Calling by name

[MumOfTwoBoys]

My 6 y.o. suddenly started calling me by name instead of Mummy. May be it's OK but I am just a bit uncomfortable with it. Does it mean that he becomes more distant?

[Mamaduke]

I really don't think that it's a sign of him distancing himself from your relationship together...I think it's more that he hears others calling you by your name and as he's getting older is more assertive of what people are saying around him and maybe wants to be treated as a 'grown up'.
Jesse called me by my first name a few times and I told him,
"Everyone gets to call me by my name, but there are only 2 boys in the whole wide world who get to call me Mummy, and that's you and Lukey, that's it, no one else...isn't that special?"

[babylover111]

I can understand how it would feel uncomfortable for you but I dont think it means hes becoming distant. Does your partner call you by your first name? I think that sometimes if they call you by your real name infront of the kids that they think they should too? I dont know im a bit clueless too but I wouldnt take it as a bad sign sorry i cant be more help!

[zenifa]

I really don't think that it's a sign of him distancing himself from your relationship together...I think it's more that he hears others calling you by your name and as he's getting older is more assertive of what people are saying around him and maybe wants to be treated as a 'grown up'.
Jesse called me by my first name a few times and I told him,
"Everyone gets to call me by my name, but there are only 2 boys in the whole wide world who get to call me Mummy, and that's you and Lukey, that's it, no one else...isn't that special?"

Have to agree with MD and also I loved that last bit about only having 2 boys in the whole world that can call you mummy!! That is so sweet!!

Just wanted to say, a friend of mine who returned to OZ recently with his German partner and their two young children, the 2yo called his parents by their first name and it did sound strange to my ears.....but I guess it depends on what your comfortable with. If you dont' mind being called by your first name fine, otherwise you can always use MD's quote, so they know that calling you mummy is far more special than by your first name.

[~Danni~]

we have afriends with a 1 and a half year old that calls his mum and dad by threre first names, he heard others do it and got a positive reaction (laughs) and now they can't gte him to stop it, when he wants somthing badly he will say mummy or daddy:laughing:

I also had a friend at school who called her parents by there first name and that was fine in there householed...(buit weird for me but different strokes...)

our kids are just gonna think everyone is called Dan if they try call me or DF by our first name:rolleyes:

[Mum&bubs]

I know what it feels like. When Summer was around 14 months she started calling me 'KRISSY' everyone thought it was so funny & cute but it did actually hurt me inside because all I wanted was to be called 'mummy'. I think its just because they hear everyone else say it & its got nothing to do with the bond at all. He'll snap out of it soon (hopefully!) just keep reminding him that you are M-U-M and to address you as only that ;)