Well, the thing with family members, maybe I should have mentioned this—he can’t remember family members. He knows his grandma and grandpa and his cousin (one of his best friends) but other than that, he doesn’t remember any family members. My wife’s brother, his uncle, he will commonly call his ‘brother’ or even his ‘grandpa’. We see them all the time and let him know, ‘no that’s not your brother. That’s your uncle. It’s your mom’s brother.’ I don’t look too much into it. Kids are too preoccupied in their own minds to remember labels.

He has been bullied in the past (pre-covid). Unsurprisingly, it’s usually been do you his maturity level. Kids are ruthless and they’re so dead set on growing up. So when people at school hear a kid calling his mom ‘mommy’ and showing endless affection, they make fun of him for ‘being a baby’. This is one reason that we discussed this with him—you can still be affectionate and love your mom, but you’ve got to control it, if for no other reason than simply, kids are mean. I do suspect underlying anger or resentment (mostly towards me), which is something we will be talking to the therapist about.