'mummmm !' what do you call your dp/dh [light hearted]

[mrsfuzzy]

it's like listening to a six year old when my neighbour is in the garden, he's in his 30's but goes in the garden is out there for a couple of minutes then he calls her several times, loudly, i don't know her real name, so i guess she is mum -. she calls him by his name but responds in a tired mums voice sort that you would use when a dc whinges and pesters.
sorry, if i sound a bit bitchy but it makes me smile, so what do you call your dp /dh/ dw ?

[lanbro]

We very very very rarely call each other by our first names, sounds a bit odd when we do

Although always hating pet names I just can't stop myself...babe, darling, dear, my love, grumpy bum, nobber, chicken legs

He calls me babs, babbles, sexy, wench, my lass, oi wife

The dc, 4 and nearly 3, know our names but know to call us mummy and daddy!

[Mysterycat23]

Jigglypuff Bob is a popular one it seems! DH is going to love this!

[Justwanttoweeinpeace]

I call him daddy in (young) DS's presence. I use his name the rest of the time.

[Mysterycat23]

BeyondLoves how funny, we are going through a phase of calling each other Bob! (Also neither of us called Bob). DH riffs on it to create new ones. At the moment it's "Boberousbob". Based on past lifespan of the nicknames he has created I'm sure he will tire of it and invent some new ones soon..

[user1471461166]

Wifey Wenchypants Bitchface

The faces pulled by people who don't know us when he trots that one out I know it's a term of endearment though, so all is well

Shortened to Wifey when the kiddos are in earshot!!

[Rowgtfc72]

He's boy, I'm sexy bum.
Dd has known we have real names for a while. She doesnt use them. Shes ninja.

[Hushabyelullaby]

DH calls me 'honey', he never uses my name just directs conversation at me. I call him his name or 'babe'

[Olddear]

First names usually. DH calls me 'Mrs xxx (his surname) as a joke even although I never changed my name when I got married over 20 years ago.

[MaQueen]

Generally call DH by an abbreviation of his first name, though he always uses the full version of his name.

We also call each other baby, babe, darling.

Our DDs are very rarely called by their actual names. Instead, they answer to a wide variety of pet names...Flumpy, YumBum, Twinkle, Snufkin, Bobbins. They always seem to know which one of them I mean.

Don't know how they know, actually

[paxillin]

You'd love my dc's school, DiddysMammy. It's big, friendships come and go, you tend to be "Sam's mum' or "Ginny's dad" for the first three years of parent-friendship.

[FeedMeAndTellMeImPretty]

Arf

[FeedMeAndTellMeImPretty]

I am the only person who calls DP by his full name, with the possible exception of his grandparents! Everyone else shortens it to the obvious nickname but when we first met he told me to use his full name and he uses mine, despite me introducing myself with a shortened version that he hates

We call each other babe (used to hate that until I met him and got annoyed when I realised he still used it with his ex and with women at work ) and in a kitsch way, bubba, bubs, boo etc. I use darling sometimes with him and the DCs.

He also calls me sugar tits, Tits McGee and other boob based names.

[DiddysMammy]

Like I said each to their own

[OorWullie1936]

I call him 'fuck face' and he calls me 'fanny features' not in front of the kids though!

[Youowemeatenner]

*or less

[Mynestisfullofempty]

I never dreamed of referring to my friends parents by their first names. When I was little they were whoevers mummy or daddy and then they were mr and Mrs unless I was told otherwise.

Yes, exactly the same here, but my parents never went to the lengths of calling each other mummy and daddy, let alone insisted other people did. They used first names with friends and family. I never called my parents by their first names. It was the same when we had our daughter. She always called us mummy and daddy despite hearing other people use our names and us calling each other by our names. I think you are going to really bizarre lengths completely unnecessarily. Making people call you mummy and daddy when they're not your children is just confusing for your child. You're HER mummy and daddy, not everyone else's too.

[Youowemeatenner]

I'm a teacher, in our school the children call us by our first names. Many people find this hugely disrespectful (DP included). I don't. I firmly believe that a name doesn't equal respect. I certainly don't respect someone called Joe any more than I respect Mr. Bloggs.

[ginghamstarfish]

I remember once a friend of mine had a boy who was about 4, and he asked about why his grandma (Jean) always called her (his mum) Lucy. She explained about Jean being her mum, just as she was his mum, etc. Later that day the phone rang and he answered it - shouted 'Lucy, it's your mother".

[AtiaoftheJulii]

It's inevitable that she will know my first name but kids are so quick to repeat that I don't want her to hear it and start using it before she old enough to understand its disrespectful.

But you do realise that pretty much everyone else's children do still call them mummy and daddy (or whatever) even though they hear Margaret and Dennis every day as well?

[MrsMargeSimpson]

If I'm talking to him in front of the children, or about him to them, he's Daddy. e.g. "Ask you daddy x" "daddy said y" etc etc.

Between ourselves we use all manner of vile pet names: babe, honey, sweet, sweetie etc. Or we go with 'Oi Dickhead' and so on.

I feel odd using his name

[DiddysMammy]

My goodness no.. It's inevitable that she will know my first name but kids are so quick to repeat that I don't want her to hear it and start using it before she old enough to understand its disrespectful. It's how I was brought up I'm not from a posh upper class background or anything where I I refer to my parents as mama and father. But I was brought up to respect my elders..

As for ignoring people well I don't fully ignore to the point that they are repeating themselves over and over but I don't always answer first time especially when family do it as they know by now my feelings on the issue.

I never dreamed of referring to my friends parents by their first names. When I was little they were whoevers mummy or daddy and then they were mr and Mrs unless I was told otherwise. It will be the same for my daughter.. I'm a nanny so I always refer to my charges parents as mummy or daddy especially when I am talking to my daughter and their friends parents are whoevers mummy or daddy or mr and mrs. Admittedly that gets tricky when they aren't married.

As for referring to my friends as mummy well again if I am talking to my daughter about them or they are talking their children about me we are whoevers mummy.

Make me sound odd but each to their own.

[Goingtobeawesome]

I call him babe and he calls me the same. We also have another pet name for each other. Lately I've been calling him his name when I want to make a point or are telling him off.

[Katedotness1963]

I call him by his given name unless talking to the kids, then I say dad, your dad or stinking dada (family joke). The kids call us mum and dad. When they were younger we told them if the got separated from us to shout out our names and not mum or dad as there were lots of mum and dads around but they'd be few with our actual names.

[joanne90]

Haha no just one and plans for no more!