I saw this over on ask men over 30 (I think that one anyway), and I thought it was a fun question. I remember babysitting my niece who was about 2.5 years old at the time, and she realized the names I was using were her parents. Now at that time, it didn’t really click the distinction between their names and Mom/Daddy, but I imagine it did once she was a bit older and learned it again.
How has it been for y’all? Any funny stories?
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I have 3yo she used to correct everyone saying that I’m mummy and my husband is daddy. But picked up quite quickly that we have names also.
However in our family unit she has mummy, daddy and sister and sister can’t call us mummy & daddy without 3yo correcting her that we are her parents and she is her sister 🙈. And when I said that granny is my mummy she just said “That’s crazy she’s my granny”.
My name is Rachel. My 2 year old daughter loves Ms Rachel. When I told her MY name was also Rachel she looked at me and said “No, you not Rachel” 😆
Now at 2.5 she’ll randomly call me Rachel 🤷🏻♀️
I refused to call my parents mum and dad because no one else did and so thought it was a trick!
My mom taught us the names early on, must’ve been as soon as we could pronounce them, and she’d quiz us until we got them right. Not just hers and our fathers’, also our grandparents.
I have no memory of this, but she kept a journal.
We spent about 10 days with my family over Christmas so my 2 year old heard a lot of people call my husband his given name. She started referring to him as [Name], and we were like, no, honey, that’s your daddy, you can call him Daddy. So she started calling him [Daddy Name] because I guess in her head he had adopted a second name. Now that it’s been a few months she doesn’t do it as often but when she does do it in public I tell my husband that it makes me feel like a polyandrist.