Too easy! Just change it to "dude". Hey dude. 'Sup Dude? Dude, grab me the board, please! It's cool, and it'll stick, and it's pretty darn similar to what it was.

he's just at that age .. anything u do has the potential to embarrass him!! maybe just try not to do it around his friends. ur not losing ur "little doo" .. he'll always be ur baby, but he's growing up!!

Well, Loretta Lynn's husband was known as Doolittle.

Call him Dan. Dan the Man.

You can call him Doo in private, but with his friends you should call him by his real name. Kids at that age can be mean, they might tease him for it.

I think you should be charged for child abuse. You call him Doo? why not get another one, then you can calll them Doo Doo, or just Crap for short? If you gave him a real name, then use it. save the cute names for pets.

dude, that is bad. I almost agree with cobber. even the non-short version would be embaressing. might as well be calling him "mommies little angel" it is fine for 3 year olds but not much older. I would wager he has been embaressed by that name for atleast 5 years. he isn't your "little doo" he is a young man and needs a more grown up name, wether it be his name or as jester said "dude". something he can actualy tell people to call him. can you imagine him saying "my name is (insert name here) but people call me doodle dandy" my mom refuses to stop calling me tommy, since I have gone by thomas more than 3/4 of my life I consider it disrespectful. if such a normal variant of my name is rude, how rude do you think he considers a pomeranian name? let him choose what you call him. you can not respect the young man he is becomming while seeing him as your baby waby. just because he is not your "doodle dandy" any more does not mean he is not your loving son.

Well, at 12, he is growing up, and trying to figure out how. So I would drop the whole Doodle Dandy thing, and just stick with Doo. It doesn't sound as "little kid" as the the former. Also, I would compromise by not calling him this in front of his friends, or at least trying not to. If it slips out occcasionally, it should not be too big a deal, and not too many kids would know what it meant anyway. I am sure a lot of his friends have nicknames for their kids, too. So explain this to him, and also that nicknames are part of belonging to a family. So if you make it "Johnny" or whatever when he's with his friends, and Doo any other time, he should be more at ease with it. This worked for me with my daughter, We agreed that she would be Bug at home, but Jessi when we were in public. I called her Jessi Bug from the time she was a baby, and she started chaffing about it around age 11 or 12.I explained that her nickname was a special thing that was just for she and I, and helped me keep her close. So, we made up a few questions that she could casually ask whenever she needed to point out to me that I was slipping. If I goofed up, she would ask Hey Mom, What WAS the best thing before sliced bread? or What would chairs look like if our knees bent the other way? This way she could call me on my slip up, without making a big deal of it. (I explained that if she freaked out and said God, Mom, don't call me that, it would call more attention to it and her friends would tease her about it more.) Our questions gave her away to get my attention, and me a little room for error. Our questions changed over time, and it has become a family thing. If anybody says something embarrassing or anything, one of those questions just pops out and the subject automatically changes. Usually surrounded by laughter. Of course, once I slipped up more than once in front of her friends , after about the 3rd "Hey Bug?" she calmly raised an eyebrow and replied "Yes, Mumzilla?" Point was taken! But you and your son should be able to talk it over and come up with a compromise that works for both of you. Good Luck

You should first start by calling him by his real name in public. At home little by little you should stop yourself from calling him that. Make benchmarks Monday try to call him it 40 times (or however many times you call him it) or less. Each day call him it ine less time, or go slower if you want.