Danny has been calling me "Mom"for the past few days. I have been trying to discourage it and encourage "mama" but no luck. I'm "mom"
Sometimes my kids call me "mom" and I always say "you're still too young to be calling me that! I'm your mommy!"
Sky calls me dada, unless shes whining, hurting, or i say "Nooo, you silly, say mama~mama is my name" (or something to that effect) i think dada rolls off the tounge easier.....
I know how you feel...If baby starts calling me anything other than Momma, I might be upset...but then again, if he's huggin you, kissing you, and still being a sweet and loving little thing, then I think you're fine.
Count your blessings that you get "mom"! My youngest calls me by my first name. I don't think one should get hung up on what their kids call them...as long as their is love, support, and security. That's all that's needed in a family.
I know!!!! I just love when he says "mama"!!! He usd to call his dad "papa" but not he calls him by his first name. He's too little to be so grown up! Plus, he wasn't vocal until about 6 months ago, so I've only been mama for 6 months!!!
I lived and helped my sister raise my nephews from birth, now they are 5 and almost 7 and its hard to cope that they are that age ... But They call me momma # 2 ha ha its cute i say no no i'm Auntie Teri silly goose nooooooooo you're Mommy Nuuuuuuuummmmmmmbbbber 2 ha ha at that age they come up with the silliest things..
i have a step daughter ...we have her every other wknd, and Fri night I said time for bed Chum, she said okey dokey mom ... shes never called me that before that was really heart touching consifering she has her biological mother and i would never ever take that away from her . i'm just Teri. I found that cute. until shes ready to call me mom its Teri
I'm a teenager, and I call my mom any of these 4 things: "Mom, Ma, Mama, or Mum." But I started calling her Mama when I was like...13. And it stuck with me. She doesn't mind it so much anymore. I say "MA!!!" when I call her from another room, Lol.
my little one calls me "Mommy-Mom" It makes me feel all warm and squishy inside. I thought I'd die the first time my older child (she's only five years old) called me "Mother!" in that same exasperated tone of voice I always used when I was a teenager!!
this thread made me giggle because when I walked into homecare thisafternoon my little one came runnng up yelling "stephanie, it's my stephanie" Spins me out a bit but then I figure that they hear so many other people calling you by your name that they just soak it in, and it is an abberation as normally it's mum (yup none of those rounded o sounds here! ) funnily enough when she is attempting to be funny or take the piss out of me (at a three and a half level of taking the piss that is) then out comes mumma, she knows it makes me cringe and combines it with reverting to babytalk which she knows just shits me and so specially saves it for use at these times.
Luckily, we have kept Mama so far here with my son. I really hope he will continue forever. But, he all of a sudden started using Daddy or Dad. He has always called his father "Baba" that is Turkish for father and we have loved it. I really don't even know where he got it, I guess TV. I'm hoping it is just a phase and he will go back to Baba soon.
My dh really likes to be called "Papa." He doesn't like "Dada" but, Sage, being younger than the other kids, heard them calling him "Daddy" and sometimes calls him "Papa" and sometimes calls him "Daddy." When she was small, it was like "DAH-YEE!" I get Mama, Mommy, Mom, Mother (of course, exasperated, whether from a toddler or a teenager) MA! and everything inbetween. A few of the kids tried my first name a few times (probably from hearing Bear say it) but, I didn't go for it. If Mama doesn't mind, it doesn't bother me at all. A few of my freind's kids call them by their first names. It was all the rage in the late 60s, early 70s, when I was a kid. (remember Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show......nobody?........anyway)
My neighbours kids who are a 13 and about 8 call their mum by her first name and at first it really stuck out to me, I think because when I was growing up it was mum and dad and all their friends were mr and mrs "whatever" because they were all teachers with my dad so I figure my parents thought it would be easier for us when we eventually were at school with them (small town!! ) anyhow it makes them laugh nowadays when sometimes my childhood habit still kicks in and I revert to the mr and mrs "whatever". They don't mind really and I think that there is almost some sentimentality attached to it now! I just try and judge what people feel comfortable with and what is situation appropiate. Funny really because it is probably another case where you could say the label doesn't really matter and the quality of the relationship is far more important!
