What do your children call your helpers?

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)
 
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.
 
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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