dd doesn't want to be called her 'special' name any more!

[dinny]

dd, who is 3.5, said to me this afternoon, 'Mummy, please don't call me Minnow any more. You can call me Tabitha, that's my name.'

she's growing up way too fast!

well, that's you told now, isn't it!!!

hardly ever call her by her real name though - always Minnow.... boo hoooo....

This christmas DD (6yrs) anounnced her Christmas name and asked that we call her that on christmas day

My son has suddently took a dislike to the name "carrot", he's been fine with it up until now too! lol

Dinny, I was called Katie (which has nothing at all to do with my actual name) until I was seven. Then flounced and insisted I was to be addressed by my real name from then on. I miss being called Katie now!

Carrot, so cute, Skettle

think will call her Minnow a bit still, and risk her fury for now

My mother was apparently called Bubbles until she went to school. We had to get her very, very drunk before she'd admit to that one!

Ds, 5, announced the other day he wanted to be called Dave....

Ah, my friend's dd insisted on being known by a completely different name for about two weeks. Doesn't last usually.

She might come back round to it. Ds got very indignant about boddles for a time and now accepts it wearily
He is six.
My mother used to call my dsis and me Fanny and Tatum respectively as children, so you can always tell Madam Tabitha she has got off blooming lightly

My 3yo has always said "cooter-tooter" for computer and "Jack-in-the-tato" for jacket potato. Some interfering so-and-so has taught him to say them properly. I feel bereaved!!!!

I felt much sadder when ds finally dispensed with mus-kick than I did when boddles was vetoed. And even the mention of his invisible friend Randall, who got his P45 last year after three years of companionship, makes me all tearful...

My three year old is dispensing with all sorts of things...
nanimals
bro-coc-olli
mom-mar (grandma)

but to my delight, he is still bellowing out his 'xmas ear' song

we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new ear

awww, but Minnow is such a sweet name!!! I got told the other day that DD isn't gorgeous, after saying "Are you gorgeous?"... "No, I girl!!! "

That told me...

She'll soon be saying "I gorgeous girl" if she's anything like mine Flamesparrow.

I swear the poor child thought her name was "gorgeous" for the first 12 months!!!

My ds is 11 and I still call him noddyHe says he doesn't mind but did raise an eyebrow when I put a choccie bear biscuit in his lunch yesterday!

Aww this is too sad. I will cry and cry when ds gives up his 'special' name. My nephew used to be called Tiffer (couldn't say Christopher when he was little) and we got told the same thing, "Don't call me Tiffer." We used to call another girl I looked after "Mrs. P" until she was about 6 when she banned it. I can occasionally get away with it now she is 13, perhaps you can save Minnow for when she's older and can appreciate it again!

(Tabitha a beautiful name btw )

these little people know how to tug on our heart strings, hey?

she has relented today and said I can call her Minnow, but only for "40 minutes time".

at her old nursery the teachers were called Miss Jane etc etc and she went through a phase of making me call her Miss Tabitha. v amusing.

DD is called Moo and The Moog

am waiting for her objection

my nephew couldnt say his name when he was small (ricky) and used to call himself "kick kick" that kind of stuck, he is now 8 and allows me to still call him kick as we dont get to see them v often i think he is just keeping me amused.

DS1 was called Ke-Ke for ages..I was really sad when he learned to pronounce his name properly. DS2 has about a million pet names, including Fatty Bum-bum and Silly-Sausagepot...I expect sooner or later he will rebel and tell us to stop humiliating him him public