Probably the silliest question ever asked on here!

[md0u0131]

But those of you who mind other children as well as your own what do you call yourself?

I keep accidenatlly calling myself "Mummy" the whole time as its what I'm used to with my own child but then it feels wrong calling msyelf "Claire" to my own child too.

aaaaaagh - the things they don't tell you in training

[pinkbutterfly]

My own call me MUM for others Anna. I don't often say my own name btw ...

[WibbleWobble]

i am mandy to all my mindees,,,,but that can sound like "mom", "maddy" and just "dee"

my children are all grown up so i dont have the mummy/mandy problem.

The only problem i have is not calling OH Uncle Phil.....even when the mindees are not around. Think it got bad when i called him uncle phil whilst we were in bed.....

ooh...that does look bad doesnt it?

mandy xx

[OrlandoBelle]

i am mandy to all my mindees,,,,but that can sound like "mom", "maddy" and just "dee"

my children are all grown up so i dont have the mummy/mandy problem.

The only problem i have is not calling OH Uncle Phil.....even when the mindees are not around. Think it got bad when i called him uncle phil whilst we were in bed.....
ooh...that does look bad doesnt it?

mandy xx

I think my OH would actually like it if I did that! Hahaha

[caz3007]

iThe only problem i have is not calling OH Uncle Phil.....even when the mindees are not around. Think it got bad when i called him uncle phil whilst we were in bed.....

ooh...that does look bad doesnt it?

mandy xx

Heheheh you made me laugh, and I needed that. I had visions of a crucial point and you saying 'ooohhh Uncle Phil'

[Minstrel]

But those of you who mind other children as well as your own what do you call yourself?

I keep accidenatlly calling myself "Mummy" the whole time as its what I'm used to with my own child but then it feels wrong calling msyelf "Claire" to my own child too.

aaaaaagh - the things they don't tell you in training

I don't talk about myself in the third person!

I just say me and they call me wahtever comes first mummy or my name.

[Rubybubbles]

my ds didn't call me mummy until he was 2 1/2 yet would call me Rubybubs all the time!

I always say my name to the children, am I weird?

[LOOPYLISA]

i am mandy to all my mindees,,,,but that can sound like "mom", "maddy" and just "dee"

my children are all grown up so i dont have the mummy/mandy problem.

The only problem i have is not calling OH Uncle Phil.....even when the mindees are not around. Think it got bad when i called him uncle phil whilst we were in bed.....

ooh...that does look bad doesnt it?

mandy xx

[marnieb]

all my littilies find it hard, as my name is so similar to mummy at the best of times!!!

rigth now dd (2yrs) calls me 'marnie'' and finds it hilarious...... I do correct her, telling her mindees can call me that, but I'm her mummy. I find it a bit sad and upsetting, tbh!

[Vickster]

I rarely refer to myself in the 3rd person just because I don't want to confuse my 22 month old daughter. My two older mindees call me Vicky and my Little mindee is only saying a few words. My DD does call me Vicky from time to time and finds it hilarious....

[karen m]

my children are all adults now but my grandson finds it so funny to call me karen like the other mindees if he is in a particulary funny mood away from minding he calls me karen then laughs but mainly remembers i am his nan

[Hayley102]

I had that difficulty when my own children were pre-school but I gently corrected/reminded them if they called me Hayley and the young mindees if they called me Mummy. They soon get used to it!

[Flisspaps]

Mummy to DD and my first name to mindees.

However, DD calls me Daddy

[PixiePetal]

they call me by my name

get the occasional 'mummy' by mistake but I just say my name and they soon pick it up.

my children were never confused and never said my name but told the children to 'give it to my mummy' etc

mind you DS called his dad John for a good while and a mindee calls his dad by his Christian name

I had a friend who, when we were both nannies, had a child who could not say her name (sharon) and called her Butter goodness knows why! not even similar - they agreed to Nanny until her speech progressed as butter was just plain daft

[hello kitty]

I had a mindee who used to called me Quaver!!! My name is nothing like that!! Don't know where it came from either.

[alwaysright]

my own daughter always called me mum/mummy but funnily called her dad john, i think she just copied what the mindees called him but didnt do it with me! it used to raise some questions as people would say "i thought john was her dad!!" ermmm he is!! she did it for years and it then sounded odd when she started to call him dad!

[WibbleWobble]

my mum and dad were at uni when i was born (they had a shotgun wedding!) and i called my dad "harry". so i lived with mummy and harry!

ok..not much of a problem but....this was the 1960s when being unmarried and having a child was just not on!

i started calling him daddy when my brother was born 4 years later

mandy xxx

[Gizmo]

one of my mindees calls me mum, and calls her mum Joy

[Pauline]

my children are all adults now but my grandson finds it so funny to call me karen like the other mindees if he is in a particulary funny mood away from minding he calls me karen then laughs but mainly remembers i am his nan

Same here, our grandson often finds it funny to call us Graham and Pauline but he knows it is not correct because he laughs! sometimes the other younger children call us Granny and Grandad because they hear what he is calling us, it must be confusing for all of them.

We don't make a big thing of correcting them, if one of them says "Granny can you do this" I just say "Pauline" and then do it.

[Mollymop]

I have accidentally said "mummy" a few times but correct it straight away. I have had mindees call me "mummy" but i correct them straight away.
I am only Mummy to my own children and the others I mind know I am my children's mummy. I am my own name to all the mindees x