[trishalishous]

DD has done this, but mainly its just a mix up.
she is currently calling us by our first names, which is kinda of cute. (shes nearly 2)

[Doodalicious]

The same thing happened to me when I picked my 15mth old up from daycare the other day lol. He rarely says Mum or mummy and when I try to coax him to say it he just says Dadda back to me and laughs... it has become some kind of joke with him. Today he said the dog's name but yet he only occasionally says Mummy

I'm pretty sure now that he's trying to tease me. He did it again when I picked him up yesterday and I said "I'm not Daddy! Who am I?" and he gave me a massive grin and said "Nanna!". Hil-ar-i-ous my little man!

[Leha]

Yes my 20 mth old DS does this. We just correct him like the PP said. It's a bit annoying as my Older DD has picked up on it and now deliberately calls me daddy just to be funny.

[Doodalicious]

Yes my 20 mth old DS does this. We just correct him like the PP said. It's a bit annoying as my Older DD has picked up on it and now deliberately calls me daddy just to be funny.

..and I'm glad to see I'm not the only mum who doesn't like it! My husband thinks it's super funny - I bet he wouldn't like it if he was getting called "mummy" all the time!

[Angelina Balleri...]

DS used to do this too.

He also has a tendency to call all random women 'mummy' and men 'daddy'. I think he's freaked a few men out when we've been out and about

This post has been edited by Angelina Ballerina: 27/04/2012, 09:54 AM

[mombasa]

My first used to do this, I always just thought it was because she was overwhelmed with all the people she needed to remember, Mum, Dad, Nan, Pop, Aunty, Uncle etc wasn't all the time though and only lasted a few months. DD2 who is 3 will call DH Dad, but always refers to him as a 'good girl' for some reason she can't make the connection to him being a boy! I find it funny, DH not as much

[Lokum]

In most cases, it's how they learn what a word means.

DS learned dog, so he'd see a dog and say 'dog.' Then he started calling all 4-legged furry animals 'dog' - cats, cows, horses, sheep - everything was 'dog.'

We'd correct him, and say what the animal really was, and also get really excited and agree when it WAS a dog.

See, they don't know how far the meaning of a word stretches. Is ALL crockery a bowl? Are all round rubber things balls, or only the green one in my house?

You called that thing banana, but you called all the other stuff 'food.' Is banana food? Is food banana? So they have to try out how far the word goes.

My DH is called Baba. For a while, all the people DS loved were called Baba - eventually he figured out that I'm Mama and DH is Baba. But then all men were Baba, and all women were Mama.

He now, excitingly, knows that there's only one 'Baba,' but all the others are 'men,' and so he shouts 'man, man,' sometimes right in the face of the checkout boy.

He still doesn't know woman, so most women are 'Mama.' All kids up to 15 are 'baby,' and then they become 'man' or 'Mama.'

I find it fascinating to see the world through his eyes as he tries to figure this stuff out, and tries out his words in different contexts to see if they'll work.

[Rach42]

LOL I have to reply because I still get this from my DS and he's 6! It's because he spends a week with his dad and then when he comes back to me he is just in the habit of saying "daddy" all the time. We just laugh and he corrects himself.