What do your children call your helpers?

[lalila]

Just interested to hear what your children call your helpers?

 

[nicolejoy]

Ours calls her "Aunt (name)".

 

[jvn]

Nothing yet, but he will call her by her first name

 

[plumtree]

Our old helper (who's since left): Yaya
The new helper: Auntie [her name] or Ate (I think 'auntie' in Tagalog, but I might be wrong)

 

[starbucks2]

By her first name.

 

[Sazzy]

Yaya (which is Auntie in Flippino) and I call her by her name so both

 

[zyxwv]

We use "Tita ____" (although my son has just mastered Tita and can't say her first name yet).

I'm fairly certain tita means auntie in Tagalog and yaya means nanny. Had a very close Filipino friend in US who used it to mean auntie. I also asked our helper when she first started. Who knows, maybe they are actually interchangeable for auntie.

 

[FutureHKmom]

My son calls our helper Auntie (name).

 

[carang]

yaya, which is nanny (not auntie)

 

[baffelly]

By her first name. But in hk, it's common to call helpers "auntie" or "Jie Jie" which means big sister
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[snagito]

Teetha (means auntie in Tagalog)

 

[siugoomama]

i ask my son to say Aunty Nita (my helper). I like to give him the idea that he is to respect her just as much, and not treat her like a Maid..

 

[joyofliving]

My daughter calls the Helper by her first name.

 

[thanka2]

By her first name and sometimes with Auntie added

 

[lesliefu]

yaya or by their first name.