If your child does NOT call their nanny "Nanny" what does your child call them?

[Anonymous]

We had a summer nanny who was a teacher at my kids ES so they always called her Miss XXXX so when they went back to school it wouldn't be an issue. I had nannies growing up and we always called them by their first names.

[Anonymous]

I was always Mimi because my name was long/difficult. Parents often said “ask your Mimi” or “your Mimi will take you to school”.

[Anonymous]

What’s nannies preference?

I know a handful of nannies who go by Nanny and many who go by Mrs/Ms/Miss first name.

I just go by my first name and do not wish to go by Mrs. or Nanny.

[Anonymous]

Our nanny prefers her first name. We checked with her to make sure.

[Anonymous]

Nanny here. I go by my first name but my favorite is when the kids give me a nickname based on their best approximation of my name.

I think going by Ms. Lastname would be incredibly formal and I can’t imagine doing it.

I AM southern so the “Miss Firstname” things sounds normal to me, but it also feels kind of distant. I am hardly a “big sister” type as someone above implied, but I tend to nanny primarily for infants and toddlers so it is a deeply intimate relationship. It feels overly self-important to choose some kind of arbitrary invented honorific. There really isn’t a parallel relationship to the kind of nannying I do (typically with the kids from birth or early infancy through preschool or kindergarten). So I am just myself. My name is it’s own badge of honor on the tongues of my beloved charges.

[Anonymous]

I asked, the nanny said she didn't care, so we introduced her to the kid by her first name.