Maxi came running home from the green the other week
“Mummy, Mini has been teabagged”
Now forgive me, but I had no idea what teabagged was, but it didnt sound good. So I dedided to look it up on Wikipedia and safe to say I was gobsmaked and decided that I needed to investigate further.
So I got the boys together and asked them to demonstrate to me what teabagging was (with some trepidation as to what I was going to see). Maxi made Mini kneal on the floor and then ground his pubic area in his face, which thankfully isnt exactly teabagging, I tried very hard to keep a straight face and look suitably offended by what I had just seen.
It left me with no alternative to try and describe to my five and six year old just what tea bagging is and why it is unacceptable to do to anyone. Thankfully we have always discussed their anatomy with the correct names, so I explained that it mean putting a boys testicular area or scrotum in someone’s mouth and making them gag on them and I also explained that it is bullying and they should not do it and they should not let other people do it to anyone either.
Both the boys were aware that it wasn’t a nice thing as they refused to tell me who had been doing the teabagging, but I never imagined having to explain it to my young children.
I guess this is just the start and guess what is is so hard to keep a straight face!
LOL ! I know I’d be mortified but I laughed till I nearly wee-ed when I read this. When I separated from my 1st hubby he went through a bit of a mid life sexual crisis. How I laughed when our son hung himself out of the bedroom window once when we went over for a ‘look kids mummy and daddy can still be civil to each other’ BBQ with a butt plug in his hand shouting ‘mummy look a microphone!’
After screaming “DO NOT PUT THAT NEAR YOUR MOUTH!” I took my self off to the loo to laugh.
Annie » I have just spat my tea out at your comment!
Good grief. I thought it was something to do with folding paper to make cards.
The Coffee Lady » You and me both, you learn something new everyday, although I would have rather not have that image in my head!
What is so shocking is that another young child sort of knows the real meaning behind this slang, sexual term and has been either bragging about it, trying it out or (as you say) bullying others.
Do you have any idea who the boys were playing with on the green? Is there any way you can find out? I’m not even sure how to approach another parent with this dilemma, to be honest.
I laugh and cringe A LOT when hear J come out with some expressions or how he understands adult-style jokes on tv but he’s at high school now, has a much older siblings and we’ve always been quite an open family with regards to language, tv and computer games. But I know for a fact that he woudn’t have known what teabagging was at M & M’s ages.
And, yes, I guessed what this was about before I clicked on it – I was hoping it was something else. *guilty snigger*
Nickie » I now know who was the child involved and to be honest no point in going to the parents, as they would just tell me to PO or something much stronger. They still have their Christmas lights up!
I was horrified, but we decided that we have to explain to the boys that it really was bullying and not something that they should repeat or find funny.
OMG! Well they are going to be well educated at least. It reminds me of a South Park episode and a dog. Let’s leave it at that…great choice of matching picture lol
The Moiderer » Cheers! It is so hard, they look like butter wouldn’t melt sometimes. I am sorry that you are having a hard time of things
I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but…. “teabagging” is not putting the scrotum in the mouth.
Teabagging is done in the “69” position (teabagger on top and facing partner’s feet) and inserting the penis into the partner’s mouth, so that the scrotum flaps against their forehead (or over their eyes) with each thrust – like a wet teabag…. thus, the name.
It has nothing to do with choking on anything, unless the person doing the teabagging is extremely well endowed.
Marcheline » Someone needs to update wiki then, I think I will stick to my version with the boys at the moment!
Gosh I too have learnt something new. Tea bags to me were something you make a refreshing cuppa with, a form of craft and what my now grown up son called ravioli when I asked him what he had for his school dinner when he was about mini’s age.
Sadly children hear too much from the adult world too young nowadays
Wendy » I agree, it is from being at school, we can only shelter them for so long and by telling them the truth that is is nasty, bullying and unacceptable I hope that they learn to not take part
Oh dear, I wonder where they have heard that at such a young age. I knew what teabagging was (not having taken part in it myself I must add) so you can imagine how much I had to stop myself from laughing when Wee Z, my 3 yr old, said I love teabagging as he helped me make a cup of tea. Bless him, he was squeezing the tea bag for me.
