Do your young children call you by your first names?

[DuckyMcDuck]

as opposed to Mum/Dad etc

Obviously it's different for step-children, but a friend of DS's and his siblings have always called their parents by their first names.

It's made me wonder if it's a common thing and interested in the reasons why.

Only the ones that refer to themselves in the third person.

Yes sometimes. My DD started it as soon as she could reasonably talk; she finds it amusing. She also uses DHs pet name for me. She's almost 5 now. I definitely prefer Mummy, but she rarely calls me that, its either Mum, or my name. Her little brother copies her but I'm certain he wouldn't use my name of his own accord.

I would have preferred this but I didn’t want DH to be Daddy and me to be Blod.

There’s no huge reason behind it other than I don’t like Mum or Mummy.

My youngest does - for a bit of a laugh initially I think but it’s stuck for a couple of years now. Doesn’t bother me although my eldest never does it and I would never have dreamed of calling my parents by their names!

Ds went through a phase of doing it. I didn't mind

Personally for me I would never let my child call me by my name, I'm mum or mummy to them. That's just me, I respect everyone has different views.

My youngest dbro did it about 4yrs old (He was always very different) and my other dbro and I ended up gradually morphing to use my dps first names from mummy and daddy and still do now as 40 somethings - it has caused questions in the past on family holidays and outings but it’s just what we do and I think we all like it

DS2 sometimes uses my name when he's being cheeky.

I remember him in the cot shouting "Mummy! Mummy!!! BOGROLL!!!!!" before I had chance to respond to the first call.

My 3yr old does it thinking it’s hilarious. Often she will call for me “mummy I’m awake, mummy, mummy, OnlyFOols”
My husband is less amused

My son called me by my first name until he was about 3, never mum. It wasnt until he started nursery and they referred to me as mum that he started to.

One of mine does, he has since he was about 5. He is autistic and always wants to know people's names so he can call them by the right name

My DD does if we're out shopping in London and she wants to look sophisticated "Ooh, Lynette, what do you think of this top?" Otherwise it's "Muuum where are my trainers?"

When I have a nightmare I will still call out for my Mum. I can't imagine calling out "Dorothy" rather than Mum, which is so easy to say. I do know families where children call their parents by their first name and feel a little sorry for them. But maybe that's because I have very positive connections to the word "Mum".

Me and DH are called by our first names by our 2 and 4yr olds. It was a choice; we both prefer it. Both DS's know that we are their mum and dad.

my SIL is irish and her DC call their grandmother (SILs mum) "mum". SIL is mammy and their dad (my brother, biological dad married to their mum and lives with them) is Chris. no idea why but theyve done it since birth. i dont even think theyre being funny, they just call him Chris and he happily responds. they dont even get "dad" cards...they get "chris" cards made on moonpig.

(chris is his actual name, they dont just call him it randomly.)

I’m not sure that my DTs know I have a name other than mama/mummy/mummeeeeeeeeeeeee! To each their own, but I wouldn’t like for my own kids to call me by my name. Luckily DD has stopped calling me Dog - if she hadn’t maybe I’d have taught her to say tootired instead.

Mine don't, I nudged them to switch from Mummy and Daddy to Mum and Dad around the time they started school as I never did like Mummy but they've never tried using our firstnames. Not sure how I'd feel about it TBH, we both still call our parents Mum and Dad so it would seem a bit strange.

i refer to my DM as an abreviation of her first name when i want to piss her off. Think "Sharon" being shortened to "shazza". she has stopped reacting to it recently though and now just responds.

No I don’t think it would occur to him to!

I sometimes ask my 4 year old to call me by my first name just to give my bleeding ears a rest from constant ‘mummy, mummy, mum, mum, mum, mummy, mummy....’

My siblings and I grew up calling our parents by their names (it was what they wanted) but we all found it excruciatingly embarrassing when we reached school age. As teenagers, we made up nicknames for our parents that we still use now, in our 30s & 40s, rather than using their names.

My own children call me & DH mum & dad and I like that. Anyone can call me by my name, but my kids are the only people in the world who get to call me mum and I'm proud to be their mum.

Each to their own but it's not something I would ever choose. There are 7 billion people on earth who could call me Snazzy. There are only 2 who can call me Mum and that makes it really special to me.

Re the reasons why - my mother said it was because she didn't want to lose her identity just because she'd had children, hence getting her children to call her by her name, rather than what she saw as a generic title.

Personally, I feel the opposite, as I said above...

SnazzyHatchback snap!!!

It sounds rather sappy but having spent 5 years waiting for our IVF babies, I daydreamed about being called Mummy. I am SO glad to have that opportunity and it won't ever stop being amazing to me.

Sometimes the kids do call us by our first names and collapse into giggles though which I also enjoy

He used to sometimes. I didn't mind. I don't understand why people find it cheeky? They're only repeating what they've heard you being called.