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'bits' sounds fine to me, sort of matter of fact...neither to fanciful or too gynaecological - pretty sure its what my daughter uses also.

It's 'bits' in our house as well

'Bits' it is .

My DS & DiL say 'girl-bits'. (Also vaj!)
DGD only just starting to talk, tho, so don't know how it'll go later on.

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It was twinkle in our house - I must check what the DDs say to their girls!!

Funnily enough my DGD came and said something to DD this evening and referred to her bits as Foufou - she is a young adult so I imagine that is what her age group call it.

One of my DDs when about 4 was examining her bits and announced "There's a label down here" - OH and I came up with various suggestions as to what the label might say! - "Handle with care" maybe!

I think fou fou is french?

My mum used to refer to my bits as Pamela - I was always a bit puzzled when I met people of that name!

My MiL referred to it as her undercarriage.

Whatever her DP use perhaps?

Exactly. Ask your DIL what she'd like you to say.

My DiL (and hence my GD, also aged 5) refer to their tuppence! Never heard that before. My GS (8) was crying in pain because his younger brother kicked him in the 'no no zone'

I've heard the phrase 'keep your hand on your ha'penny', Anya, but not your tuppence!

Bottom, front and back.

Inflation Ana?

Part of my work involved training police and social workers on interviewing children who alleged sexual abuse. The number of words children use to describe their genitals can get in the way of understanding what they're trying to tell you. I'd never heard "flower" as a description for your tuppence!

If only we all used vagina/penis

But vagina would be incorrect Iam the external genitalia is the vulva.

No wonder there's confusion and 'bits' is used instead!

Front bum and back bum.

I remember telling my two girls the (official)words for their various 'bits'....but a little later they hadn't got one of them quite right...one referred to her 'liquorice' and the other to her 'ticklish'!

Same here, Iam64. Introductory training exercise (bet you had the same one?) was to get one male and one female to lie down on a sheet of wallpaper lining, get someone to draw round their profile and then give them 20 minutes to write on the paper all the different names and euphemisms for intimate parts of the body. The list was endless, but they ended up with some knowledge of how children refer to those body parts. The important thing is that children know the correct words, even if they don't use them as frequently as professionals would prefer.

It makes me think of that wonderful line in "Calendar Girls" where Annette Crosbie says indignantly that there will be no "front bottoms"!

My DGD's say "FouFou" aswell Bez They are 7 and (almost) 9. We had a giggle when they watched the film The Aristocats when the french horse called Miss FouFou came prancing along. The girls thought it was hysterical that a horse should be called after their girly bits.