Langauge

I know some people think I'm crazy for having such strict language rules in our house, but I just can't help it. It is the way I was raised. At this house we say "bottom" instead of "butt" and "toot" instead of "fart" and "potty" instead of "pee". Now, I know that they will eventually use these words in their everyday conversations (as do I, to be honest.) However, I just feel like young children should learn the most polite term first, until they are old enough to know in what situations to use the most polite term, and when it is okay to just use the slang.

People say butt, fart, and pee around my kids all the time, but my little darlings have never repeated it once. Until today. This is how it happened: My mom's friend Rebecca called last minute this afternoon to invite us to the water park. Drew and Julianna were still sleeping, so Rebecca said she would come by and pick up Lily. So, when I told Lily to grab her swimming suit she started to strip naked in front of the open front door. I suggested that she go in the bathroom so that Rebecca wouldn't see her changing. Her answer? "So no one will see my butt??" Then she just looked at me all testing like, oh, i've dropped the bomb. what's mom going to do now?! I didn't say anything right away (i was trying to decide how best to respond) so, for good measure, Lily said it a couple more times, "butt, butt, butt!!" I know that if I had made a giant deal about it she would still be screaming BUTT for everyone in the world to hear. So, instead, I calmly came down to her eye level. I said in a very quiet and motherly voice, "I know that some people say butt. However, in this house we say bottom because it is more polite." She was quiet for a minute, and then said, "Butt people are nice. I want to be a butt person." Now, what exactly is a person supposed to say to that?? I just let it go. She hasn't said it again, and I think she got the idea.