As an outsider to this, I have been absolutely horrified with what I have heard coming out the mouths of children in this regard. It can not be healthy for the terrible nasty things that are said about mothers to be heard. I think this is something that should die a natural death and be left to certainly adults in certain contexts, but I think that the really nasty vulgar things that are said, that I think children have no business talking about in any context, are a form of child abuse and sexual harrassment of children..perhaps by other children but nevertheless..and I have heard some of this with my own ears, before I had heard of it as a folklore tradition...and I would tell kids they could not talk that way on my playground period and I hope other people do too. If adults want to do it in private, fine, but the more filthy..not just sexual but dirty and sexual....stuff should not be tolerated in a public arena, and certainly not on school property etc.

There is plenty of other fine appropriate cultural heritage for children to participate in. It is I think traumatic for children to hear their parents being talked about this way, traumatic for older people who have struggled to maintain a sence of decency and personal privacy in a debased culture etc. etc. I think this is very harmful and the filthier aspects of it where children are concerned should be stopped however. mg