JFF Do Your Kids Call You Something Besides Mom?

my daughter when she was little around 1 would call M. mom and if I didnt answer would yell my first name in an annoyed loud voice, she'd do the same for her dad....people in grocery stores used to come up all the time and say they thought she was a big kid by the tone in her voice....now she can't get away with that at 4=) but at 1 it was super cute.

My daughter tried MOOMOO for awhile until I told her I was not a cow!

Dad is FatDaddy tho...heheh

My 13yr old son has called me "K." since he was 6. At first I thought it was a phase that he would grow out of. I'm now fully aware it isn't a phase. He's on the Autism Spectrum and everything is kinda matter of fact for him, so when I asked him years ago why he calls me "K.", he, very matter-of-factly replied "It's your name." Can't argue with that. It actually doesn't bother me. I've got two daughters also, and between them, the constant call of "Mamma, Mommy, Mom, Mom, Mama, Ma, Mom, Mommy" gets really tiring. Plus, when he talks about me to other people, he calls me "my mom", so people know I'm his mom. It's just one of his quirks. I've got bigger battles to fight than this.

Sometimes my 4 yr old daughter calls me pretty girl or pretty lady.

My husband taught my kids to call me "Big Momma" while I was pregnant. I have recently put a stop to it. ;)

It was funny when my 2 y/o said it though. "Biiiiiigggg MOMMA!"

Its not funny anymore...

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Occasionally DD will use my first name b/c the stepkids do, but if you ask her what my name is, she'll say it's "momma". She will sometimes call us momdad or dadmom like she's confused for a second. I've called her by her sister's name so I can't blame her.

My Son did that the other day!
He was trying to get my husbands attention and said "Hey babe, Babe!'
My husband didn't think it was as funny as I did hhaha
So Far I'm just mom, mommy mama etc
But my son calls my husband Daddy-o I don't know where it came from.

For a while there my son called me by my first name.

My oldest son never called me anything for a long time because he has a slight speech delay. He now now calls my "Monny" and it's music to my ears and very distinctive so I always know it's him when we're at the park.

Not here....but my nephew used to be allowed to call my BIL and SIL names from the DORA TV show. Dad was "Benny" (the bull" and Mom was "Dora" or "Boots". This childs lack of respect and discipline is a whole other story. At a family dinner at Olive Garden, during this whoe long (a few years) Dora names phase, he declared I was "Isa" now, to which I politely said, "No, I am your Auntie N____. I will only answer to that". At the time he was about 5 and crawling under the table (gross), and popping up into peoples faces, barking at them like a puppy, etc. When I refused to answer him with my new "name" or the barking, etc, my BIL got really ticked off (it was causing a scene and I didn't care). Said I was stunting his creativity and freedom of expression. LOL. Crushing his "Spirit"...LOL.

Ok...oops..sorry...got off on a tangent there...Whew! I am back now.

I am "The Mother"...he is "The Father"...and we call her "The Child"...LOL shes a teenager , so its pretty funny. When my phone rings and its her, thats what it says across the screen..the CHILD....LOL. I am always asking "Where is The Child?" "What did the child do with this or that?" It just stuck, so she started with "the mother" and "the father" thing.

That's great! My kids call me "hun" a lot - and then giggle. My sister's daughter cracks me up. She just turned 2 and my sister is a nanny, so the boys she watches call her Sarah, and my kids call her Row (a spin off of her childhood nickname of Roo from Winnie the Pooh). So my niece calls her Sarah or Row. We went to a hotel on Saturday and I walked into my sister's room and my niece had picked up the phone to call her daddy and kept saying "Mike, Mike" lol - too funny! She used to call my sister Money instead of M...I thought that was perfect!

Just "poopie-head." We're putting a stop to that!!

My husband calls me "Girls"- can't remember how it started, but it stuck. Our son will occassionally yell "Girl!" if he needs something and I'm not in the room.

My daughter calls me "honey". She hears me and my husband call each other 'honey' so much that she started to call me honey. I think its sweet. Its 50/50 between 'honey' and 'mommy'.

He'll call me C. when he's being silly.

He's still trying to wrap his head around his dad being Christopher. I'm not going to even TRY to explain grandpa's name is ALSO Chris.

Poor little "Alexander Christopher..."

I called my mother mom and my father dad until my dad was sent to Germany (USAF). We lived on the economy (rented a house from a German citizen on his farm). I learned German in school and from our neighbors. I started calling my mom, mutti and my dad, vatti, the German words for mom and dad. I called them that until they passed away.

My kids called me dad and my wife mom.

Good luck to you and yours.

I get "K." on occasion.

I'm just mom...but she started calling daddy by what I call him, "honey". She did it first time in the grocery store and yelled it at the time of her little lungs. A 2yr old yelling, "honey!!!!" So to put an end to it; everytime I call my husband for anything I have to say, "hey dada or daddy come here." I feel like Ronald Regan and Nancy when they called each other mother and father...LOL

I am Mommy until I am not hurrying fast enough to their location and then it is MOM! My nephews call me LaLa (a nickname from childhood) as do all of my friends kids. My children only call me by my first name if they want my attention and Mom just isn't working. They say my first and last name in a drill sergeant voice like I do them when I want eyes front. It works. I would never allow them to call me any name other than Mom. Language and how what you say affects others is a major phase in a toddler. Have fun with it, just make sure she is still being respectful to you and Dad.

We grew up in an extended family household and so my grandparents were "Mama" and "Papa" (the references my parents had for them) and we called my parents by their names "Lene" and "Billie" (what my grandparents called them). Nobody felt anyways slighted by the reference and it wasn't until we got much older that we noticed everyobdy didn't refer to their parents this way. Somehow we all gravitated to calling my mom "Madea" (a combination of Mother Dear); dad was still Billie until the birth of grandchildren and they morphed into Gram and Papa Billie. I hadn't thought about all that for awhile, but thanks for the posting of the question that prompted me writing/remembering and smiling in the process.

My husband and I call each other hon sometimes. So occasionally my son will call us that and sometimes he calls me S.. But it's very rare, usually it's just mommy.

LOL Same here, I call my hubs Babe and now Mikey will yell to Babe... Its hysterical. He also hears us use our first names once in while and now will call me C. or hubs Mike ! It so funny to hear him use them :-)