Child calling you by your first name

I'm not huge on authority, but I would like to be called "Mom" or some variation thereof for more than 2 years! Jackson has recently taken to calling me "Erin" and I am not sure how to handle it. It all started when my parents came to visit and they were calling me Erin, as well as my DP (who sometimes calls me Erin, sometimes "Mommy" when in front of the kids). The kids caught on but only Jackson started following suit. My parents left awhile ago, but I am still being called Erin. I do respond to it if he's calling me but I don't make a big deal out of the fact that he's calling me Erin instead of Mommy.

Any thoughts? TIA!

 

When the girls are being funny and call me or DH by our first names, we joke and say "Hey thats mommy/daddy to you!" :laughing:

 

My kids call me Alden every once in a while, mostly to be silly but also just to see how I'll respond. I just try to act silly back and say "To you I'm Mommy!" They are also just playing with the idea that people can have more than one name depending on who's talking to them. I'm actually impressed that your DS even realizes, at his age, that Erin and Mommy are the same person!

 

WHen I call my DH Kyle my DD does also. He usually doesn't answer to it and I remind them to call him dad and they usually do. It might be worth trying not responding and having your DH remind them or you could say do you want mom, then you better ask for you mom. I bet it is a phrase they will get past but I think joking about it could help.

 

we've made sure that the girls know all our first names in case they get lost. i just don't give them any attention when they call me by name

 

every once in a while if I'm yelling across the house for Tony, Abby will copy me and yell "TOOONNNNYYYY" too - and she recently discovered that "Tony" and "Daddy" are the same person...Ian also calls my dad "Al" every once in a while too to be funny - and we just tell him thats Grandpa...

my mom was Anj (short for Andrea) when I was a kid (thats what my dad calls her)....

 

I would try to get your DP on the same page in calling you mommy... I would also just gently correct the child when they use your 'real' name. On a side note, what do they call your DP? Do they call by real name too?

 

I correct them with "it's Mommy to you, mister". It was pretty frequent when they first discovered it and now they hardly ever call me by my first name. The newness will wear off.

ETA: I respectfully disagree with having your partner call you "mommy". My husband doesn't call me "mommy" and I would find it weird if he did. If he's talking to them about me, he will refer to me as "mommy" but that's as far as it goes. They are able to understand the difference.

 

I have to agree with Debi on both parts. I think I would say something to that affect......"It's mommy to you mister". I think if you make a big deal out of it then it will become a bigger issue than it might have been.

Also, I wouldn't expect or want my DH to call me mommy.....rather just refer to me as mommy. Me, personally, that is just one of those things that I think is strange. I am not his mommy, so please don't call me that.

 

Yours are a little younger than mine, and I'm not sure that mine grasp this yet, but every now and then J will call DH by his first name (usually after hearing me use it.) So I've tried telling him that only he and his brother are lucky enough to call him "Daddy" and that's very special. Also after he's been doing this I will make a point for a day or two to call DH "Daddy" just to reinforce it and J will drop it pretty quickly.

 

Thanks for all of your suggestions and input, everyone!

They call DP "Mama" and I'm usually/supposed to be "Mommy". That part is not confusing at all to them. Jackson doesn't really call DP by her first name but he does call me by mine. Jacob doesn't call me by my first name at all but he does call DP by her first name when he's in a joking mood because he thinks it's funny (must have gotten some kind of reaction at some point!). It seems like it's starting to subside with minimal attention, but I will address it calmly with Jack next time he does it.