2.5 yr old DD calling me by my name

I'm not afraid of being called my name by my kids. I just don't like it. Sometimes people want to be called by their "titles", like mother, granny, terms of endearment, your highness (in court, not at home), professor, dr, whatever.
You can have an opinion about that, but that's absolutely normal.

My two year old shouts out my husbands name when she want’s something. I don’t think she knows it’s his name just think its the noise you make when you want him 😂

Agreed. DS sometimes calls us by our names, and has since toddlerhood. I can’t say it bothers me in the slightest. It’s kind of sweet.

This is an odd response surely the counter argument is why are some people so afraid that their kids call them by their actual name?

Well, DH was about that age when he decided to call all four grandparents by their first names, and that never stopped. I think he got fascinated about how DH’s dad was ‘Dad’ to DH but ‘Firstname’ to me and MIL, and ‘Granddad’ to him, and decided to mix things up.

My 5 year old calls me mummy or my name and sometimes she calls me wally brain and I've no idea where she's got that from

Why are people afraid of telling their kids how to call them? It's the same as asking someone to call you by the correct name and not a nickname. "I'm Mum. " is enough (my 12 year old call me by my name when he wants to piss me off, though 😂 )

lol
it’sa phase
my two done it x

Mine did it for a day then stopped. He’s now started saying mum instead of mummy though which I hate!

Witches call things by their proper name

This reminds me of the time my then 2yo wasn’t getting my attention by calling “mum” so loudly screamed “HUNNNNNNN”

Mine does this sometimes- especially when we’ve had guests stay so he hears my name my often. I do initially jokingly say “Fiona?! It’s mummy to you!”. But then after that I’ll leave it and he eventually stops. He also calls me “mum” a lot which I don’t like (fine when he’s older but at 3 I want him to call me mummy or mama! I know that’s a me issue so again whilst I encourage mummy I mostly try to ignore it, and now he’ll use both, but as long as it isn’t “mum” all the time I’m okay with it.

Basically, not much you can do unless you make a deal of it, which could go either way. Hopefully she’ll soon drop out of it. Just encourage mummy by yourself and by her dad so it becomes the norm again.

I use to playfully say 'it's mummy to you' and DS would say 'mummy-o' because he couldn't say the to you bit.

SO cute!! They all do it. It passes.

Why? Sure it may be normal to use mum or dad or variations on that but parents do have names also

My son called his dad by his christian name until he started school, then called him dad, influenced by the other children, we didn’t mind either way.

My DS is the same age and sometimes calls me by my name. I just laugh. It isn’t really a big deal and if he knows I don’t like it he will just do it more!

The novelty will wear off soon, don’t worry!

Apparently, I cried when I found out my mum’s name wasn’t “mummy”. “not Debbie, mummy” was being wailed around the supermarket…

My 2.5 year old often calls me daddy because he thinks it's funny. I don't mind, I don't really see why you would tbh, it's not as if they're deliberately trying to upset you. Fwiw my 5yo has started calling me Mummy Pig (as in Peppa Pig). I think it's funny!

@Lyra87 well just tell mil that she has not to use your first names! she must us mummy and daddy. not john and fiona!

When either of mine calls me by my first name, I answered them and call them a random name. We all have a giggle then they use mummy again.

I do think it's important that they know your names though incase they ever get lost.

Mine is the same age and keeps doing this to me and her dad. One of her little friends is doing the same to her parents. They are both very cheeky about it and giggle when they’re doing it so I think it’s a reaction thing and testing boundaries. She will grow out of it!

I'm going through this with my DGC. He sometimes calls me Granny. I like Grandma.
But we now joke about it.
When he does I call him a shortened version of his name and he says 'no that's not my name!'
So I explain that Granny isn't my name.
He also calls me by my given name but again I turn it into a joke. He's 2.5 yrs old too.
And because I went through it with my own DCs I know it will pass.

She’s still getting her head around relationships, people and how they are referred to. You want to be called mammy. But no one else calls you mammy so she doesn’t hear it to learn it. But Mil is Granny Name, so there must be something to using the name. Your DH could clearly say “Hello Mammy” when he sees her. Because Granny Name is Mammy to DH. Etc.

Mostly, it’s a learning phase and it will sort itself out. Don’t forget, to your dd, you could have four names - Mrs Clark, Anne, Aunty Anne and Mammy.

it's a phase and it will rear it's head again as teens.
it is your name, just say you like when she calls you mammy better.

Both mine did this briefly. Probably around the same sort of age. Presumably because everyone else called me by my name! They stopped fairly quickly I seem to remember. I probably just said - only you get to call me me mummy, or similar