Very articulate 2 year old keeps saying ‘I want my own daddy’
My girl has always been partial to men, seems fascinated by them and will often start chats with random men we see in public and has a preference for male members of the family.
She used to shout daddy every time we saw a man collecting their child from nursery (or in the street or on a train) so I corrected and now she says ‘hello man look at me man what am I doin man)
Anyway yesterday the nursery worker says, very sombrely, she wants to bring something to my attention and it’s that my daughter has been saying she wants her own daddy a lot recently. Then on queue my girl starts saying she wants her own daddy and doesn’t stop the whole walk home.
The nursery know the situation and I’ve asked them to just tell my daughter she ‘doesn’t have a daddy’ in a normal tone when she asks these sorts of questions to normalise it.
We have the smbc books and I tell her the reason she doesn’t have a daddy is because she has a mummy who wanted her too much but not sure how else to help her understand and be proud of her roots at this young age.
Have others experienced similar? Any helpful tips or tricks out there?