I have recently moved in with my 'partner' (hate that word!) and I'm wondering what I should encourage my daughter (2 and a half) to think of him as. She spends quite a lot of time with her father (2 nights a week), and knows that DP isn't her dad. In fact she talks about this quite a lot and I can tell she isn't having an easy time making sense of it all. Why would she? When we read books that have the mummy, daddy, child/ren theme I can see her wondering why this isn't the way it is in her life. Its easy enough to clarify who her daddy is, and to try and explain that there are lots of different types of families, but does naming DP as 'step-daddy' add to the confusion? She calls DP by his name but that clearly doesn't explain much about his status in her life. Has anyone had experience of this?
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