How many of you are called by your own name by your children?

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I loathe the word "Mummy", can just about get my head around "Mammy" (I'm Irish, so grew up with that), but think I will simply stick with my own name. OH thinks that's odd, though both of us call our fathers by their given names and think nothing of it.
I'm curious as to how many of you are called by your own name, or if anyone's older kids have switched from "Ma" to "Eileen". This is my first baby and the first grandchild for either set of grandparents, and I imagine that all four grandparents would like to be called by their own names.

No. I called my Dad by his name once and he just said, "Everyone on the planet can call me XXX, only 5 of you can call me Dad. So, please keep doing so". That really resonated with me.

That said, DH called his Mum by her first name when I first met him. It was after about 5 years he suddenly reverted to calling her, 'Mum'.

Ours switch between mummy/daddy and our first names, they're 5 and 2. I quite like both and I do like them to know we are people in our own right - mummy/daddy can sometimes feel like a job title.

I always call my own mother 'mum', but usually call my dad by his name. Not sure why, really!

No. I think like LikeABadSeth's Dad - there are only 3 people in the whole world that can call me Mum - it's a very special thing. Why would I want to encourage them to be like everyone else in the world who an use my name?

Also think it will be confusing at Nursery etc when they talk with the children about 'Mum/Mam' and it's not a word they use.

My three have been calling me by my name since they were early teens, interspersed with mum or mama.
They've invented some silly nicknames too based on my name and the fact that I'll feed loads of them and their friends at the drop of a hat.

My own mother hated 'mum' so I called her by her name since I was about 12.
She's just recently signed her emails 'mum' which was really weird and when I asked her about it she said she had just started feeling like a mum and is trying to behave like one.

She's 83

I too come from the same camp.
There are 3 people who can call me Mum, anybody can use my first name.

I can see why some people don't like the word though.
Mine tend to have nn for all members of the family, its each to their own.

I'm northern and am used to mam/mammy but have been living down south for a while and have a SD who obviously has a mummy. It is a bit sickly sweet, and it makes me cringe a bit when OH makes her use mummy/daddy instead of mum/dad.

I have cousins who have always called their mam by her first name, so it's not that strange a concept. Although if I ever used my mam's name her default response was "I spent 17 hours pushing you out, the least I deserve is my proper title!". Again makes me cringe a little.

No kids yet but when I do I imagine I'll be mummy. It's just easier for them isn't it, although I may come into some confusion as SD obviously calls me by my name. So there'll probably be a bit of crossover I imagine.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it though, if you and your family are happy with it.

I'm Irish too, OP, and my two year old can't pronounce my tricky Irish name! He just gives an are-you-stupid look to anyone using my name and insists "no, it's MUMMY!" He has no trouble with his dad's nice simple English name and will use that or "Honey!" if he can't get his attention otherwise with "dadd-dyyyyy"

I called my mother "Mammy" as a child and "Mum" now. I started calling my dad by his first name when I was 15, after I asked him what age he was when he started using his father's first name. (15, for the avoidance of doubt.)

My dad likes it and is secretly very pleased. My mum would hate me to use her first name. Other members of my family hate to hear me use my dad's first name and find it weird and wrong, although I have noticed my brother start to pick it up lately, despite being one of the most vocal opponents of it when we were kids!

I never forbade the use of my name, but went from mama in Mexico to Ma in Dublin and am now called Granny by my dd and Ganny by my dgd.

Such is life, we get many names

4yo ds has called me by my first name a few times more out of experimentation because he realised his cousins were addressing me differently to him. I hated it. I struggled for 3 years to become a mummy/ mum - it's a title of honour and privilege to me and I can't get enough of hearing it. If it's a job title then it's the most important one on the planet, so I'm happy with that. I don't really understand the first name thing tbh sorry op! Just goes to show how different we all are

The other thing is the confusion it could cause. I would assume you were step parent or other relation if your child was calling you by your first name not mom/mommy/mammy - whatever variation you like.

DH was extremely upset when DS (just turned 3yrs) had a little phase of calling him his first name instead of Daddy. DS seemed proud to have picked up what other people call daddy - daddy on the other hand was gutted and said it made him feel like some random bloke to DS rather than his daddy.

I agree with littlelion if mommy/daddy are a job title, then they're the most important ones on the planet.

