What do your children call you?

[Loonaandalf]

Irish parents, if your children were born and raised in Britain, what do they call you?

I am expecting my first and wondering what we should encourage them to call us.

DH and I always said ma, mam, da, dad.
I like mama/ papa also but would we come across a bit pretentious since we’re not ehm Italian 🤣

I really want to avoid mum, mummy if possible. Would even prefer children to call me by my own name but DH thinks it’s silly. My name is my name though so…

You must not be in a working class area of Dublin , honestly never ever heard of anyone saying mum and I have Irish friends over here and they don’t say mum either.

I do this sometimes too. Will use ‘my mother’ but I used to say ‘me ma’ when I lived there. Nobody would know what I was trying g to say over here though if I said that 🤣

Not everyone is a christian though so saying first name would apply to the general population and not just christians.

Mam for me. But I'm much older now. And I'm not a mother either, but it's what all my siblings called our mother. Dad for our father. No issues there really and I I often wonder why so many terms for mother but so few for fathers?

My mother and father's generation in the older part of Dublin called their parents mother and dad, but when referring to them they were "the old lady" and "the old man" They weren't that old, it was just differentiating them from the young ones. Common enough back in the day.

It went from mama to mummy to mum to bruh.
Seriously though it's usually mum (occasionally mama if they're being cute and want something). 8 and 11 yo boys.

I have shocking news I am right beside and was educated and raised in what would be considered one of the most notorious areas of Dublin.

Where are you from because it's my experience it's one of the most common for over 40+ years.

We know a lot of kids who have a papa, never thought of it as pretentious. Very common on the continent (and Ireland I assume!!).

We went with Mummy and Papa but my kids call me Mumma so that's what it has reverted to atm. So you might find whatever you go for they make their own version anyway.

Still waiting for the 'bruh' stage to hit 😂😅

Seriously OP you've been told by multiple Irish posters that Mum is very common in Ireland, it's time to accept.

Mammy when they were younger, Mam now.
I refuse to answer to ma, mum, or mom.
Eldest occasionally calls me á mhamaí when he's practising his Irish.

Yes, and have lived in the north-west, west and east of the country over the years.

Most Irish people don't use Mummy unless they live in Northern Ireland where it is the norm or they are aristocracy.

".....I cringe when I hear adults calling their mothers mammy."

Even worse @honeyrider is a husband calling his wife mammy. 🤮

Yeah my friend from Derry does it (he certainly isn’t posh haha)
anywhere else I don’t like ‘mummy/daddy’ at all. Just reminds me of preppy weird people.
The Welsh say ‘Mam’ which is cool.

Mom mommy or mama. Never mammy, I really don’t like that word.

I don't think it's very common, not everywhere here anyway?
Mummy isn't used at all where I am. Mum a bit more by adults, but Mam is definitely the default. Maybe they're more common in NI or parts of Dublin?

Definitely the norm in NI, as well as parts of Dublin and the surrounds and I reckon we have just about the entire island covered on this thread. So yeah I'd say it is very common for Irish people to use mummy or mum. Others are common too of course, particularly mammy and mam, but I don't understand the bewilderment.

Mum..( they are adults now) used to be Mummy.
Unless they are trying to get my attention and I'm not listening .. then it's Motherrrrrr!!!!
Their kids call them Mum.. except the oldest ( he's 19 and Aspergers ) at Uni and working and still says Mummy.
It's so cute bless him.
I'm called Granny . ( Some people don't like Granny.. but l always say if it was good enough for the Queen ...then it's good enough for me).

I want to be called granny, I detest nana and nan - makes me think the person has lost their faculties.

Irish and my kids call me Mom

Literally 80% I've come across use it. In Dublin work in education that's the default. There's a million plus in Dublin so statistics would skew it towards the most common.

The OP appears to have met 3 Irish people and decided that's the default 🤣

I want mammò.

I’m not Irish but my grandparents were. I’m called mom. But that’s because I grew up in the West Midlands where all mothers are mom pretty much. My kids didn’t grow up there but call me mom.

Mammó always reminds me of the song ‘Cailleach an airgid’ about the young man marrying the rich old woman who’s old enough to be be his ‘mammó’ (and which, if you don’t know it, features the line ‘Is sí do mhammó í, ‘sí do mhammó í’ about a hundred times…)

To the point where I have now given myself an ineradicable earworm…

Here are Dónal Lunny and a very young set of Hothouse Flowers giving it some traction.

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Ah it just brings such happy memories of my wonderful bright, bouncy, chilled mammò. She was such a beautiful person and I want to honour her. Love the earworm