Oshi Shikigami I must confess that it also happens to me ! I often call my granddaughter by my daughter's name. It must be because seeing my granddaughter grow draws me 30 years back in time and my memory actually sees my daughter !
I read in a psychological research blog by knowing Dr.'s that it means you are loved if called by anothers name by your parents, and that you love the people that you are mixing the names up with. The mind, they say tends to groupe people we care about in one compartment, and when trying to recall quickly they tumble out over each other. I thought that was rather good to know, seeing as I have done that with my children endless times.
That made me smile!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Me too +Mike Perry.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely true story: There were many times, (when I was a child) when my mother was upset about something, or other; that she would call any or all of us kids, by the wrong name, and on a few occasions, the name of one of our cats!
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Absolutely true story: There were many times, (when I was a child) when my mother was upset about something, or other; that she would call any or all of us kids, by the wrong name, and on a few occasions, the name of one of our cats!
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Oshi Shikigami
ReplyDeleteI must confess that it also happens to me ! I often call my granddaughter by my daughter's name. It must be because seeing my granddaughter grow draws me 30 years back in time and my memory actually sees my daughter !
I read in a psychological research blog by knowing Dr.'s that it means you are loved if called by anothers name by your parents, and that you love the people that you are mixing the names up with.
ReplyDeleteThe mind, they say tends to groupe people we care about in one compartment, and when trying to recall quickly they tumble out over each other.
I thought that was rather good to know, seeing as I have done that with my children endless times.
Laurent Truillet and Ann Kennedy, I agree. But Ann, does that still apply to pets? ;-)
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