Calling parents by their Christian names

In our family it was always Mum and Dad. They are special names for parents. When our children were born, my mother didn’t want to be grandma so they called her Joan but when they went to school they didn’t have a grandma like the other children so they changed to Nan. We are a Christian country we have Christian names.

I would find it odd to hear a child refer to their parents using their Christian names too.

Totally weird and 'woke'

I think it is absolutely none of my business what other people in other families call each other - as long as it is loving.

As for my own daughters - I don’t care what you call me as long as you call me.

My mother didn’t want to be called ‘Mum’, and she didn’t want to be ‘Granny/Grandma/Nanny’ either, so she was known universally as ‘Moomin’ by all the family. It was a name that had gradually evolved over the years and then stuck once we discovered the ‘Moomin Family’. 😁

Our neighbours were called by their first names by their children. As a nurse, I’ve encountered patients whose children called them by their first names. I love that we can all be individuals in life. 😂

Our kids call us by our Christian names, the dog knows us as mummy and daddy...

Well, if the thread police are going to be pernickety and say you can't use the phrase "Christian Name" even if you were christened or baptised in the Christian faith, then I'll have my twopenn'orth and say that you can't use 'forename' or 'first name' either, since in some cultures the surname/family name comes first and the given name second!

When teaching English it is suggested to say ‘given name’ because certain languages have the person’s family name as a first name. That being said I still use Christian name in my head.

No im going to say Christian names oldbat nothing wrong with it if you are offended by that that’s not my problem

ReadyMeals 😁
That made me smile!
Ha ha!

My children always called me by my first name just as I did with my own parents. At some point as she was approaching mid-life my daughter started calling me Mum. Which is even weirder now since I am transgender and now live as a man. We accept each other's quirks :D

My husband's cousin calls (and called) her late parents Maggie and Ralphie. I find it unusual but it doesn't bother me.

I really don’t care, whatever everyone wants to do

I have never liked my name, Gillian. I prefer to be called Gill or Gilly. However, since secondary school my 3 children sometimes call me Gillian. It makes me laugh, if it’s done in a lighthearted way then what’s the problem.

NotSpaghetti

Mt61 and madalene

mum, mummy, nana etc aren't ^ names^. I do not think they signify anything to do with your special relationships. As someone said upthread, anyone can be a mother/grandmother etc. They may not even be liked.

If they love you it doesn't matter what they call you. Your name (or position in family) does not prove love.
I love my mother-in-law. I call her by her first name.

^& that’s how it should be 😊^

My mil was cantankerous- it would have irked me to call her mum or mother - just called her by her first name Ivy & sometimes “poison Ivy”under my breath 🙄

I don't have a Christian name and not do any of my family. That said ....
My father and mother insisted we called them Mama and Dada when we were kids. I hated this and found it embarrassing as I grew older. Then my father said he was happy being called his first name (Heinz) and my mother eventually followed suit with her own name ( Juanita). Once we had our own children, their first grandchildren, my father refused to be Grandpa or granddad and asked for Heinz ( negotiated to Papa Heiss by our children) and Juanita became Mamanita.
Now my grandson, of his own volition, calls his mum and Dad by their first names, from a small child. He sussed that he'd be answered faster that way, having observed and drawn his own conclusions!
He still calls us Grandma and Grandpa though.

My daughter has always called me Mum but my son has always called me and his Dad by our first names, we never really knew why and frequency tried to stop him.
Interestingly in a card or on a note he always writes Mum. And in his speech at his Dads funeral he refereed to us as Mum and Dad.

I was Christened in the Church of England, so I have a Christian name. Couldn’t care one jot what the ‘thread police’ think. You can’t turn back time or turn it into something else.

madalene when I said that "I do not think they signify anything to do with your special relationship" I am simply stating what I think - and the "your" was intended as in "people's" special relationship, not any one individual.

I also said that "it doesn't matter what they call you" - I believe this is true.

I am certainly not "denigrating" your decision to be called whatever you like by your children.

If my writing came out as that, apologies, I didn't intend to cause distress.

I called my parents mummy and daddy when young and then mum and dad as I got older and my DC have done the same , we’re mum and dad to them . I called my in-laws by their given names as did my DH for my parents .
My brothers kids call him a Spanish version of his given name , which his xwife always used .

The children of my dearest friend called their parents by their first names. The children were both born in the early 1970s.

It sounded very odd to hear their toddler daughter, a whisp of a child with an imperious voice calling her parents John and Mary.

I noticed that when these children grew up and had their own children,their children used the usual Mummy/Daddy, Mum/Dad. However the grandchildren addressed their grandparents by their first names.

Back in the 1960s it was quite cool to call your parents by their names; my poor mum and dad, or "Hen" and "Nella" as they became known for several years! I reverted to Mum and Dad in the '70s .

My mum was grannie first name and now I’m grannie first name. My adult daughters and their friends starting using an unusual short. Erosion of my first name after a drama production they did as part of A levels. Twenty years later it’s still used, with fun and affection, I tend to get muuummm when they’re worried about something or I’m needed as emergency gran unexpectedly

I called my in-laws by their first names, as they asked.

I don’t like Nanny or Nana, because to me that’s a nursemaid, not a grandmother. Those terms aren’t used for grandparents by anyone in our family. We have Grandma and Granny. (I’m Grandma.)

When my son was small he sometimes used to call his father Daddy Jim. It wasn’t official, just what he came up with.