that my daughter calls my boyfriend daddy?

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My partner and I split up whilst I was still pregnant (he cheated on me.)

He generally has her on the weekends. It works for us because he works irregular shifts so would find it hard to look after her during weekdays.

Anyway, I started dating someone when my DD was 6 months(ish) and she is now 2. He moved in after a year and is now quite a bit part of DD's life.

DD calls him daddy, and I always say to her "no sweetheart, that's not daddy thats X "

I genuinely think the word daddy just means man to her, because I didn't introduce my partner to her until a month before he moved in. And my ex was the only man that she saw on a regular basis.

She even calls my dad daddy and last week when I was having coffee, she pointed to the man on the next table and said daddy.

I correct her, but she's two so I don't think she quite understands what I mean.

My ex came to pick her up last weekend and she called my partner daddy and my ex was clearly very upset and told me I was being cruel and vindictive and shouldn't let it happen.

You're doing the best you can...you're correcting her which you should be, and if you continue to then it will sink in eventually. I can see why you ex was upset, he doesn't see you correcting her on a regular basis so may have taken it out of context. The fact that you care about it, shows that it's an important issue to you, so don't let it get you down.

Not quite the same but my DD is 2 and she calls every man she sees "Nathan" because of one of our friends....even men who look absolutely nothing like him.

I think you should speak to your ex, reassure him that this has not come from you and you will always correct her and that HE is Daddy.

I know someone who adopted a little girl who called every lady she liked mummy, and every man she liked, daddy. She simply meant 'nice person'.

I would think up a nickname for your boyfriend if you don't want him to be referred to as daddy, but I also think your ex needs to understand that for a child, if someone walks like a daddy, talks like a daddy and acts like a daddy he may get called daddy, and that children completely get that you can have more than one and love each very much.

For what it's worth I wouldn't be comfortable with this, and would probably go down the nickname/pet name route. I don't think YABU but I don't think your ex is either.

At one point my DD called every woman with grey hair granny . You need to explain this to him.

a lot of 2 year olds think in their heads that mummy means woman and daddy means man it is quite common maybe email your ex explaining this, most children automatically stop this by 2.5-3 years old

my DD did it for daddy and to a lesser extent mummy

neither you nor ex ABU, ex's surprise and disappointment understandable as he has been regular part of her life, but I think an email should sort it tell him wha\t you told us and also that she calls most men daddy not just him and DP

Yanbu. You are trying to correct her it isn't as if you're encouraging it.

DD has slipped up a few times but I correct her and try to explain to her.

She calls my partner babe. listening to me too much!

My dh is a bus driver and when he was about two he used to call every bus driver daddy! It. Was very embarassing! He was also in the territorial army and when he was eighteen months old we took him to an army event and he pointed to the soldiers and shouted daddy! This was while he was in his daddys arms! Not sure why I.shared this tbh except to say its all perfectly normal!

2 is quite young...she will get it, until then everyone will have to be patient.