Would you ever instruct your little girl not to use the word "vagina"--because it's "not ladylike"? Have you ever known anyone who was so ignorant it made you shudder that they had influence over kids?

I was floored! My granddaughter was here today—my daughter and the father aren’t married, so Brande spends about half the time with her Dad. Well, she tells me, “Yesterday I was really muddy! I got mud on my face, and in my hair and on my….um….” and is pointing at her vagina region.
I said, “On your vagina?”
She said, “Oh! Daddy said I can’t say that word any more because it’s not lady like!”
I was dumbfounded! I said, “Well, uh…that’s what it is! Like your fingers or ears…what ARE you going to call it?”
She says, “I don’t know….um, I don’t remember.” She ponders for a second then looks at me kind of defiantly and states, “I need to wash my vagina!”
I said, “Almighty then! In the tub with you!”
(As a funny aside….I handed her a small, worn down bar of white soap to wash with. As she gets out she says, “My mom doesn’t have vagina soap.”
I laughed and said, “Nobody has vagina soap! You just use regular soap!”
She says, “Well, what’s that!” and points to this little bar of, apparently, vagina soap! I just cracked up! So did my daughter….after she shook her head over Dad’s…whatever.)