Do You Allow the Kids to Call You Anything Other than Mom, Mommy, Etc?

My 19 month old calls me Bop. I have no idea why. He says Dad, but he calls me and the dogs Bop...haha! He knows who I am and I'm OK with whatever he calls me.

When mine was 2 and wanted to get my attention he would say HONEY :) b/c that's what my hubby always calls me.

when my son was about 14mnths he called me S. (well he said arah) he has done it once since but i just though it was hillarious considering at the time he wasnt saying much of anything let alone names

My daughter has always called me mom. I never had an issue with it.

I recall many times as a child if I called my mom anything other than "Mother", she would squeeze my cheeks, get in my face and say "Mo-ther.... I am your Mother". I learned after many cheek squeezing days to call her Mother.... good glory, she should have just been glad to have healthy children vs her huge ego to be called Mother.

She is the same way about Grandmother.... she signs notes and told my daughter she is her Grand Mo-ther.

Needless to say, there is not a lot of love in the relationship of me and my MOTHER or my daughter and her GRANDMOTHER.

I'm mom to both girls ( 22 and 14) but I'm mommy when they are sick or in trouble!

My son is 2.5 and just discovered that we have "real names" and he'll play around with them, along with some other names. Over the last two weeks they have been doing a unit on wild animals at his preschool, so he calls my husband "rhinoceros", me "hippo" and himself "elephant". It's hilarious and he's clearly being playful.

He was totally baffled by the fact that we have names too! Once in a while he'll say "Daddy's name is Eric" or Mommy's name is K. and then he'll say "and JD means John David". It's great to see him making the connections and I love that he plays around with categories and naming.

My daughter started out calling me momma. Now, almost 20 months old..she calls me 'Ma', although I hate that word (must be something with my grams, cuz she hated to be called Ma too) I don't correct her. It's funny when we are in the store and she will just yell out Maaaaaaaa and everyone looks, laughs and comments how cute she is lol. So, typically, it's always Ma...but when shes whiney, it's mommy.

I always call my mom, 'mom'...unless I want her attention when shes not listening to me, I will either say 'Mother' or call her by her first name and she hates it :)

When my son started to talk, and learned that we have "names", he thought it was really fun to yell my name and run around in stores :-) It was just a phase though...

I don't make a huge deal but I do correct my son with "call me Mom please." He went through trying to calling me Honey for awhile and now it's my first name. He's the kind of kid who pushes his boundaries constantly and I feel that allowing that might set the stage for problems in the future.

Sometimes my daughter (3yr) calls me "Momma K." because that's what her best friend calls me.

I have pet names for my kids... my daughter is Pumpkin Butt or Sweet Pea and my son is Bud or Reiders or Stinky Butt.

Therefore, they made up a pet name for me... Mama Boochi Creamer. They've recently added Butt to the end of that.

We call each other these names around the house, maybe at Gramma & Grampa's, but rarely do they shout it out in public.

Otherwise, they call me Mama or Mommy.

When I only had the first three kids, I was the director of a child development center. I had all the children there address the staff as "Ms first name" ...as some of the last names were a mouthful! lol So...there WAS a period when the eldest 2 addressed me as 'ms mommy'...

Too funny

My 2y/o has only ever called me mama (what I prefer) or mommy (I kinda dislike). Dad is daddy or dada. She did call him babe and "itch-ah" (his name is Richard) for a few weeks (until I started just calling him daddy whenever she's around). My favorite, though, is what she calls herself: Bella! When we decided to name her Isabella, I thought we'd go with the nickname "Isa" or just the whole name. Somehow, she managed to get it out there that she much prefers "Bella" or even "Bella-Bella!" That is exactly how she introduces herself. So cute!!

My daughter began talking very early and she went through a phase of calling me by my first name. Boy, some people had absolute fits about that.
It didn't bother me. I figured that's what she heard other people calling me and made that connection. She certainly knew what my name was!

We come up with cute nicknames and terms of endearment for our little ones, I don't see any harm in them doing the same with us.
They know we are their Mommies.

Have a great day!

My niece and my daughter both live with us. Both are toddlers. My daughter started talking (she's a kid who went from very few words to full sentences and stories) recently and has adopted most of my niece's favorite phrases or words. I go by many different names to my partner and niece and my daughter enjoys repeating all of them.

