Pet names for kids

[crazydazy]

Since DS was a baby I have called him "Mogs". I think its because he reminded me of Mogwai in Gremlins when he was first born!!! (Bad mother I am), even now I shout "Mogs" in the street and he will respond to me.

[meggymoo]

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[MarsLady]

If you ask DD2 (7) what her name is she will reply Lumpy

We've called her Lumpy since she's been inside me.

We call DT2 Fatboy and DT1 slim cos there's about a 6lb difference between them.

[JoolsToo]

Rover is a good pet name

[Dophus]

Foo Foo
monkey
minkey
monkey minkey
mini minkster (who so you think you are)
munchkin
minchie
baby bear

[Micku5]

dd's nickname is bubble. DH named her that after a few hours and it's stuck. If i ask her are you my angel? she says yes 'angel bubble'

[sandyballs]

Bella Boo - no idea why

[SleepySuzy]

Evie weavie pudding and pie

[Tommy]

my DS2 is called Teacup my me, DH and DS1 - very often in public. Just sounds normal to me but it's not until someone who doesn't know him very well comments on it that I realise it's not a "usual" nickname!

[lunavix]

shtink, shtinky, senor shtinky, shtinky winky, winky, little man, widdle man (don't ask) widdleness, blondie, sir shtinks a lot...

I doubt he'll ever know his own name.

[steffee]

Dh calls ds1 JM, which are his initials. My dad calls him JJ. His name is Jonathan, but when he first learnt his name he said Jossesson so me and dh sometimes call him that and he answers to all of them.

DD sometimes gets called Berba by dh, because when she was born, ds1 was 2 and pronounced her name Becca, as Berba. Her name is actually Rebecca but we call her Becca, though her brother calls her Becky.

DS2 has his name shortened from Ciaran to Key by his brother and sister, though not by us. Dh sometimes calls him Key Key.

[milosmum]

i think mogs is cute- to me nicknames are just an affectionate bond. i call my DS "tiggs"- as in tigger- no idea why, i just started doing it..... DH calls him TED and always has done

[melgreenmum]

I think Mogs is fine I have a cousin mog who is a girl and think that nicknames give individuality but they should be at the consent of the nicknamee if they can express a preference.

[Monstersmum]

Julio McGulio! Don't know why

Manu Man - he couldn't say Matthew at first and called himself Manu

He has decide he doesn't like Matthew and wants to be called "Fred Johns"!!!!!!!!!

I think he'll end up as Matt which is fine by me.

[oooggs]

chops & chopsy wops - no idea

[Mytwopenceworth]

Is this what we call them to their faces or what we call them behind their backs at the end of a looooooong day?!!

[swiperfox]

FinlayBear, finlayboo, finlaybob, cheekyboy all for ds!

dd hasn't really got one - just shortenings of her name - oh, sweetie pie!

[SherlockLGJ]

MTPW


ROFL

[emkana]

Schaetzchen (for both)
Mauselinchen (for both)
Maeuse (when talking to both dd's at the same time)
Suesse (for both)
Can you tell I'm not English?

Tashbee (for dd2, derived from her name)

[emkana]

Oh, and shtinky for dd2!

[littlesteppers]

my ds is wee man, or chunky monkey
dh calls dd muppet, i am forever telling him its horrid, but one day he called someone else it and she went beserk, saying "im muppet, me no one else"

strange

[gigglinggoblin]

duck egg
rat bag (well deserved)
boo boo

get them mixed up if i use their real names

[Donbean]

ASBO boy, you need to read my begging terrible twos threads....

[BadHair]

Dses arepPumpkin or pudding, and occasionally sweetpea. Only really at bedtime as in "night night pumpkin, sleep tight".
Occasionally I call them mister, as in "come on, mister, time to go".
I used to work in a supermarket and had a customer who came in every week with her baby daughter, who she called Sausage. I was in there last week for the first time in ages, and she was there too with the daughter, who is now a teenager. And yes, she called her Sausage. So it just goes to show how pet names can stick!