to not have a clue what to call my childrens "god"mother

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We had naming ceremonies and appointed people in a "god"parenting roll but I just don't know what to call them. What do you say?

I still called her a "god"mother but we all know there'll be no religion involved whatsoever.

I'm interested to see if somebody else has come up with a good alternative though.

Guardian, sponsor, mentor,

We haven't come up with anything other than "god"parent either.

It does help to have a term that they (and you) don't have to explain when talking about their godparents to other people.

Are they potential guardians?

I had two 'special' people who weren't godparents and it always felt really secure to think I had 'guardians'

My friend is a "fairy godmother" to a couple of children, which I always thought was a nice way of putting it

I'm 'godless' mother to my friend's son if that helps

we use the french words here (it helps that I am french ) because there is no real translation in english so we have marraine for the women and parrain for the men.
it can translate in godmother/father but no god involved you can be parrain of a piece of art (which my dds are )

I had my ds christened. The priest told me that as one of the "god fathers" was not himself he would be a sponsor. He has really taken to it. Sorry if thus doesn't help!

yeah i live in sweden and we say Fadder which translates to sponsor but that just doesn't sound right. I like Fairy Godmother just not the god bit :-)

I think we should invent a word!

I think sponsor or mentor are both nice. Don't think I would use Godmother/father if it wasn't a baptism/christening.

We call ds's Godmother 'Oddmother'

Ds was never christened and didn't have a naming ceremony but ds refers to my friend as 'Aunty' as she is so special :)

My nephew and niece have "Mentors" but they refer to them as "Auntie" and "Uncle"

DS has two OhmyGod Mothers whom he addresses as Auntie. He wasn't christened but they were chosen as they were my two closest friends and I wanted him to have aa significant someone other than his parents.

guide parents ?

DP's is variously known as god-free mother, odd mother, bad influence or the back-up system!

I like the odd mother!

guidemother hmm that sounds okish

Not often i need to put in english but 1yr anniversary of My daughters naming day is coming up and her guidemother (testing :-) asked if she can have her for the day just them was so sweet i wanted to put it on facebook but got stuck :-)

The 2 ds have a 'godless mother' but that might not be quite what you're after .

Mine were Christened but we call them Goodmothers not Godmothers