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Suggestions wanted: what should they call us?
My husband and I are considering a placement of two siblings, age 17 months and 3 yrs. They are on track to reunite with a mother who is working her plan; the home that they are currently in "gave notice" as soon as they realized that they would probably be reunited because they "didn't want to get too attached". This is what we have been told by the social worker.
I am wondering what these kids should call us. They're very young and might naturally want to call us "mom" and "dad" or something like that, but I'm uneasy with that because I'm afraid it would confuse them, since they will be going back to their bio-mom.
At the same time, I think it would feel really odd to me to have a child for whom I was acting as primary caregiver call me by my first name. Does anyone have suggestions for things that they could call us?
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