Children of gay parents, how do you refer to them?
Some gay dads say they will encourage their kids to use their first names. Others, I imagine them to be the most relaxed of the bunch, want to wait and see what name the kids start using organically. The same questions gets asked on Gay Dad Private Facebook over and over and over: What do your kids call you? Gay Dad Private Facebook fills anxiously with the same question asked over and over and over: What do your kids call you? 20 Alternatives To "Mom" & "Dad," Used By IRL LGBTQ+ Parents
votes, comments. In a heterosexual relationship, children call their parents 'mom and dad', but what do you guys call them?. One of the things that initially got me excited about starting this blog was the fact that no one seems to agree on some of the simplest gay parenting questions. Google that. 
What do gaybies call their dads?
So gay bros, what do your kids call you and your partner to differentiate between the two of you?” Here are some of the responses from daddies in the chat. Mother's Day, Father's Day. The world of parenting seems to be divided into two camps: the mom group and the dad crowd.
What do the children of gay couples call their parents?
One of the most frequent questions I’ve heard from prospective LGBTQ+ parents is “What should our kids call us?” I therefore began the Mombian LGBTQ Parental Names Project in to collect examples of our parental names. Here are just a few of the names — and the stories behind them — that more than people have now anonymously shared. There are, unsurprisingly, lots of “Mom. .
What Do Kids Call Their LGBTQ Parents? 100s of Answers
Whether we (the gay community) like it or not, teachers will ask our children “what does your Dad do for a living” and our children will have to jump through an additional hurdle (not a difficult one if you sit them down and have a rational conversation with them) to answer it. . A Parent By Any Other Name
"What do your kids call you?" Many of us LGBTQ parents have gotten this questionand many of us asked it of others when we were considering parenting. Six years ago, I posted a form to collect and share answers to this question, and the responses keep coming in (with so far!), so I thought I'd do a fresh post about it--and ask again for more answers!. . Children to LGBTQ+ parents, what do you call them?
What kids call gay parents is a relatively new question. And although lesbians are far more likely to have children either from previous (heterosexual) relationships as well as together (using a sperm donor), gay dads are still quite rare. . 
In Two
In the book "Gay Dads: A Celebration of Fatherhood," a little adopted girl was troubled by not having both a Mom and a Dad. This was because she understood a Mom to be someone you could go to with all sorts of troubles that you couldn't go to Dad about. So the parents let her label one of them as Mom and one of them as Dad. .