Should I encourage my daughter to call her stepfather Dad when he says it would mean a lot?
Parenting"Mark already answers when I call him Mark," my eight-year-old said after her grandmother prompted her to say Dad.
My husband has lived with us for two years. He does school runs, remembers the library day and has a good relationship with her. Her father is also involved in her life. We never agreed that she would use a different title after the wedding.
Mark told me privately that he would love to hear Dad, although he hasn't asked her himself. I repeated that to my mother, who turned it into encouragement at dinner. My daughter asked whether Mark would be sad whenever she said his name.
I wanted to recognize his place in the family. I may have made a title sound like the payment for the care he gives. How would you discuss his feelings with him and stop the dinner-table prompting without describing their relationship as less important because she uses his name?