In the last week or two, I’ve been encouraging Elliot to call me Daddy or Papa.
It’s an amazing feeling to hear him call me that. It feels different than Aki. At first, it didn’t matter much. I just wanted it. Now it feels substantially different, a constant reminder of our precious relationship.
I’ve had to correct him almost non-stop and even ignore him when he calls, “Aki?”, but it has paid off.
When I picked him up from preschool yesterday, he immediately called me Daddy. He didn’t use Aki for a full day.
He seems to have chosen Daddy instead of Papa, so I’ll encourage that from now on.
Karolina won’t agree to help. She insisted that he call me Aki. I hope it’s not too confusing for Elliot, but so far He seems fine. It must help that we don’t live together anymore; I can’t imagine him using both names simultaneously if we were still a family.
