How do you refer to your children?

Some people just have no sense of humor! I've called my bunch: monkeys, rugrats, munchkins and the zoo crew. If pet names are said with love and respect what's the big deal? I can understand if someone was name calling to be hurtful, but not if it's used as a term of endearment. My husband and my oldest daughter call each other "zipperhead". My daughter thinks it's hilarious, but she's got an oddball sense of humor like me.

rodents lol thats funny. i use monsters cause thats what they are. I just happen to love monsters. Next time someone complains just tell them you love rodents so whats wrong with that.

We called ours honyocks. Don't ask me where that came from, I think my husband made it up!

When all mine were younger they were the Ragamuffins and I always numbered my children no1 daughter ect. That way people would know which child I referred to as I have 3 daughters and 1 son. Now I only have 2 living at home one is The Brat and the other is Gargage Disposal Unit. For some reason my son goes through lots of growth spurts and is always eating so hence the name.

I call my daughter "Bobby" even though her name is not even close to that I have no idea why it is just something I have called her since she was very young and I call my son Dude. But when they are my nerves and have been crazy all day I will tell people "Mark's children" did blah blah today. I have no idea why someone else would get upset over the nicknames you gave your children, esp. since your children know that when you call them rodents you actually mean it in the most loving manner.

LOL love the name, i call mine horrors or the evil pair, kids will be kids and they always have their moments. And when they are really good (lol very rare) i call them my little sausages

Everybody has little names for their kids I'm pretty sure. Like munchkin or goblins etc. I don't think it should matter, unless you actually hate your kids and think they are rodents

I used to call my son "poo poo head".As a matter of fact I still call him that and he is 21. I don't see why you got slammed all they are are cute little names.

lol, I think that's rather cute. I tend to use to word munchkins. I think we all have terms of endearment for our children and I don't understand why one would take offense to it. Our children know we're just teasing them. I have definitely used the word monsters with mine when they misbehave. I think this is probably one of the more common ones, lol

when im online i refer to my 2 as dd-darling daughter ds-darling son can say what i call them when im angry,ill get banned from mylot haha

Oh I just love this one!!! We all have our silly pet names that we use to refer to our children. My husband refers to one daughter as Princess and the other daughter as Angel. It makes it easy to give gifts that have that title on them. So now the girls have pillows, diaries, notebooks, backpacks, t-shirts, etc. that have their pet names on them. Hahaha, one of the girls even has a collection of tiara's. The one we got her for her 15th birthday lights up and blinks. She wore it to high school all day long and everyone knew it was her birthday. The older children were nicknamed Pumpkin and Loner.

OMG! What a silly thing for someone to jump on you about. In my house we call them all monkeys. They each have their individual nick names but if we need them to something as a group we call them monkeys (ie, get in the car monkeys). We call my 4 year old "Gus" because when she was little she looked like the mouse from Cinderella. I put it down under the nickname section of her pre school registration and it confused the heck out of the school. They even listed her in the directory as "Gus ____" Don't let it bother ya, as long as you know you love them that's all that counts.

I call my kids bella or bello which means beautiful and handsome. Or bebas which means babies. If they stress me I call them by their full names!

Yah same here.

some people just dont have a sense of humour at all.you dont mean anything by it,i have a whole range of names for my three,munchkin,little man,horror,terrible trio,princess,madam,as i have a girl and two boys.it all depends.dont worry about the miserable buggers.

I think its cute to have terms of endearment for your kids. My kids are adults now age 22 and 27, but I referred to them as rugrats when they were younger. They understood 'rugrats' as an endearing term. Something I called them in an affectionate way. As long as your children understand 'rodent' as being an affectionate name for them (and it sounds like they understand your affectionate nickname for them) then I see no problem with it. Keep calling them 'rodents' and 'monsters' and have a great day.

I’m afraid we are very boring with our nicknames, our daughter gets online miss 10, or whatever year she is, I’ve been talking online since she was a Miss 3. In the real life, hubby calls her a little monkey, she hates it, so it is a teasing point between them.

I personally don't see what all the fuss is about. It's just a term and it's not like you meant anything by it. It's just a word. I think people need to relax a bit and stop trying to take things so literally.

Hi, I know that you dont mean anything by that, but I have to admit that the terms you use are a bit harsh. I mean rodents is basically rats. Even though you dont mean anything by that. But it may hurt your kids one day. In my religion, I believe that many of our sins are started by our mouth. Whatever we said may be a sins. So by saying that your kids are rodents it is like wishing that they are rodents. It may have no effect nowadays, but it may have effect later on in their behaviour, in their way of thinking, in their way of respecting themselves etc. I know that you dont mean anything by that, but maybe you could find a term that are more endearment? just a simple suggestion. My own parents always call me by name, or my nicknames that are similar to my actual name. :)

I think someone is just being overly sensitive. You run into a lot of people like that. I call my kids the same thing as my numerous friends...My Freaky Darlings. My children and my friends are so different in their own way. It kind of reminds me of that move LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMAN because we have our own specialties and we all help out. For example, when another friend finally gets onboard with MySpace, I tell them, "welcome to the collective of My Freaky Darlings!"