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It’s weird to teach your child your name instead of mum or mummy ( except step parents )
Why? Why is it nuts? Pleas explain to meWow now that’s just bleeping nuts
Can you explain why it’s weird? I honestly think it’s more weird that you all find it weird lol I understand that it’s not the norm, but I would genuinely love for somebody to explain to me what is wrong with this and why it is weird? Please
Pob by name Pob by nature eh. 
Well that's terrifying
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You’re not making sense? Why would you want your child calling you by name? You’re the weird one
I'd feel like I was talking to someone else's kid if I was teaching them to say my actual name. It's your kid, you're Mumma! It's a bit 'friends' vibes.
Definitely
I’m making perfect sense? Please tell me where I haven’t made sense?! Also everybody is saying this is weird and I am politely asking why they think it’s weird and nobody is answering me? Lol the fact I call my mum by her first name and anybody else who choices to do so, is a non issue. Everything else you’ve pointed out on this thread are all valid/worrying reasons why she may need extra help/support to parent her son. But him calling them by their first name isn’t one in my eyes.
That’s fair enough. I respect your opinion
and appreciate that you haven’t just told me I’m weird! I get how people would feel this way. It’s really just the norm for me and I don’t feel that way because I’m so used to it. I have to add I give my son a choice or I suppose if he calls me by my first name I don’t correct him as such. But 90% of the time he calls me mum. I’m happy with whatever he wants as long as he’s respectful about it lol
Just because you do something and think it’s the norm doesn’t mean it is. It is not the norm for people to call their parents by their first name, sorry. You do you and all that but it’s not normal and you can’t expect everyone else to agree that it is.I’m making perfect sense? Please tell me where I haven’t made sense?! Also everybody is saying this is weird and I am politely asking why they think it’s weird and nobody is answering me? Lol the fact I call my mum by her first name and anybody else who choices to do so, is a non issue. Everything else you’ve pointed out on this thread are all valid/worrying reasons why she may need extra help/support to parent her son. But him calling them by their first name isn’t one in my eyes.
That’s fair enough. I respect your opinion
Okay no problem. I just wanted peoples polite opinions on why they think it’s weird. I haven’t been rude to anybody
I think it's an honour to have my child call me mummy, I'm their mummy, I'm not their friend or their mate ..I'm their mummy. I personally find it quite sad that for shits and giggles she's encouraging Noah to call his daddy by his name and yet she's quite happy to teach him to call a card board cutout of a dead person Grandad ? It's personal choice but personally I find it quite sad that you wouldn't want your child to call you mummy or daddy.
I reckon it’s a respect thing
She’s defo tapped in the head
Weird AF in my opinion but that alone does not equate to bad parenting. It’s just everything else she does
I think most people, myself included find it an absolute joy to hear you child call you mummy or daddy. Mines 3 and it still warms my heart to hear ‘mammy’. It’s a word nobody else calls me, only your child. My friends call me by my name, my colleagues, my relatives… only my son calls me mammy.
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I don’t think it’s a sign of a bad parent but it’s unusual and to most people it sounds odd to hear a toddler calling their parents by their names. Not as unusual when they’re older and choose how they want to address them
I’m 39 and I’d never dream of calling my mum by her first name. I know the exact look she’d give me if I did 🥹. It’s a respect thing, also could be how you’re brought up too? Each to their own but it’s a definite no-no in my family and extended family.
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