Kid's names

I do it all the time, and it is really shameful as I only have two daughters. I only do that to my daughters though, calling the older one by the younger one's name and vice versa. They don't like it when I make a mistake like that. My mother-in-law does it too. Calling my husband his brother's name and vice versa. Here's a thought: could it be that it shows how equal we love them?

I'm an only child and my mom still gets my name wrong sometimes lol. She'll either call me by the dogs' names or by her youngest sister's name and it's actually pretty funny. My boyfriend sometimes messes up too...but luckily he's never called me by an ex's name. He'll usually start to say the name of his sister since our names have the same first letter and make the same sound. Most of the time he'll catch it before the whole name comes out but I still get annoyed because how could he get me confused with his sister lol?

My children still remember me doing it when they were young. Even though there was almost 3 years difference in their ages they were almost the same size, hair color, etc. For many years, if I was behind them, I couldn't tell which one I was talking to, so many times they were called by the wrong one. I also used to say "which ever one of you did this, you better take responsibility for it(and then whatever the consequence for it was) if you don't and I learn which one of you did it." They say I even did it after they got big enough to tell them apart. They knew it wasn't disrespectful of them, just mom's name recall problem. In fact today, they will say, "Which one of us am I today?" Funny to them now and they are in their forties. I've never been good with names. I may know people from face, but I have a hard time remembering names unless I see them daily. I've tried memory classes for it and it doesn't help. Thanks for the discussion!

For me it honestly depends on just how frustrated the kids get me. Most of the time it is easy for me to keep their names straight, especially considering that one of them is a girl and the other is a boy. However, there are times that one of them starts doing something that really gets on my nerves and when that happens, I really do have a tendency of calling them by the wrong name. When this happens, I usually just resort to saying, "Whoever you are stop it!".

Maybe you should name your daughter or son a cute common name like for example, Ana. In that way you won't forget or be confused in calling their names. Also when it comes to your pets, I would suggest that you make it unique. Something like for animals only.

haahaha.... hi there....i really can relate much on that. for my mom does that very often, if she will call our elder sister, she can utter really the name of us all until she can say my elder sister's name..haha. this is maybe the result of having much kids in the family.

I usually keep my kids and my sister's kids names right. On the rare occasion I call my son my dogs name. That is so funny so I have a good laugh. My mom often calls me by my sister's name by mistake. She can get people's names mixed up together. My sisters family are known as the lucky family. Lee Lee Lucky is my older niece's nickname and Bree Bree Lucky is my younger niece's nickname. My dogs are called Secret and Magic.

My grandfather does this. No matter who he is talking to, he lists everybody's names, starting with his sisters', in the same order every time. My mother is doing the same thing now, and I'm sure I'll be doing it in the future.

Hi ShyBear, I have to say that I am guilty of that...I only have a son and a daughter and 2 grandsons...But even at only those 4 names I do call them each others names... And don't even get me stated about my nieces down south ,You know how they give all their children the same name just a letter off or something...well thats my family...I don't know one from the other as far as name....So I don't perpetrate....I don't know and I admit it...I can't remember and don't expect me to...I will tell them in a minute if they had normal names I would not have that problem... But little do they know...I would still have the same problem... LOL LOL LOL

Maybe they are old enough to forget some of their name and thinking that the other child.Or you have same face with her thats why she called you that.also some loves to joke and calling you in other name.

My dad always has done that, he always calls me by my sisters names and then corrects himself. I always thought it was down to his age but I now do it with my kid's lol, so i guess age has nothing to do with it.