What Do Your DCK's Call You?

[Unregistered]

I have been doing home child care for 2 years now and still have not had very much consistency with children using my name, it's not that big if a deal but am just curious what everyone else goes with.

Also, for children under 2 or 3 how much effort do you put into correcting them.

Most of my children over 2.5 have always called me Miss ______ without much problem

But as of now i have a dcg 4, hispanic and she calls me tia (aunt), she did it on her own, no one told he to, she also calls my husband tio (uncle)

I have a 2.5 dcb, philipino, he has been coming here since he was 13 months, and parents insisted on tita, and tito (aunt and uncle) for my my husband and i, and atte and kuya (big sister, big brother) for our daughter and son, well the little boy has a speech delay and only calls me mama, well last night at pick up dcm was telling child to give hugs/kisses and say goodnight as per routine but when she told him to hug me goodbye she said tita and then said "what does he call you anyways?", errrr, my daughter pipes up, "oh, he just calls her mama", errrr, dcm seems fine with this and then tells dcb "give mama hugs goodbye, blow kisses"

I also have 20month dcb that calls me mama, but i keep correcting him to call me Miss _______ to no avail.

I started a dcg this week, super smart, just turned 2 a month ago, she can basically hold a conversation with you, so in an effort to teach dcg my name, (because i only have one 4yr dcb that uses it) while on the changing table i ask her "whats your name", "okay, whats my name" dcg says "Mommy!" so i correct her and tell her "no, im not mommy, im mrs. _______" and instead of copying me like i expected she basically yells "no, your Mommy!" well now it is the end of the week and she still argues her point with me when i try to play the name game so.......i dunno

Call me crazy but i dont think all my dcf's would react as unfazed by this as my 2.5 dcb's mom did, (they have been with me a long time and she has actually refered to me as mama to him before)

Basically, though just curious......

[canadiancare]

They call me by my given name. No Miss or Aunt in front of it.

[AnneCordelia]

They call me by my given name. No Miss or Aunt in front of it.

Me too. My name is Emily and that's what they call me.
I have a couple young ones who sometimes say mama but I always correct them.

[allsmiles]

i cant wait till our kids start talking LOL..our only talkers are a 3 and 4 year old and they call us miss ______

all the others including our 2 year old do not talk much and will point or put their hands up or scream LOL

[allsmiles]

now that i think about it.. i do have a 14 mnth old that says mama now and again..alot of my kids only started within the last few mnths.. he has been my longest one here..

[MarinaVanessa]

I let them call me whatever they want and whatever is easiest for them. My first name is Marina but because my mom lives with us and she is also a Marina I go by my middle name Vanessa. It's easier for the kids to say that (or a variation of that like Nessa) vs my first name but I have had a DCG call me "teacher" before.

I'm not used to being called Mrs. and my last name is impossible for them to say so I preffer to let the kids and parents call me by my middle name ... much much easier that way

[kitykids3]

For me it depends on what the parents call me in front of their kids. Either they just use my first name, or some say Miss ______.

On occasion one will accidentally call me mom.

[daycarediva]

Most call me Miss._______ (name). Some just call me my first name. ONE calls me Mommy. He is almost 3, talks VERY well and unlike the OP's laid back dcm my dcm is NOT impressed. I have corrected him EVERY SINGLE TIME he has said my name for 6+ months, nope. MOMMY! He will say "Mommy look!" and I will say "Miss ____ look!" and he says, "No, you my Mommy!" huge smiles. UGH! I feel TERRIBLE every day when he hugs me and says "Yub you Mommy!" at pickup!

[Childminder]

Your Honor or Your Majesty. Just kidding, I have been Aunt Cheri since I was 6 months old and everyone calls me that even some of my grandchildren.

[CedarCreek]

Miss _______. Usually. One calls me Mom and I just now got him calling me by my name finally. Another calls me lady. Not kidding. He does not speak well.

[MNMum]

Most of them call me Mommy. I have 3 kids of my own that do it, so why wouldn't they? One of my 2 year olds(turned 2 in Dec) is a great talker. She knows everyone's names. She refuses to call me Emily. In all fairness, in toddler speak, Emily and Mommy are not that different. My 4 yo calls me "Emily" or "Miss Emily".

[SilverSabre25]

I prefer just my first name.

One boy went home for a two week vacation last summer and came back calling me "Miss [first name]". I tried correcting him to no avail. gave up.

New family started in November and called me just my first name for the longest time...now the older boy has started gradually calling me Miss, too. Occasionally Mommy/mama.

My DD called me by my first name for the longest time because of my trying to get dcks to. That was funny...mostly how everyone else freaked about it and I was like "meh, whatever."

I find that toddlers/babies start off calling me mama, and think it has to do with their schema of "lady who takes good care of me equals mama". They usually figure it out eventually, or by the time they get close to two i start correcting them gently.

[pandamom]

I have them call me by my first name. Sometimes they call me Miss (first name).

[Oneluckymom]

I have all under 3 and 2 of my own. So far they all call mommy. I'm trying tomcorrect it. Don't get me wrong 2 of them know my name. In front of their parents they will call me miss_____.

[coolconfidentme]

MIMI!
My g'kids call me that & the others naturally do too.