On a more serious note, I really admire how you’ve dealt with this being completely honest with them and not just telling them that it is bad and not to repeat it again. That’s the sort of approach I’m going with though fingers crossed nothing has come up…yet!
LauraCYMFT » I guess this is what happens when you can no longer control their environment and they get involved with bigger children. We have one child that is particularly shocking. No point in going to his parents as they would tell me where to go. We try and be open and honest with the boys, I do not want to embarrass them and feel that by giving full disclosure they learn why things are unacceptable.
Blimey. I thought it was a craft activity, albeit it one I haven’t felt very compelled to try.
I’m struggling to come up with a reason (pardon the pun) why anyone would even give this a name, never mind tell a 5 year old about it!
Jen, thank you for enlightening me! I would never have had the nerve to google it.
However, kudos for the best put down of modern times ‘they still have their Christmas lights up’. I’m so using that!
I suspect the kids will have picked up tea bagging from video games. You can make the game characters crouch over the head of a dead or fallen opponent and it looks a bit like tea bagging. I get the impression it happens when playing online against other (immature) people.
So there’s a good chance the child who brought it up didn’t understand the fine details.
Sorry that should say “the OTHER kids will have picked up tea bagging from video games”, I didn’t mean to imply yours heard about it that way.
Another Goldfish » I have to say my boys have not been exposed to those sort of games, but it is a worry to me
Yes my son is nearly 12 & I know players do this on some of the xbox games. I am quite aware that my son the angel with wings & a halo!!who butter would not melt in his mouth. Probably does it as well to his xbox buddies, vice versa. Sometimes I think if kids/friends have older brothers etc
I guess it would have been hard to keep a straight face when being told this by them!. We have to do that stern wrong face.
But equally they are on this lifes journey and these things pop up along the way(spoken from mum of a very nauuggghhhttty teenage daughter and i mean very.xx
treatingeachdayasanewdayrs everyday » I think thay computer games have a lot to answer for. They blur the line between real life and what is acceptable and something I am going to have to look out for
goodness me! The things I have to look forward too!
Lindy » I am not sure if this was a boy thing
Oh my god! Bless em. The joys of children eh.
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Trayci » Indeed, it is so hard. I sometimes wish I had a mannual
hmmmm – no Prison Break fans here? That’s apparently how T-Bag got his name…
Alison » No, I have never actually seen prison break
“goodness me! The things I have to look forward too!”
Yeah Lindy – try it out it’s good fun!
Dave » Ha ha ha, I am not sure how to respond to that one!
Wow- this is definitely one for the wedding day!! Hilarious!
Alice » Indeed it is, oh the trials of children!
Am I the only one who doesnt agree with what you did. You should have just told them that it was wrong and not to do that again. Now all that will happen is that your son will go explaining it to some other poor kid who will tell his horrified Mum. I love my childrens innocence and would be thinking there was something seriously wrong if my 5 year old came home describing a sexual act of putting a scrotum in his mouth!! Big difference between that and what your children demonstrated dont you think?
Visitor » You are entitled to your opinion, I just wish you didn’t feel that you needed to be anonymous. We thought long and hard before we explained it to the boys, we left them with the thought that teabagging was what they explained, until it happened the decond time to Mini. Them we felt the need to explain. We have always been open and honest with the boys about body parts etc and called them by the real terms. As far as I am aware they havent told any other children, it was just a conversation that we had with them. I do not think I have shattered their innocence or any other child’s. I hope by learning that these acts are wrong the boys will not do them to others,
If your kids hang out with any American kids, they might have heard the term from them. Teabagging has become a common term over here. After the Tea Party started, some commentator, I can’t remember who, Matthews or Stewart I think, called the Tea Party a bunch of teabaggers. Since then the term has become a common insult, and I have no trouble believing some kid overhearing it and getting a hasty crotch explanation from the adult.