What is it with women and the anti-bathroom humor movement?!? My mom was the same way when I was a kid. She would get so serious with me whenever I cracked a potty joke and would tell me that "little girls don't act this way". So I started pretending I was a boy and told her to shove it! Bathroom humor is fun! Don't discourage it, just let it fly!

Whoa. That 7-year-old girl sounds astoundingly normal to me. Seven is the official Age of Scatological Humor, fer pete sake. I agree with TSV that it should be just as permissible for girls to revel in farts, pee and poop as it is for boys. If everyone did that, maybe there wouldn't be such a battleground for the sexes as adults. I mean, instead of merely tolerating their hubby's/boyfriend's penchant for Shameless Farting, the women would actually be equal partners in crime! Just think of the additional bonding they could enjoy -- that extra thing they'd share in common.

But, the constant farting makes me wonder whether the kid is either having digestive problems, maybe due to an unbalanced diet or mild lactose intolerance, or whether she is using farting to bond with the new boyfriend.

Anything ladies do is, by definition, ladylike; which includes pooping and farting.

Go, Jason!

there is nothing wrong by farting in public.

This little girl could be my daughter! I have a 15 yr old son that I pick on terribly.We have a great Mother-Son relationship and joke about "Bathroom" humor all the time.I especially love to get him in Wal-mart and fart real loud and blame it on him!I let it rip then look super horrified at him and say "Young Man!That is very rude!" People look at him and shake their heads. The second we are alone in the aisle we crack up! Recently I bought him a set of those walkie talkies and he turned it on and put it in his back pocket (while we were in Wal-Mart).I sneaked around following him and when he was looking at DVD's an old lady walked up beside him.Thats when I made my move!I keyed up my walkie-talkie and proceeded making farting noises with my mouth and since he had put his walkie-talkie in his back pocket,she thought he was farting!! I will never forget the look on his face when the old lady jumped and looked at him!He took off like a flash and when he found me in the craft dept. we laughed so hard that I had to leave my buggy with all the stuff still in it and leave the store.I know people thought we were drunk or stoned cause we had tears running down our faces and we were snorting.He now turns his walkie-talkie down on low and puts it up in his shirt pocket!

Dixie, you need to write some of this stuff up.

Dixie, try a fart machine. It's wonderful!

Man Dixie I have not laughed that hard for a long time.......That was halarious! I act silly too with my kids but sometimes they get mad at me. Last time I blew a good fart, was when my dog was under the covers sleeping which she always does. Her face was right close to my butt, and man I ripped a mean one, so bad that my daughter left the building...funny thing is Cupcake never budged....LOL

man, tell your daughter to call me when she gets older, she sounds like a lot of fun. you sound like my dad though ;]

Dixie's story above is great! I am going to pull that on Little Dumpster next time we go to Wal-Mart.

The problem with youngsters is teaching them that "for every thing there is a season." As I've related before, LD loves to glare and giggle at me when my stomach rumbles in church. I need to direct this question to PR's resident advice columnist, "Dear ANNus," over on the forums.

Again, PR women RULE!
Society is filled with STOOLS.
EVERYbody in LA/OC is STILL puckered up. A fart is a fart...
If a lady farts in front of me...I say "musta been a good lunch". A BIG smile always follows my statement. What I'm really saying with my smile is "thanks for being real". We ALL fn fart. Its relaxing, and can be fun if planned.

I know....C "my lady neverett" poops will say different...
Dixie..TSV....many others are "cutting" a new path that needs to be.

Asphincter says WHAT...(!)

I just came across this site whilst looking for help in my constant battle against gas. I'm a middle aged single mum and my 9 yr old daughter has to put up with me constantly farting in front of her friends - poor child, I'm worried it will have a long-lasting psychological effect on her! Mothers are supposed to be dignified and lady-like but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it - there's no warning - they just escape, loudly! Fortunately they are not smelly as well!

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Look at the problem from a different angle.

Find out what is makeing her gassy in the first place, and correct her diet.

Other than that, farting is perfectly normal, and natural. Maybee not socially acceptable, but then again, what natural bodily function is these days?
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just leave the kid be. eventually she'll grow out of it or just make loads of guy friends.

What's wrong with the child having a little fun with farting! Gas can be extremely amusing, and can be a stress reducer, both in the colon and in every day life! Let her fart, please.

The connection between persistent farting and constipation can't be dismissed. I've probably told the story before of how when my sister was little she had persistent farting one morning and my mother reacted by sending her to go to the toilet and do and dooey, but she couldn't, so mum put a suppository in her (much to her distress) and she did a big one, and the farts stopped. And drastically decreased after that.

The connection between persistent farting and constipation can't be dismissed. I've probably told the story before of how when my sister was little she had persistent farting one morning and my mother reacted by sending her to go to the toilet and do a dooey, but she couldn't, so mum put a suppository in her (much to her distress) and she did a big one, and the farts stopped. And drastically decreased after that.