As to calling a vagina a vagina its actually a safety measure too apparently it can empower an abuser for a child to call it a childish name (ie. Flower, hoohar, mickey, fanny etc). And there have been awful stories about parents not knowing what their children mean because they didn't use the right terminology and they went abused unnoticed. We have vagina's and penis' in this house... Paris has no idea of any other names.
At school when we teach Child Protection we have to teach the kids the correct names as part of the unit. Its as stated previously, so that in cases of sexual abuse children can be very specific about what has happened. You do have some funny moments with the kindies though, I had a little boy who told me that girls have volvos!!( You do all the areas not just the penis and vagina)
It's vagina and Penis in our house that way it should be, it was funny when Reny and Reth found out what was the difference between them and Rory.
We explained and then Reny said "Yeah but daddy's is bigger!" and Reth said "No daddy's not bigger it's hugiiiie!" (Nudity is not a problem in our house) But that was indeed funny, Memories!!!
And now Reth says "Daddy has a penis and mummy has a vagina"
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