said 'Bags!' as an expletive. We should form together and make up our own expletives.

My vote is for 'snarf'. less

My boyfriend once told me a story about how when he was little his mother used to refer to private parts as "pookies." So, one day my boyfriend was watching Garfield, and Garfield's bear stuffed animal just happened to be named "Pookie." Considering the fact that he had grown up thinking that "pookie" was a word meant to describe your no no zones he thought it was the most obscene thing he had ever heard.

I was just wondering if anyone else had parental nicknames for private parts, or funny stories having to do with said names? less