I am Auntie "Ephie" (Ephie is not my actual name and I only use it on here - they use my real name), Mama Ephie, Ephie, Mama, Honey, etc. Likewise, my SO is Daddy, Daddy oyster (a name my niece chose for him and that my daughter *loves* to use), Uncle Joe (also not his real name), Joe, Honey or Hun and he also has a nickname that our friends use that stuck to him when he was in military school.

It doesn't matter to me if I am Mama Ephie or Mama or Auntie Ephie, or Ephie. I'll admit, the names help them define my role and their own...my niece right now experiments by calling me Mama...the name represents my role. But. Our kids love us and what we provide for them is not contingent on the name they call us. So yes, I allow them to call me what they want, so long as it is respectful. (my niece went through a weekend of calling *everything* stinky boobie. I didn't encourage that one.)

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;"

My son is very... precise. It's only 11:30 twice a day in our house. 11:28 is NOT 11:30, nor is 11:31. (sigh).

That said... as a toddler he got ticked off that he would call mom/mommy and have several people look up / all his friends or schoolmates. etc., also called their mom... mom.

So he calls me by my first name in public and about half the time at home. He only calls me mom in absolute PRIVATE, or if he's ticked at me. (He's not allowed to say my name in a snarky tone of voice, but he can call me by my title.)

Mine called me 'Baby' one time after my husband called me that. I told her *nicely* the only thing she's allowed to call me is Mom/Mama//Mommy.

My four never called me anything but mom or mommy. Once in a while they would say my first name...that was just to make me laugh though.

Everyone calls me by my first name. I love that i have 4 little people that call me mom. I would be sad if they didnt. I earned that title :)

My son calls me mommy or mama. However, he's just realized that Daddy has a name other than daddy. When he calls for my husband and he doesn't answer in what my son thinks is an appropriate amount of time, he yells, "Emmett!"
We're pretty sure he picked it up from my MIL. My FIL and hubby have the same name.
He's 22 months, and we think it's pretty darn cute.

I'm mom to my 3 year old and usually my son doesn't say my name (even though he says Da all the time!!) I like momma/mama more than mommy but will take whatever they call me. Sometimes my daughter will call us by our first names and we'll laugh and tell her we are momma/daddy to her! She calls my husband "Babe" all the time because that is what I call him.

I also have nicnames for my children - Ash for Ashley, RayRay (her middle name is Ray), Stinker Binker, Sillie Billie, Sweetie Pie, Sugar Bear and for my son Elias, I call him Bubba (so does Ashley), Stinker Binker, Mr Kitchen Britches, Bubba Boo and whatever else comes to mind!!

my step dtr is spec needs and calls me mama. my other 2 call me mom. my son tho on occasion and because he's a mama's boy calls me moms. i told him i like that and he does it every once in awhile and i hug him and tell him thanks. only one time he called me F. and i said it was disrespectful to me because i'm his mom, not the neighbor...and he never did it again.

My 13 yr old son (who is on the autism spectrum and has all sorts of other issues) decided to start calling me "K." when he was 6. He still does, because it's my name (there's no arguing with him or convincing him otherwise). But he calls me "my mom" when talking to other people about me. At this point, I'm so used to it and he's not going to stop, no matter what, so it's actually ok with me. And, yeah, he calls his Dad by HIS first name, too...

I call my own mom by her name sometimes. Like in stores where there are other moms around. But didn't start until i was like a teen.

I don't let my 21 month old daughter call me anything but a form of mom, but she doesn't try to either. I don't think I will either. She calls my husband Dada, but when he doesn't respond right away, she sometimes yells out "Joe". While my husband and I think it's funny, we are quick to correct her.

Mom, Mommy, Mama.... that's it, except for a stage my daughter went through where she called me by my first name and my Husband.

I am almost always "mom," rarely "mommy" (although Dad is often daddy).

Sometimes, when they're being silly, I do get called "Dude," since that is often what my husband calls me : )

my son he wouldn't say mama or ma or mama any of that he called me by my first name for a little while other than no its ma,mom,mama,mommy,babe (that is what daddy calls me)

I agree - whatever works. My kids also went through a phase of calling me by my first name. Not my preference, but I didn't make a huge deal. I would just say - what else do you call me? They'd say "mommy" - then the phase ended. My stepdaughter calls me Deenie (a version of my name). She is the only one in the world who calls me this and it's very sweet and just hers... for that situation it's perfect. I think you can let them call you whatever is best for you guys!

nope my daughter has TRIED to call me by my first name but i don't allow it, my step daughters call me what they want as long as it's respectful