What do your kids call you?

[lupa]

Before my ds was born I was adamant that I wanted to be called by my first name - not 'Mummy' (or anything similar) - as I grew up calling my parents by their first names. I thought it'd feel weird being called the same thing as loads of other people, and I just don't much like the word. My dp wasn't too keen though, and the in-laws were a bit when we told them.

Anyway, it's all gone out the window since ds was born. I keep calling myself 'Mummy', I think because that's what the nurses and midwives, and everyone else, called me in hospital.

How do you feel about being a 'Mummy'? And what are the alternatives? Ds is only five weeks old so still time to change!

After hearing it from my neice my ds1 has taken to calling me 'Big Butt', (Hannah Montanna has a lot to answer for!!!) which is mortifying when you are out and about. Usually it's Mummy or Mama though!!!

DS1 started off with Mama, which has now turned into mummy. However since he started pre-school he has started to say "mum" which I am absolutely not ready for. Am trying to train him to call me "my most wonderful and lovely mummy" but he is having none of it.

DS calls me Mummy, or occasionally Sweetie which he gets from DH and sounds very funny

Mummy is not a job description, it's something DS only says to me. He calls his nanny by her first name obviously, and other adults, but no one else gets to be Mummy.

Mum, or Mr Daniel (not our surname), or swimming pool face. I call her pumpkin head.

I hate Mummy, it's too twee for me and I particularly hate when other parents introduce themselves as Mummy.

MummyCanIHaveSomethingToEat?

Am Irish, so mammy, more often mam, or ma.

When we lived in North Lincs it was 'Mummaay'. Now it is Mummy, but he tells his friends at school he calls me Mum! DH is similarly Daddy in private and Dad elsewhere. (He tends to forget to shorten in fact, but asks very seriously if we mind.)

I was mama, then mummy, but quite suddenly it became mum, and he's only 2yo. Seems a bit soon. Sometimes I'm also mummy + shortened version of my name which is v. cute. DH is only ever Papa.

Misguided.

was mummy until a few months ago. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, became Moomalog, Moo moo for short, and dh is doo doo. Moo moo and doo doo. hmmm

DD1 aged 6 says Muuur for some reason and it drives me nuts. aaargh! Why Muur. I do say I can be Mam, Mum, mummy or even my real name but not Muur.
Sometimes she calls me Mrs realname and collapses in a fit of giggles!

The younger two say Mummy and the baby says mama, but then she calls everyone mama.

And I call my parents Mam and Dad but my Dad calls his mother by her first name which I find very strange.

We're Mum and Dad, but are semi-encouraging use of our real names with DS aged 2. Can't quite see why that makes me a loon. Lots of other things might make me that, but not my decision about what my child calls me, and it certainly doesn't mean he's not polite.

Not fond of mummy/daddy but fortunately it's only other people that use them.

Ds1 (3) calls us mum and dad. Ds2 has just started saying mama and dada appropriately which is very sweet.

From around 12 I've called my parents by their first name in public as they suddenly stopped taking notice of anyone saying mum and dad (self-protecting effect of having 5 children?) but I still call them that when I'm talking to other people, or it just gets confusing. Not sure how I'll feel if/when ds's start trying to use our forenames. Interestingly, my parents LOVE being Grandma and Grandad.

They call me Maman or Mummy

Ds2 (20mo) mummy or mammy (in screaching, agitated tones).
Ds1 (3.5) mummy, mum, or sometimes my first name. He uses first name a lot when dh is around - guess he hears dh calling me that and copies it.

DS2 calls me honeybee I really like it. The rest of them call me Maaaaaammy.

DD1 (5) calls me mummy

DD2 (3) calls me mummy or mum

DD3 (15 months) calls me Mamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamama till I do what she wants

DH was trying to train them to call me mummity, but he stopped that after I slapped him senseless told him how much I disliked it. The DDs do the same for him as for me (Daddy, Dad or Dadadadadadadadada).

They sometimes refer to us as mother and father, because that's what we say when we're cross (as in 'Do as your mother tells you NOW!') but with DD2 that comes out as muvver and favver - hate that! We'll beat it out of her.....

ds1 calls me 'lad'

ds2 calls me 'nasty pasty'

Mum - always 'Mum'. They have each tried at various times to use my given name, but I've made it clear I don't like them using it. I do feel quite strongly about it for my kids.

When I hear children calling their parents by their first names it seems a quite cold to me (sorry 'gerbil). To my mind the name 'Mum', 'Mummy' or any derivative from it denotes a special bond or association. Anyone can call me by my first name, but there are only 4 people in the world that are allowed to call me 'Mum' - that makes it special enough for me to want to keep it.

My BIL & SIL are known by their first names to their 3 DC (10, 8 & 5) . It's OK, they're happy with it, but it seems to me they've lost something special & I do feel a little sad on their behalf.

The DCs are American and so I started as Mommy. Even now, the oldest who is in college still calls me this, and the rest have followed the 'leader' on this score. I've never been Mom, which is considered outrageously unusual in the US, but I know quite a few families now and while growing up where Mummy remains the norm even for adult children.

Mama to start with, now mostly Mum. Though he does sometimes use the terms we use for him/each other. So he will say Sweetheart and Honey and Babe (that one got a laugh).

He went through a phase of calling DH by his first name, nobody minded but he got bored and went back to Daddy/Dad.

My DS almost two calls me mummy. Used to call me Mama which I found adorable. Last few days he's been hugging me and saying 'My mum" which just melts my heart

Mummy or Mama to my face, Maman when she is referring to me in French / talking to DP.

DP is Papa, always, whatever language she is speaking.

Ds1 calls me Umme, the Arabic for mum, which I find adorable.
Ds2 calls me mummy, or stupid, depending on mood. He is 6, hfa/adhd.
Ds3 is non verbal, but now knows who mummy is, which is the most special to me, he is autistic.
Ds4 calls me muuummmyyy! He is 3, and impatient, mildly autistic.
Ds1 used to call me by my name, this changed when he was 13ish, when he became aware that people found it odd. He still didn't want to call me mum/mummy etc. and prefers umme. He has aspergers.
I don't really think that calling me mum etc. will build the bond, it is more to do with the relationship I have with my children. I called my mother mum, and we have, and always have had, an awful relationship.