When did "butt" become a dirty word?

it became a bad word when people got anal retentive about calling any reproductive or "private part" by it's real name. Sounds like a MIL offensive opinion lol

Are you serious! Im laughing my BUTT off! Lol I don't see anything at all wrong with that word. It's either fanny, tushy, or butt. I go with butt and if no one likes it they can kiss my butt! Lol Im just messing around it just surprises me that people would actually get offended by a 3 year old using the word butt!

EDIT: Bottom and behind....i forgot about those. But i have heard lots of little kids saying butt and i think it's cute. Since it was unexpected it is a little alarming but cute...come they're kids.

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I agree with you! Our son is only 16 months old, but my husband has taught him to call his bottom his bobo. I think it's silly so I still refer to it as a butt or his bottom. When I was teaching preschool I would use the word bottom because I wasn't sure what 20 2 year old's parents were calling it. But...my husband was telling me about a woman he dated who had a little girl who refered to her privates as her 'cookie.' I think it's absolutely ridiculous! An arm is an arm. A leg is a leg. Your head is your head. Your butt is your butt. And...like it or not a vagina is a vagina. I think it's wrong to make our children feel ashamed for actually knowing their body parts, but that's just me.

Seems anymore people are just looking for a reason to be offended, well if my child saying BUTT does it, they can prepare to be offended, ive stopped trying, i never thought id livein a time when the words" merry christmas" were offensive, go figure....well you know what...all of them can have a merry christmas or kiss my BUTT lol.

there isnt a thing wrong with the term BUTT, they have to have something to call it when referring to it, people just need to get over themselves and stay out of other peoples business is all i can say.

Who knows.

Everyone gets offended at the dumbest of things. There are people out there who get offended when children call their body parts by their body parts (ex: a girl calling her vagina a vagina, and a boy calling his penis a penis.) It is not socially acceptable apparently. I think they'd rather he call it his behind.

I'd rather they call it exactly what it is. Sorry, what's the problem with teaching your children again?

edit: I know of a couple who taught their daughter to say kitty to refer to her vagina. I'm sorry, but that is much more offensive than the word vagina to me. I don't think people should use pet names for body parts. And why should we have pet names only for the genitals and butt? No one calls their arm a warmy, no one calls their leg a leggy. The only other exception is feetsies and toesies, but hey, that's cute =]

Also, to the below poster, how is saying "I have to go poop" worse than saying "I have to go potty?" Ugh. People just need to grow thicker skin and stop getting all offended over everything that reaches their childs ears that might not be so sugar-coated.

Well that's stupid considering butt is short for buttocks which is a real term. Its not like a bad word, its just shortening buttocks. Would they be offended if he said "mommy, i fell and hurt my left buttock?"

I would just tell the ppl who are offended that butt is short for buttock, look in a medical encyclopedia.

My 16 month old says booty, lol...

when they are in pre school or even daycare & school too the teachers will say to the children "Please sit on your bottoms" for times when they are on the bus or on the rug for story time. Bottom sounds better than butt. And the Kindergarten & 1st grade kids sometimes laugh at butt. Some are fast to say it's bottom & correct you when you slip.

It's really no big deal to me either. They just do it this way in school.

man that bugs me whe people will say pooted instread of fart.

Great question!!!!

I taught my oldest to say 'bottom' but I never corrected him when he got a little older and said butt. I wonder why I did that in the first place?!! lol

I found out he got in trouble for saying 'fart' yesterday. I'm still trying to figure that one out. I know there are better words but come on!!

I am not saying this to be rude, but just to throw another opinion out there. I think it is very crass when a child uses words like "butt", "crap" or even shut up that have become an accepted within society. Its not that they are "dirty" words, rather they are not age appropriate. In this crazy world, my job is to keep my kids innocent as long as possible so they can be a kid, and I really think that is through the details in life. My daughter says bottom, and I do not feel that we are tramatizing her.