azurecrayon wrote:
wow, so you want to weigh in on whether or not i should breastfeed and for how long? or maybe tell me if i should have my sons circumcised or not?
my 14 yr old still uses mommy and daddy. quite natural since he has 7 and 4 yr old younger siblings that still use them. over years of parenting, and years of referring to each other as mommy and daddy, we call each other that, too. it wasnt an intentional change, but over a decade of using a nickname tends to make it stick.
one of my pet peeves is people who try to tell me how to parent and raise my children. especially if they have never been there themselves. it annoys me. so i expect you to stop.
did it work?
I agree! I don't think that anyone has the right to dictate to me what my son feels comfortable calling myself or my partner as a term of endearment, just as I don't have the right to push my ideas onto others. Personally, there are plenty of things in this world that annoy the hell out of me, but that doesn't mean that I have the right to tell someone to stop doing them...to each their own, and as long as they are not harming anyone else, what the hell difference does it make? I have been out lots of times and heard things that grate on my nerves and make me grit my teeth, but I just try to ignore them the best I can, because after all, I only have control over my own actions.
OP, I can respect your opinion and that this is irritating for u, but if u don't like what my son calls me, then that's a personal problem - yours, not mine.