So I’m having this disagreement with my mom. Despite the fact that there are 15 years between me and my youngest brother, she keeps getting our names wrong. I don’t mean that she really thinks I’m him and he’s me - I just mean that when she starts a conversation with me, she’ll at times call his name: “Hey Paul, I mean Dan …”
She claims that her mom did this, too. My grandmother had five kids - not a lot, actually - and my mom claims when she wanted one of the kids, she’d call each of their names until she got the right one.
And! And she claims - and this is a direct quote - that “all mothers” do this.
Hogwash!
Then she defied me to ask my online friends about it. Poll them, she said. Go right ahead, she said, confident she’d be vindicated.
So, you parents of more than one child - do you accidentally call one child by the other child’s name?
And those of you with no kids, or only one kid - did your parents ever do this with you?