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.

I said snap not sap, SnazzyHatchback totally agree with you!!

Not very often no but dd2 a few months ago started calling me and dh child 1 and 2 I've absolutely no idea how it started but we do respond.

Since my DH and all those around call me by name yes my little ones initially called me my name as well. With time it slowly changed.

No, my children call us Mummy and Daddy. I’d find names really odd. I’m 39 and I call my mum ‘mum’. That’s what she is - my mum.

Our DS sometimes calls his dad by his actual name. The intonation is exactly the same as I when I call to his dad up the stairs / in another room

My 3 year old does. Nearly always has. I don't mind, it's my name. 2 year old calls me mum.

My daughter soon learned that calling out 'Mummy' in a room full of children and mums so she started calling me Stoney Mum. Which got dropped to Stone at times. Probably around three or four. Of course, her little brother followed her.

Now she is an adult, I'm Stoney Mum to her partner most of the time, Stone most of the time to her. And Stoney Animal (with relevance to an aspect of how I cared for the children). I like it.

My friend started calling his parents by first name at about 13. I think it's because his house was the place we all hang out every weekend, so he got so used to them being called X and Y rather than mum and dad. I still find it odd when I see them together all these years later

I would encourage my kids to call me by my name if we were out somewhere busy.
Screaming “mum” if they lose sight of me gets lost in the crowd but scream “Heidi” and I know exactly what’s going on.

They always found it hysterically funny!
They do it now if we happen to be anywhere busy - both in their twenties....

Yes, mostly, and he calls all four grandparents by abbreviations of their first names too. To their horror.

Yes thinking about it my dd7 calls my parents by their name rather than grandpa or gran or whatever as that’s what we call them and they refer to themselves as grandpa-His name or grandma-Her name, Dh’s parents are nana and dodo though. I’m glad I’m mummy to her though.

Mine does. We're a same-sex couple and I think that will be why, though we didn't encourage it.

One of mine does, just because everyone else does I think. She knows I am mum/her mum though.
It really doesn’t bother me either way to be honest!

Mine do/have at one time or another. When ever my 6yo is angry or wants to gets DHs attention she calls his name rather than Daddy. I asked her once why she did it and she said he pretends he can’t hear her when she says daddy 😂

I'd rather be called by my first name when they are young than be called "mummy/daddy" when they are in their 40s I cringe everytime a grown woman/man is talking to her "daddy"

My DCs mostly use Mum or Mummy but will sometimes use my name too. It's fine and I can't get particularly worked up about it. It is my name after all, and occasionally gives a welcome relief from the mummymummymummymummy-ing I get constantly.
DH hates them using his name but doesn't consistently pull them up on it so they use a mix of Dad, Daddy, and his name too. I do pull them up as I think everyone has the right to be called by their preferred name, but his lack of consistency means DCs don't take it seriously.

No. Our son is 5 and calls us mummy and daddy. When he gets older it will be mum and dad.
He started saying mum and dad, then learnt mummy and daddy.
Not sure why he would call us anything but?

@happymummy12345

No. Our son is 5 and calls us mummy and daddy. When he gets older it will be mum and dad. He started saying mum and dad, then learnt mummy and daddy. Not sure why he would call us anything but?

It’s just personal preference.

DC1 started calling me by my name when he had just turned three. He asked me what my name was and was fascinated by it. I thought he'd grow out of it but it's stuck, DC2 has started calling me by my name as well. I don't mind tbh, it's my name after all. What I do mind is the annoying judgmental comments I get from others, including that my DC must have attachment issues (that was my sister).

Not usually.

My DH comes from a first name parents family. His experiences with this approach made him very clear he wanted to be dad!

No I think it's rude. Obviously as PP has said her son is autistic makes it slightly different for some.

I know an autistic person who just doesn’t ‘get’ why his mother is ‘mum‘ to him and his brother ‘first name‘ to their dad and ‘grandma‘ to the grandchildren
When everyone else they know calls her by her firstname
He just uses her actual name. No
One seems to mind