What should kids call their step-parents?

[Kain99]

Considering "HIS" viewpoint... The forcing of the Daddy issue is shiat! Mom knows it and so does Step Daddy! It's all a part of the hate game. " How can I hurt you just a little bit more?" Biatches do this all the time.

 

[tastycakes]

Originally posted by Nickel
We see his point, we're just broadening the topic. Some of us have been children in similar situations, we are giving our viewpoints. Some of us have children that are going through similar situations...again, we're giving our viewpoints. My son doesn't know his father, probably never will. By your standards, should he not be allowed to call another man "daddy", even though that man treats him like his own son, simply because it wasn't his sperm that helped make the baby?

Actually I have been in that situation and hated being put in it. I have no problem with children calling another person by any title (I have a child of my own who calls her step-father by his first name: her choice) but that doesn't give anyone the right to just choose for the child what they should have to call a step parent. I can't stand my childs father but I feel she will learn all on her own who is the man that has been there for her and the one who is not. I realize that everyone is trying to give their viewpoint but not too many are really giving their thoughts on forcing a child to have to call someone else by a title of a parent. A very different situation than a child calling someone "mom" or "dad" when there is an absent parent.

 

[stuckinsomd]

i called my step mother by her first name...and still do... she wasnt my mother and did not give birth to me. my father never expected any different. Plus i think he new my momma had a legal gun and would shoot his butt

 

[stuckinsomd]

i agree

 

[vraiblonde]

i called my step mother by her first name...and still do... she wasnt my mother and did not give birth to me. my father never expected any different. Plus i think he new my momma had a legal gun and would shoot his butt

i agree

You should leave this to the professionals.

 

[Ken King]

You should leave this to the professionals.

 

[RoseRed]

You should leave this to the professionals.

 

[jazz lady]

You should leave this to the professionals.

So busted...

 

[Tinkerbell]

i called my step mother by her first name...and still do... she wasnt my mother and did not give birth to me. my father never expected any different. Plus i think he new my momma had a legal gun and would shoot his butt

You realize, of course, that this thread was started a year ago? I'm sure the guy has long since decided what to do!

 

[kelleymauck]

I myself am a step-parent and I also have a step-mom and a step-dad. My step-daughter calls me by my first name. And she also has a step-dad that she calls dad. Hubby had an issue with it at first but now it doesn't matter at all. Her step-dad is a great guy and hubby knows that so he's cool with that. I think it should be up to the kids to decided what they should call their step-parents. Neither one of mine were like parent figures to me so I never called them mom or dad.

 

[geminideb]

Moon5leg

My kids call my husband by his first name, but they are all pretty much grown. I agree with what everyone else here has said - don't play her game. And don't worry - your kids know who their "real" dad is, and they know who loves them.