"Nuts" in our house; be they mine, the boys', the dog, or on bulls. My wife was also a little shocked by this, but thats what I grew up calling them on the farm. Seems fairly innocuous, although we encourage them to not discuss their nuts with just anyone.

While we actually call boy parts and girl parts by their more clinical names that particular boy part hasn't come up in conversation. So I guess I'm no help.

Perhaps you could consult the Right Rev. Jackson.

Sounds like a good idea for a best selling book. I'd have some good contributions.

That post made me laugh out loud. I read it to my wife, and she just shook her head. You see, I too loathe calling it by its clinical name, and thus use all kinds of descriptive terms, which my twin boys (and their older sister) have picked up. My wife is also utterly mortified.

Might I suggest "twig and berries" or "frank and beans" for use with young Issac?

One of our boys once had to go to the doctor, around the age of 2, to have some work done on his parts. Let's just say that things had healed back together which shouldn't have. He returned home saying "Mommy... twiggy owwww!" His mother was thoroughly unimpressed with his newly expanded vocabulary. I was grinning from ear to ear.

Good luck with your search for a suitable descriptive term.

Yes, but how's his aim?

Austin Powers could really help out here. I already see "twig and berries" mentioned, but I'm sure there were more in the first Austin Powers movie....wedding tackle is one that comes to mind, but I'm not sure a little boy would find that very useful!

"stuff."

Our parts, 'round these parts, are our "stuff."

So far... my children have yet to confuse "Go pick up your stuff," with "Let go of your stuff."

A couple of years ago, my (then) 4 year old asked for the clinical terms, I told him. He pretty much repeated them for confirmation, shrugged, and still calls it his stuff.

We're good.

Johnson and Masters?

Just a thought.

My 8 year old tried to say privates when he was younger and it came out PIRATES, so we use that quite often. We also use the term NUTHERS...not sure how we came up with that other than it's short for other regions (of the body)

We call them private parts. I can't do the clinical terms either.

My eldest, when he was almost three, asked, "Mom, what it's name?" (he was putting underwear on and it was on his mind, I guess.)

I told him he didn't get to name it until he went to college.

We call it "parts" but don't have specific terms for the different parts. Then again, my son is only 9 months old, so we don't have to worry about it quite yet!

When my grandson was about 3 y.o. he slipped getting out of the bathtub and landed with the edge in his crotch. As I held him on my lap, he was rocking back and forth holding himself. Suddenly he stopped, looked up at me like the light had just dauwned and said, "Oh! Balls!"

I thought everyone knew that they were called "the family jewels"?

I've found the term "boys" to be useful. For example, "leave your boys alone". I picked it up from an old Seinfeld episode.

The parts that come in duplicate I usually call, "my grandchildren".. especially when danger is lurking close.. As in, "Hey, be careful with my grandchildren!" I suppose this technically refers to the contents and potentiality therein rather than the parts themselves in the gestalt, though!

Everything in me cannot believe I am responding to this...but as the mother of 3 boys I feel compelled

We call them "Chones." Because, I must clarify, we live on a farm, that is what we call them on the bulls.

Oh the wealth of wisdom I have!

This is my first time to your blog and you have me laughing out loud. We have 2 girls and just had our first boy 2 weeks ago... and I too am at a loss for names for his "outdoor" plumbing... but it won't be the clinical names... I can assure you that. Call me a weenie but those names give me the heebie-geebies.

We are the parents of boys...all boys. This topic came up over the weekend during a wrestling session, & I realized our term for the body part is: Tenders. As in when your brother's knee is in the wrong place & you cry "watch my tenders!" he knows exactly what you mean.

The term "tenders" was used in the recent Kung Fu Panda movie, which may be where your boys got it (although I don't know where the movie got it from). It works.

We have four boys and five girls. The boys are not shy about asking about and sharing the names for various body parts with the rest of us.

At a yooung age we often have family terms for things. Then when they get older we eventually explain the official words for it, but still mostly use the family words anyway.

Guys...come on. Why is everyone so afraid of the word? Say it with me: PENIS!

(ahem)

But of course that's only the one part. For the entire set, I'm simply using 'stuff' or, to later blend in with the crowd without being too awful crass, 'junk' is my preference.

I have a two year old son, and while this subject hasn't really been an issue yet, we refer to the entire area as his package, his penis as his tinkler (I have a feeling that as he gets bigger, someone - him or daddy - will object to this name), and since we pretty much refer to daddy's other privates as his "satchel", it will probably stick. I like "tenders" though, as per a previous poster.

In my family, the names are constantly evolving. We used to call the parts nuts, balls, berries, stones, jewels...etc. It never really mattered, it always turned into a great opportunity for a Bevis and Butthead routine. (huh, huh, he said jewels). Just relax, go with the flow. NPI