ABSTRACT:
This paper discuss the obscene childhood, one of childhood culture expression, consisting on different jokes, riddles, rhymes, drawings shared between children pair groups, that adults understands being obscene. In the dialogue with academic production about the theme on childhood folklore, sociology of childhood and psycholinguist studies, the research consisted on an observation on classroom daily life of a group of children between 6 and 7 years old in a private school. It was possible to identify that the theme did not take place on school daily life, only being developed in a schooling situation, conducted by the teacher. On that occasion, using adults’ fragments, children tried to understand bad words meanings, uses and the causes of its interdiction. It was possible to identify the singularity of the group perspective, related to their socio-cultural background.
Keywords:
childhood culture; childhood folklore; obscene childhood