My kids, 5 and 6 are obsessed with butts. Butt-crack is suddenly the funniest word in the world and pretty much any talk of any one's private areas is "SO HILARIOUS" that I can't ever even say something serious without them cracking up. Literally every session of knock-knock jokes or pictionary turns into someone saying butt or drawing a butt etc. Of course my 2 year old picks up on it too and when she is getting dressed she makes sure to yell, "BUTT OUT!!!" because she knows the other two will crack up. Is this normal for kids to think butts etc are sooo funny? I thought the whole "potty humor" came earlier than 6 years old? I don't know whether to punish them or laugh with them! Have to add also, that they don't do this at school or in public... but at home it seems like it is all of the time.
TEHEHEHE! I'm 44 years old, and to me, FARTS are still hilarious!
(well you gotta know when is NOT the right time to use such language or giggle about someone ELSE using it, butt, still! BAHAHAWAHA!
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Butt-crack!!! hahahahahahahahaha. Thank you for that!
Just wait in a couple of years the word broccoli will make them crack up. My fifth graders thought that was just the funniest word ever. ???
Ahhhhh. I needed a laugh.
Laugh with them. A new topic of humor will come up soon.
Humor is healthy.
In the whole scheme of things, this is pretty benign. It's a part of childhood- ahem, and adulthood (given the pride my husband has in his own flatulence). When my kids were little, we were more about trying to keep the butt talk to a minimun when in the presence of others. However, things can get pretty darn hysterical at my house, given that I have 4 of my own and it's rare that I don't have at least one extra (today, it's 3). I've found that the girls can be worse than the boys!!! LOL! We have even come up with names to describe ourselves - My hubby is Chief Angry Wind, my l12 yr old son is Smells of Death, so on and so on.
We must have rules, so no farting at the dinner table.
First comes butt, then comes poop, then comes fart...they love that talk. I teach 4th grade and cannot get through the digestive system w/o tons of giggles when we talk about poop and farts.
Im just laffin. Kids are so freakin hilarious. The littlest, simplest things amuse them. Just laugh, but dont forget to remind them that it's house rules only and not too funny when out in public. The taboo things are always hilarious for some reason.
Oh man... it never ends. For us the fascination was poop, then farts, then burps, and now diarrhea is hilarious. And this is mostly from my dear sweet DAUGHTER! lol! My son announced to me the other day that he could burp anytime he wanted and then proceeded to walk around the house burping as often as he was able.
Our rule is that there's a time and a place to be crude and silly like that. So while I'll join in with made up knock knock jokes about pinky stinky underwear when we're just playing around, they can't talk like that at the dinner table or when company is around.
My kids' favorite youtube farting video is monkey farts. FITS of laughter!
laugh with them.
Butts are funny, not matter how hold you are.
you can get them to use a funnier and ultimately better word for it
hiney , hiney is a funny word.
Totally normal,my 9 yr old still thinks butts are funny.
ROFL Mom4S!!!!!!!!
It's basically all kids (and most grown men & some women) who think butts and anything having to do with butts or what comes out of them is hysterical. I have made sure my daughter knows there is absolutely no tolerance for that kind of talk outside of our house. That is just me, now if she's giggling about something with a friend or her cousin, fine, I make sure it doesn't get out of hand. But, at home, I pretty much let it go. Its funny, and it's innocent right now. I say, have a laugh, and move on.
You Tube "Jurassic Fart." You will be on the floor laughing! Totally appropriate for kids, too.
My three year old son would let you know that the answer to your question is simple.
"We don't talk about butts. It's not polite."
My dad taught my kids that, butts, farting, pooping, is HILARIOUS!! I, dont think its funny, so when they are around my dad they have a good time with it. But when they are around me I dont get much of a kick out of it and its not so cool. Just ignore them, they will get over it.
My kids are 8 and 6 and think that stuff is hilarious. Do any of us really outgrow that stage? :-) I think that as long as they know not to bring it up in school or in public, there's nothing wrong with it. Dennydo32 mentioned the Captain Underpants books, which is immediately what I thought of when I read your post. These books are hilarious and my kids love them, and it got them really interested in reading chapter books. We ended up buying the whole series (there are only eight of them) and they've read them two or three times. When I first read them I wasn't sure what to think, but I saw how hilarious they thought it was, so I decided it was harmless (as long as they knew that it is only appropriate among family).
However, when they repeat things over and over again, I get a little tired of it, so I always try to redirect them if it's getting out of hand. I will try to get them to do something else, or I will tell them "Okay, we've talked a lot about this, let's talk about something else." Usually distraction works pretty well if you're tired of hearing it. But yes, it is totally normal (at least, for our family). :-)
My dad is still in the potty stage and he is 64. I think it is funny but my M. has no sense of humor and no tolerance for anyone (not even herself,) I found it the most irritating when my kids were about 10. I just let them have their fun but told them that there was a time to be serious.
Oh yeah - so normal. They are thriving on the reaction. I'd just act bored and leave the room without comment. If they ask, say you've heard it before and it's kind of old. If you're in the pictionary game, you can say it's not fun anymore. There are only a certain number of knock knock jokes that can truly make sense with "butt" in them - most likely they're just making nonsensical jokes ending in "butt." Just sit there stone-faced like you don't get it (since you don't - it makes no sense). They'll phase out when it's not getting a reaction. Meantime, be thrilled that they don't do it in school. Someone (not necessarily them) probably did it once and got reprimanded, so your kids learned that it's not appropriate. It may be the sort of thing that goes on during the bus ride or at recess, and they see everyone else cracking up (ooops - pun not intended!) so they are going for the reaction. I would make a point of ignoring it and/or ending games where you are expected to endure butt jokes - tell them you'll rejoin them when they stop sounding like a broken record.
It's a phase - they'll grow out of it, and the less reaction they get from you, the faster they will tire of it.
They don't do it at school.
They do it at home.
So at least they know, where and where not to.
It is a phase.
They think it is funny.
I remember going through "gross" phases as a kid too.
Potty jokes etc.
It will pass!
Are they boys?? My son and both of my neighbors sons think this is hilarious. Anything sounding like a fart noise has them rolling on the floor and stinky underpants is a favorite name they call each other. It seems the more boys you get together the funnier it becomes. I have to admit I am trying to use my sons love of this humor to encourage reading so we go to the library and get the Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants books and for the first time my son will sit for an hour while I read to him in silly voices. Traaa Laaaa Laaa Laaaaaa (as Captain Underpants would say) If you can't beat them join them. SOOO NORMAL
