We call my daughter by her nickname most of the time and her full name if we're upset with her/trying to get her attention.
We call my son by his full name for the most part. Sometimes when I'm exasperated with him I'll text my husband/friends about him and call him 'Mal' (Malcolm) and we call him Buddy a lot, but we mainly use his whole name.
Post by bookqueen15 on Aug 4, 2016 11:52:29 GMT -5
We mainly use her nickname, which comes from her given name, especially her first year. In the past 6 months or so I've started using her full name more and she definitely understands that it is her name too. I've asked her which she prefers recently and she said the nickname so we'll stick with that for now. I have a whole bunch of other nicknames we use also though.
We aren't big on nicknames, and had considered a longer name for Eva like Evelyn or Evangeline, but decided we'd never use it and didn't like it as much. We call her Eva or Eva Jean about equally though.
Post by rootbeerfloat on Aug 4, 2016 13:24:19 GMT -5
We only call DS by his first name if we're somewhere official (school, etc) or with his friends since they all use it. But we use his middle name or any of his nicknames, which are largely derived from his middle name.
My grandmother was very concerned that we were going to continue to call DS Jellybean for he rest of his life. She said to my mother, "I really hope that name doesn't stick." It didn't. We only call him by his given name.
Post by callmehales on Aug 4, 2016 13:34:11 GMT -5
I was very anti "shortened version of name as nickname" for DD, and we gave her a name that wouldn't really be easy to shorten (Maren).
Except we started calling her Tootie all sorts of variations since she was 1 day old. So jokes on me, lol. My mother insists she'll HATE being called tootie or toots when she's older...which is rich coming from a woman who wants her grandkids to call her PICKLE.
Post by closertofine on Aug 4, 2016 13:34:34 GMT -5
I only use dd's full name. In fact, I'm pretty adamantly against the nickname Allie. The other day she was playing with a little boy at the pool and his grandma, and he kept calling her Allie, and she had no idea he was talking to her. His grandma finally corrected him.
I only use ds's full name and Zachy. But I don't care if others call him Zach. I asked him was he prefers recently, and he said Zachary. So we'll see.
fn2187, then you may hate me because one of the names I call her is "baboo" (sounds like buh-boo, but people may hear it differently). But that (to me) is Gujarati for darling/sweetie.
callmehales, I snorted at your mom's preferred name. Where did she get that?!
fn2187 , then you may hate me because one of the names I call her is "baboo" (sounds like buh-boo, but people may hear it differently). But that (to me) is Gujarati for darling/sweetie.
callmehales , I snorted at your mom's preferred name. Where did she get that?!
My sister started dating my BIL like 8 years ago, when his son with his ex was maybe 2. So he's been around our family most of his life. When he was little, he called everyone "Ms. Firstname" but then one year at thanksgiving he wanted to figure out something else to call my parents. Somehow we jokingly said Pickle, cuz my sister eats them a lot or some nonsense. I HAAATE it, and figured when I had the first grandkid I could cut that shit out.
Except we spent over a year trying before we had to go the RE and ended up doing IVF, and my little sister had a baby. So not only did I have to deal with not giVing my parents their first grandchild AND how bad it sucked for my sister to be pregnant when I wasn't sure I'd ever have a bio kid...I also have to deal with this asinine name I loathe, that reminds me every time I hear it of just one more thing IF stole from me. And my mother loves it, she says all her friends think it's adorable and if I try and suggest something else she says "well, my friend Cheryl /Bonnie/whoever is already GiGi/Gram/whatever". Like there's a limit on grandma names.
Well my first was nicknamed chunky so we eventually needed to phase that out.
My father called me "gorda" (equivalent of chunky in Spanish) until I was in HIGH SCHOOL.
To answer the OP, I call DD by her name more now that she's older, but still have a string of terms of affection for her that I've used since birth- cielo, mi vida, etc. DS has somehow become "Titi" almost as often as the regular nn for his given name. I don't plan to call him this until HS, but who knows?
callmehales Ugh. I am sorry, that is truly unfair on so many levels. I would still encourage your DD to call her by a "normal" grandma name. Your child, your rules?
callmehales Ugh. I am sorry, that is truly unfair on so many levels. I would still encourage your DD to call her by a "normal" grandma name. Your child, your rules?
This is my plan. And, this is probably flame full BUT my BIL found out he's being stationed in Italy come November, so they'll be gone for 3 years. Which means my niece won't be around to call her pickle while I try and get something else to stick. I hate that they'll be so far away and I know my mom is gonna be super sad...but I'm happy about that part .
We have tons of weird nicknames for both of them and then we also use shortened versions of their first names (extremely common nicknames). I really only use their full first names in conjunction with their middle name if I'm trying to get their attention.
We are adamant that DS not be called by the shortened version of his name. He is too. However, I call him sweet pea and sweetheart and all sorts of pet names. To the point that now he asks me to call him that and not his name. not sure about that. Lol
I usually call him G. H usually calls him G-man. My dad calls him Grey and I have no idea where that came from (I mean, I do, but no one else calls him that).
Still trying to figure out the new baby's nickname. It's usually goose because that's what he sounds like when he nurses. I sometimes call him Dino or He-man because he's snorty and large, respectively.
DDs name doesn't really have a short version. She's only a day old so it feels very strange to hear her name out loud! My mom has been saying it a lot and it's driving me absolutely nuts.
I've been calling her Layla Bear and Laylee a lot and can see either one of those sticking for a while. I think we are the types that any consistent nn we use would include some part of her name.
Lol, I thought this thread was going to be about the trend for nickname names (Ellie vs Eleanor, Katie vs Katherine, Leo vs Leonard). I was all set to argue against this trend, but now I see it's not about that at all.
We call A by her given name. Sometimes she's baby bear or Banana, but mostly we use her name, which she now knows (this is one of her few accomplishments).