One of my daughters recently wrote down the first name and middle and last initials of herself, her siblings, and her mother and me, then taped the sheet to our living room wall. The entries for herself and her siblings followed the script exactly. Her mother she listed as “Mom,” me as “Dad,” and our middle initials encountered some difficulty. Do “Mom” and “Dad” belong in a list of names? Of course. That is what she calls us; to her, that is who we are. She knows