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    Calling Step-Grandparent by First Name

    @funemma He was out of school in a day treatment center for all of 6th grade and currently has 3-4 hours or so of therapy / skills work per week. My niece "graduated" from weekly therapy to biweekly therapy and took a bit of a break, but she asked to start again so we are doing that. That's...
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    Calling Step-Grandparent by First Name

    @funemma He called him Grandpa when he was little as well, I think it was just in the last couple years with his parents, maybe less, that his mother/parents started intervening. The issue isn't feeling disloyal to his parents. Honestly, he's been doing a decent job at combatting what he's...
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    Calling Step-Grandparent by First Name

    @drriversong In this case that he's been his grandfather his entire life, and he's known him his entire life and has called him Grandpa in the past, I think it's more like calling his biological grandmother by her first name, which he doesn't do. It's impersonal and exclusionary.
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    Calling Step-Grandparent by First Name

    I (22M) have had full legal guardianship of my 13 year old nephew for a bit over 2 years now, for reasons of abuse and neglect. My father (step in legal terms) has been in my life since I was 7 or 8, and therefore has been in my family longer than my 13 year old nephew. However, he refuses to...
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