Don't Nickname Body Parts | Parenting Uncovered | Dave & Ashley Willis

It's important to use real words. You know, these parents that are afraid to say penis or vagina and they've got all these weird code words like oh, you're hoo hoo and you're haha. I mean, it's like, what are you talking about?

And that was. I think that's generational with us, maybe. And I do think that that narrative is shifting. But even if you've had any kind of like thought, should I give, you know, it a nickname? There's been some research that's been done about kids basically are, are more likely to be preyed upon for like, sexual abuse and things like that if they do not know the actual terms of their body parts, if it has a little nickname. These predators can be playful in the way they, they talk about these things and basically they can play around that with the kids. Like it's just this playful thing and I'm not doing anything wrong. And, and so really we want to educate our kids on first of all, what the body parts are actually called, and secondly, that they have license, okay, over their bodies.