# Parents, how do you deal with the issue of farting with your children? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426 "2016-03-28T02:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/41 "2016-04-16T14:24:37Z")
With a teenage boy, I tell him it is ok to fart around other guys, but if he does that intentionally around girls, he may have trouble getting dates. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/42 "2016-04-18T15:13:54Z")
This phrase gives me the rolling giggles for some reason. I’m thinking book title, or maybe a Sunday morning, public access, TV show. In answer to your question. Farts happen. Farts can be funny. It’s mostly teaching when it is appropriate to laugh and when to just clear your throat and pretend nothing happened. Until they are about 3 or 4 though farts just are. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/43 "2016-04-20T01:37:31Z")
It’s a game around here but both my daughters know better than to do it in public. They would be mortified if it happened accidentally. We refer to it as butt music. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/44 "2016-04-20T03:03:25Z")
We’ve taught our boys, or at least the older one(4), to say “Excuse me” after he farts. Which means that he’ll silently fart and then announce it with an energetic “Excuse me! Toot!” The not-quite 2 year old just farts horrible juicy farts and sharts and just looks at you with one of those 'Whut?" expressions on his face. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/45 "2016-04-21T14:11:01Z")
I just blame the dog. We don’t have a dog, though, so they might be catching on. > [@TBG](#): > > Your kids are probably sneaking off farting in an alley somewhere with the “bad” kids because you didn’t allow them free expression (or free expulsion). It’s a gateway bodily function. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/46 "2016-04-21T14:35:21Z")
In some ways im a terrible parent. I’ve pretty much taught the daughter who toots to laugh about it and the other daughter to say, ‘excuse you’. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/47 "2016-04-23T06:40:54Z")
We deal with it by participating in Friday night contests involving: Volume Odor & Duration Currently, the dog is the big winner. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426/48 "2016-04-24T22:37:30Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It’s a gateway bodily function. Well, if you don’t occasionally open that gate and let some out, eventually it’ll just blow down. Do you really want to risk that happening at a fancy dinner party or when your boss is over for dinner, or some other big hoity toity event that mainly only ever happened in old sitcoms? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-do-you-deal-with-the-issue-of-farting-with-your-children/750426.md?page=2)