dd has started calling me by my name..........

[swiperfox]

instead of Mummy!!!!

It sounds really strange!! Anyone else's do this or has she decided to divorce her parents already??!

[kid]

My DS (3.4) has started calling me by my name. I was going to start a thread about it the other day.

He will call me my name and then burst out laughing. He doesn't do it often, I choose to ignore him when he does it, but it doesn't bother me. I reckon it might confuse his nursery teacher though!

[LilMissy]

I used to know a family who wouldn't answer their children if they used mummy and daddy - it was their names or nothing..


Carla

[nooka]

My two started to experiment with our names a while back, and my dh got very upset. I didn't have a major problem with it, but told them that mummy and daddy were our special names that only they could use, and that seemed to sort it out (for now anyway)

[Juliettesmum]

I live with my parents and i am a young mother of a 15 month old baby. She sometimes calls my mum, Mum and me by my name (or something that sounds like my name!) I just say that I am her mum and my mum is grandma. I'm sure she'll get it right someday. When she is upset though, she comes up to me crying Mummy!!! She knows who her own mummy really is.

[ThePrisoner]

My eldest dd started calling her dad (my dh!) by his name when she was just about old enough to talk, and has used it ever since ... and she's now 21!! She still calls me "mummy", but does it in a whiney voice and usually because she wants something (which involves money).

[wordsmith]

I don't see what's wrong with calling mummy by her name. it could be worse, "Hey, you, bitch!!!"

DS1 sometimes calls me by my name. i don't mind but my DH thinks it's wrong. DS's friends call me by my name, not 'Aunty', which I can't stand.

[LunarSea]

ds does this when he decides he's not getting a quick enough response by yelling for "mummy" or "daddy".

[Kelly1978]

I don't think my ds knows my name! He got lost in Debenhams the other day, his fav trick at the moment is to hide and then find a stranger and tell them he has lost his mummy.
He goes up to her and she asks, so you know your mummy's name. He ays yes. She says, what is it? He says 'Mummy!'.
dd calls me mama, no idea y, and dp calls me mama to the twins, so I guess apart from ds1 I will be mama. I couldn't ever let them call em by my name.

[liandme]

before i met my dp my dd used to go up to fellas and say hi i am aaliyah-may and this is my mum clare i used to die but she thought it was funny

[littleshebear]

My eldest son used to call me by my first name most of the time - I can't say I was bothered at all by it. He usually called his grandparents by their first names too - and his auntie. I don't know why - he's always been a big talker and loved talking to adults - perhaps it was something to do with imitation of how adults talk to each other. It definitely wasn't being cheeky or attention seeking - very matter of fact. Funnily enough reading this thread has made me realise he calls me mum most of the time now - he's now 12 and I wonder whether it's more important to him now to conform with his peers. My other children always call me mum and have never used my first name at all.

[colditz]

My son does this when we have been with other people's children are seeking my attention.

[swiperfox]

It doesn't upset or bother me, it just sounded really strange after calling me Mummy all the time to suddenly hear her shouting at me "Heather!!" or worse, "Hev!!"

[Monstersmum]

Mine does it sometmes - usually when he hears lots of others calling me by my name - natrual really I suppose. I think it's funny but do remind him that it's Mummy to him!

But even that seems strange as I'm Irish and we are usually "Mammy". But at least Mummy is better than Mom which I get sometimes too!!

[LeahE]

I started doing that at that age and it stuck -- my parents never objected and my younger siblings and I all call our parents by their first names. There's no theoretical reason why not, but I'm going to stick to Mummy and Daddy with DS. Causes too much confusion otherwise.

[Blu]

Umm, do people find this upsetting or 'wrong' then? they hear other people calling you by your name, they are experimenting. DS had a spate of calling me by the 'pet' name DP has for me - it was quite funny. But now he has finshed trying things out, he feels most comforted by the exclusivity of 'Mummy'.

[bigdonna]

my kids only do this when i tell them im changing my name!my dd has a friend at school who calls her parents by their first names.

[Tommy]

my nephew used to do this! His teacher told him not to when he went to school which my sister was a bit annoyed about - she quite rightly said that it's not up to the teacher to decide what he should call his Mum!
He calls her Mum now and he's 18

[FionaJT]

My nephews (aged 7 and 9) call both their parents by their names, although the younger one especially uses Mum and Dad quite a bit too. They just started of their own accord a few years ago, and neither parent ever objected so it has just carried on.

[Ericblack]

My friend's two little boys used to call her by her first name. 6 months later they're calling her by a short version of it. A bit scarey.

[Lonelymum]

Mine did this for a while. I didn't mind it although I am not a trendy mum who wants her children to call her by her name. I guessed (correctly) that it was just a phase, although, every now and again, one or other of my children will call me or dh by our first names.

[spidermama]

MIOne did this for a while. It's because they hear others doing it. It only lasted a couple of months.

[TwinSetAndPearls]

My dd does this every now and again and thinks its hilarious. As with most things child related, ignore it and it will go away.

[purpleturtle]

Definitely a phase, but I did notice that having a little person shout your name at you a lot in the demanding kind of way they have is a lot more trying than when they use 'Mummy'. Somehow, just being reminded that I'm Mummy provides extra patience.

[jennifersofia]

My 4.5 yr old does it regularly with me and with dh, as well as calling us mummy and daddy. I don´t mind really, I think it is natural as that is what they hear everyone else call us. Don´t see a problem with the experimentation of it.

[Tortington]

i just ignored it - dont answer to it.