Mommy or mama? What do you want to be called and why?

[Anonymous]

Love you 17:26. Just gotta shove in some controversy.

Anyhow, my 4.5 yr old alternates b/t Mom and Mama. My 1 yr old says "Muh."

[Anonymous]

I am called Mother, Mom, Mommy and Mama. The kids just choose what they want to call me and when. As long as they don't call me by my first name, or Ma, I really don't mind what they call me.

[Anonymous]

My 15 month old calls me "Maaaa" think of an Italian on the Sopranos. It is too funny. Older brotehr said mama until he was capable of 'mommy'. I prefer 'mommy'-- i do associate 'mama' with more rural, less educated, etc..can't say why- but I do. 'Mom' when they get older will be just fine. "Mother' from boys for some reasons sounds perverted to me.

[Anonymous]

DD always called me mama. Then, a few weeks ago, right as she was turning 5, she started to call me mommy. I'm fine either way, but the change is a bit jarring. Reminds me how half the people in my life call me by my childhood nickname, and the other half, who met me as an adult, call me by my given name. And it's very weird when someone in one group decides to jump over to the other group and call me by the name they've never used before!

[Anonymous]

I am both "mama" and "mommy", depending on the day. My poor 20-month DD is still confused by the three languages we speak to her

[Anonymous]

Mommy or mom. Hopefully never mama. If my child called me 'mama' I'd imagine I was on a farm in Louisiana and missing teeth. Sorry, not to knock Louisiana, it's a beautiful state certainly. But thats just my impression of people whose children call them mama.

[Anonymous]

I would so much rather be called Mama on a farm in Louisiana than to have to deal with some of you awful DCUM snobs. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would so much rather be called Mama on a farm in Louisiana than to have to deal with some of you awful DCUM snobs. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

My children were all adopted internationally. In their countries, Momma was the term of endearment for the mom. For that reason, I love being called Momma.

[Anonymous]

Big Mama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would so much rather be called Mama on a farm in Louisiana than to have to deal with some of you awful DCUM snobs. Seriously.

It may be snobbish, but it's absolutely true. And please don't get me started on Southern adults -- especially men -- who call their fathers "Daddy."

[Anonymous]

Lately my kids have taken to calling me "mama moo" and "mama moose" and then, the very endearing, "mamoose".

I am NOT liking this turn of events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would so much rather be called Mama on a farm in Louisiana than to have to deal with some of you awful DCUM snobs. Seriously.

If you are referring to my post, where I was talking about big, backward, country women, I wasn't trying to be snobby. It was not a pretty childhood neighborhood, with lots of abuse in most houses, drunk fathers and harsh mothers, neighborhood kids forced to go pick young tree limbs to strip of leaves and get whipped with -- those types of things. Not good memories. And that's what I associate the name "Mama" with.

[Anonymous]

I don't have a preference, but my just turned 2 year old sticks to Mommy most of the time. Every evening though he will come to me with his sippy and call me Mama and then insist on laying in my lap like a baby to drink his milk.

[Anonymous]

I call my father Daddy and my mother Mama and I would still rather be toothless in the south than have to spend a minute in real life with some of you. Your parents, whatever you call them, did not teach you any manners.