I hate mummy. But I use mum or mummeh.

I read something Lauren Lavern blogged about the negative associations of the word mum (naff, parochial ... as soon as you give birth you're a sentimental milk cow, stupid, meek etc ... The whole misogynistic rhetoric thar was for women is heaped doubly on women with children) and it made me want to "reclaim" mum! To say yes I'm a left wing, educated, sweary, stylish, professional ... mum ... and I'm not ashamed and I won't raise my dd to be ashamed of the word.
Kind of like reclaiming "like a girl" but "like a mum".

As pp said if I hear a child calling the woman taking care of them Helen or whatever I assume that they're a child minder or step parent. I'd be really upset to be anything except Mummy! A little girl in my friends dd class has a mummy who will not be called Mummy and the little girl has taken to calling her teacher Mummy instead. I think that's a little bit sad.

I love being called mummy, I waited for a long time to hear myself called mummy and it's such a special thing to me. I worked with a lady who used her parents first names and I found it a bit odd, it was very detached when she was chatting about visiting 'ronald' in hospital later that day rather than dad. Each to their own though.

I asked my mum and dad what their names were when I was about three and I always called them their first names ever since then.

I also call my mum darling. This started as a joke but now I call her darling more than her actual name.

We are weird.

My son (4) calls me and my husband by our first names but also calls us mummy and daddy or mum and dad. I don't discourage it, I called my own parents by their first names.

I'm Irish too, OP, but live in England, and both 'mammy' (too John B Keane) and 'mummy' (too twee) make me wince (though I called my own mother 'mammy' until I was in my teens). Fortunately my three year old alternates between 'mama', which he picked up from somewhere, and my first name, with no guidance from me. (Occasional 'Mam' in his best Norman Price accent, when he's deliberately being cheeky...)

After a long discussion between his four grandparents on the merits of granny/nana/grandpa/grandad etc, he has only ever called them by their first names, too, which I think they're all four taken aback but amused by.

I don't think its that wildly unusual for children to call their parents something other than a mum/mummy/mother variant, is it? I can think of quite a few friends/acquaintances.

I'm mummy or mum (DS has just turned 4)
He knows our real names in case of emergency etc.

Every now & again I call my mum by her name but only as a joke/catch her attention - they'll always be mum & dad.

My friend and her husband have nicknames for each other which their toddler now also uses when speaking to them. No-one else.uses.those names.for them, so it's like a weird little bonding thing between the three of them, and to be honest it's really cute. I too detest the word 'mummy', so by the time my baby is old enough to speak I'll have to have thought up an alternative. DP isn't too keen on 'daddy' either; he's going to be papa.

My two call me Mumma. (they're 7) They find it funny.

dd2 calls me Mummy at home, but by my first name when we're in company where other people do
I hate it, but try not to let her know, as that will only make her do it more

My kids call me mum. Sometimes my oldest will call me mummy. He's nearly 16 and thinks he's funny :D
I realise it sounds stupid but I'd hate them to call me by my first name. I'd feel rejected by it. Like I wasn't good enough.
I think that's because my dad called his parents by their first names due to his horrible childhood he felt they never earned the right to be mum and dad .
Perhaps without that, I would feel differently.

My dad was also my scout leader, I once got told I should call him by his first name at scouts. I refused, I couldn't do it! My dad also refused to be called his first name by me, and had words with the helper who suggested it.
I feel its a mark of respect, and it's a privilege to be called mum/mummy or dad/daddy.
I can't wait till DD starts saying mummy. It feels odd when I or DH use that, but I don't think it will when DD says it,

I too think it's a privilege to be called Mum. I'm lexy to anybody but only Mum to 3 special people

I find most children in my class would refer to their mom. I'm in Ireland and mammy is for younger children and have never heard mummy used.
My mother Is Mamo to my little girl. (gaelic)

I don't even think my son knows my name, ha. I told him my name yesterday but he just said "No, it's Mummy." Made me laugh. Personally I think I would be irritated if he didn't call me Mummy; I went through the pain to be "Mummy".

I had this weird thing when I was a kid. I thought kid's names were different to adult's names. Like I knew my mum's name but asked her what her name used to be when she was a kid. I don't know where that came from to be honest!