Refering to myself in the third-person
As a sign of respect to oneself, you wouldn't refer to yourself as "me" or "I" or "Leonard" (if your name is Leonard, like me) in front of your children. Instead it would be "Daddy" (capital D), "Mummy" (capital M), "Your Boss" (capital Y and B) or even "Your Worst Nightmare" (capital Y, W and N).
I'm not sure how this came about, but it's different in Western societies where kids call their parents "Jack" or "Mary" or Dude or Hey Old Man.
In our home, Nigel refers himself to Amber as "Ge-Ge" (older brother) as he was mature enough to bestow the title upon himself when she was born. Shannon also constantly calls him "Ge-Ge" too.
Shannon has trouble with Amber. Try as she might, Amber just refuses to call her (or maybe she just forgets) Jie-Jie but keeps referring to her as Shannon - my gosh! What does it take to get some respect around here! Trouble is Nigel calls her "Shannon" and not "Mei-Mei" (younger sister), which is just as well, as we don't want Amber calling Shannon "Mei-Mei".
Amber is just confused. We have people (like Nigel and Gabriel) telling her "Shannon did this and that" and then others correcting her saying "Jie-Jie, not Shannon". In addition, nobody calls her Mei-Mei at all, absolutely no-one. Bottom-line, besides Nigel and the older folks, everyone else is on a first-name basis.
I'm not sure how this came about, but it's different in Western societies where kids call their parents "Jack" or "Mary" or Dude or Hey Old Man.
In our home, Nigel refers himself to Amber as "Ge-Ge" (older brother) as he was mature enough to bestow the title upon himself when she was born. Shannon also constantly calls him "Ge-Ge" too.
Shannon has trouble with Amber. Try as she might, Amber just refuses to call her (or maybe she just forgets) Jie-Jie but keeps referring to her as Shannon - my gosh! What does it take to get some respect around here! Trouble is Nigel calls her "Shannon" and not "Mei-Mei" (younger sister), which is just as well, as we don't want Amber calling Shannon "Mei-Mei".
Amber is just confused. We have people (like Nigel and Gabriel) telling her "Shannon did this and that" and then others correcting her saying "Jie-Jie, not Shannon". In addition, nobody calls her Mei-Mei at all, absolutely no-one. Bottom-line, besides Nigel and the older folks, everyone else is on a first-name basis.