to be getting a bit concerned...

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DS is 3yrs 8mths. He starts Reception in September. He often chooses a different name - today he is stegosaurus (or "steggy") and the other day he was "Tree Fu Tom". Thing is, if anyone asks him his name, this is what he says!

Please someone tell me he'll grown out of this before school, or that they won't mind!

DS had his first conversation with his deputy head entirely in woofs as he was a dog for most of reception.

I so read that as the deputy head was the dog

As long as he can answer to his own name / knows his actual name? Once had a child whose parents had called him 'baby' all his life so when starting reception he genuinely had no idea of his real name.

When my son was three he was always some type of "very dangemous dinosaur." He would insist on being called T-Rex, velociraptor, etc. It was hilarious and adorable. Enjoy it while it lasts.

“you can call me Bruce Wayne until you’ve earned my trust”
Love it!

My brother had an imaginary friend called 'boyfriend' who he'd call on his blue plastic phone. He'd talk to him for hours. He's 50+ now, and we still remind him of this.

We've had various dinosaurs, beetles, farm animals and the occasional rock. And that's just with DS2. Some children just have more imagination than others. It's honestly nothing that his teacher won't have seen a hundred times before.

Dd was Bongo at that age and Tom from memory

Fabulous

DB had a friend called 'Joe' and my DParents had to set a place at the table for him. 'Joe' sometimes got caught in the car door, poor love.

Anyway, I wouldn't go downstairs unless the name shouted was 'George', on account of wanting to be the Famous Five's 'George'. It didn't work; mum wasn't having any of it!!

My eldest would only answer to Ben 10 when he was small! He’s 12 and long grown out of it!

DD at 3 insisted that she was 6, we had to keep her quiet on buses!

My DS likes to be called Sarah. In the world of transgender it can be a little eyebrow raising, but he absolutely loves Sarah and duck. So sometimes he says we have to call him Sarah, it's his dad I feel sorry for as he introduces him by saying 'and this is my pet duck'.
I'm 'scarf lady', his grandad is 'cake'. For the fellow Sarah and duck watchers!

He's 4, and starts at the same time as yours :)

My dgs (4 yrs 8 mnths) was the opposite, he would make up all sorts of games with book and tv characters but if you asked him if he was his favourite character it was always, no I ginsdgs. He would role play but insist on his proper name. His nursery teacher was expecting him to be more like OP's ds given his love of dressing up and role playing, she once commented that he had a very solid sense of self. I was never really sure if that was a positive or not.

it will pass. and onto a brand new crazy phase. My daughters current is to rhyme everything you say. Her grandmother shouted goodbye to her today at sainsburys and she screamed back "unless you have a pie". its just bizarre and cringe. and relentless. a waitress asked what drink she wanted yesterday and she declared "i'll have a dilk please". i told her to use her words properly or she would not get anything and was met with "unless you have a filk". after the FOURTH time she went drinkless

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it's his dad I feel sorry for as he introduces him by saying 'and this is my pet duck'.

this is amazing!!

My youngest cousin spent a couple of years only answering to his older brother's name! He must have been about 3/4/5. He couldn't understand that that name meant his brother but not him!
he's fine now lol

The teachers will be more impressed by his imagination than anything else! Don't worry!

I think that's pretty normal. My DS told a supply TA in reception that his name was Peter (ie Peter Parker/Spiderman) - which I discovered when I tried to give back the drawing which she had helpfully labelled with his fake name.