What do your children call their step dad?

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What do your children call their step dad? Their first name? Or something different?

His name. Sometimes she slips and calls him grandpa lol so it's grandpa (his first name) and a semi joke but she knows he's not his grandpa and also he is in 30s so hardly old looking lol 😂

His name. My eldest calls her dad's girlfriend her name too, can't imagine what else they would call them?

I called him his name

His name

His name

His name.

My Dd calls him by his name but introduces him as steppy 😃

Dad.

Their choice and they don’t have any contact with their bio father or his family.

DS calls STBXH by his name. I suspect he calls him other things outside of my hearing too. But STBXH deserves that.

His name

His first name. There was never any suggestion that they should call him anything else.

I called my step dad "Dad". Initially started with his name but by the time my mum married him when I was 7 I was calling him Dad and had decided to take his surname. I don't have a relationship with birth father and never will.

He calls him by his name but tends to refer to him as his dad. Will tell him he’s the best dad ever etc and would probably introduce him as “this is my dad, Toby” (not real name).

fwiw he’s nearly 6, no contact with his “dad” who turned out to be an abusive piece of shit, and my son is also adopted so doesn’t have the biological link to his “dad” to hold them together.

My oldest DD calls her stepdad Dad but he's been in her life since she was 18 months old. For the first year or so she called him by his name and then she gradually began to call him Daddy and then Dad. She had contact with her biological dad until 2 years ago so she knows he isn't her biological parent but he's the one who's there giving a shit and putting the effort in

If it happens it will be by his first name. I had stepkids when I was married and they were fairly young when I met them and they called me by my first name.

Papa ‘Dave’ or Papa, when speaking to him, shouting him etc he goes for Papa ‘Dave’, when talking about him he uses Papa.

He used to call him ‘Dave’ or Daddy ‘Dave’, but noe we call him Papa so our daughter calls him Papa when she can talk he has changed to that. He used to refer to him as Daddy ‘Dave’ when talking to others, which I didn’t actually know until his teacher mentioned Daddy ‘Dave’.

They used his name until we married than Dad..
They have never seen their own df...

DSS calls me my name unless he's talking to his brother ( my son) in which case he will say mum but more in the context of "go give mummy the book" rather then actually calling me mum.

He used to call his stepdad dad for a while at his mother's insistence when he was 2, she had known him a couple of months, moved in with him and stared this immediately. As he got older 6/7 he reverted to his name. In this senario his real, very involved dad got called daddy joe. His stepfather was an asshole (luckily out of his life now) but i think encouraging things like this especially so early in a relationship is a sign of a want to appear like the perfect family. I may be biased because of my experience with it.

Dad. He's been more of one than the deadbeat ever has.

DS calls him by his name but when he's talking to someone else he'll refer to him as his Dad, eg "I'll just go and ask my Dad".

I call mine by his name, my mum calls hers dad. I don't think there is a right or wrong here, it's very much an individual decision

Mine call him by his name as they were adults when we met but now their children have come along they and the children call him grandad

DSD calls me and her stepdad by our names

His name but with "dad" added on the beginning of it. I.e if he was called Andy (he's not) it would be 'Dandy'. Sometimes his name too.

DSS calls his mum's boyfriend by his name, as he calls me by mine.
He called his mum's previous boyfriend "dada fred", which was a hell of a kick in the teeth to DH.
Ironically, now new boyfriend is in the picture, we've unanimously agreed dada fred was preferable despite the name 😂