Calling little girls "mama"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's normal in black or Latino communities to call children mama, mami, pop, or papi. I personally call my dd mama pretty much every day. It's only odd if you're not familiar with different cultures I guess.

This is more socioeconomic than race/ethnic. You rarely hear children called mama/papa among my middle to upper income hispanic and black friends (and I'm hispanic). i have, however, heard it among family members in lower socioeconomic classes.

This. My middle class Mexican-American mother would hit the roof if she heard me use that term of endearment with my kids. M'ja/o is okay.

[Anonymous]

I am from Argentina and still stay in touch with many of my friends from boarding school who are all upper-class and we all refer to our kids as mama/mami/mamita. Two are from Mexico City, on from Spain, one from Colombia, myself from Argentina and a Venezuelan/puerto rican

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's normal in black or Latino communities to call children mama, mami, pop, or papi. I personally call my dd mama pretty much every day. It's only odd if you're not familiar with different cultures I guess.

This is more socioeconomic than race/ethnic. You rarely hear children called mama/papa among my middle to upper income hispanic and black friends (and I'm hispanic). i have, however, heard it among family members in lower socioeconomic classes.

This. My middle class Mexican-American mother would hit the roof if she heard me use that term of endearment with my kids. M'ja/o is okay.

M'ja?

[Anonymous]

I've heard two people do this. Both white moms (I am a white mom).

1) an E3 type who I think was trying to be trendy. Or be gangster somehow. (I know, eye roll). The type of mlm person who actually made hundreds of thousands.

2) an L1 type who is very southern. One of the only people I know with a true southern accent. Blonde, chubby, cool mom. Really involved on the school board and very trendy.

Both were talking to their approx 5yo dds.

If you don't know what e3 & L1 are, see the thread in Finance.

[Anonymous]

I've never heard of a young girl being called mama.
Time to get out of my white, umc bubble I guess!

[Anonymous]

I call my DD "nana". It means granny in my culture. When she was born she was all wrinkled, bald and toothless like a very old person. She also needed diapers - like old people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I call my DD "nana". It means granny in my culture. When she was born she was all wrinkled, bald and toothless like a very old person. She also needed diapers - like old people.

How rare your daughter sounds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of a young girl being called mama.
Time to get out of my white, umc bubble I guess!

In this day and age, I find calling a 10, and 8 year old little Mamas horrible. So they are only good to grow up and be Mothers right? I had two girls, and they are feminists, believe me, they would not find the term appropriate. I could never see calling my nieces little Mama's. Maybe like a lot of things, this term needs to go, cultural term, or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of a young girl being called mama.
Time to get out of my white, umc bubble I guess!

In this day and age, I find calling a 10, and 8 year old little Mamas horrible. So they are only good to grow up and be Mothers right? I had two girls, and they are feminists, believe me, they would not find the term appropriate. I could never see calling my nieces little Mama's. Maybe like a lot of things, this term needs to go, cultural term, or not.

Thanks for digging up this thread to impart this knowledge. Do you realize it’s also common to call little boys “papa” or “papi”? Do you assume this means they’re only good to grow up and be fathers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's normal in black or Latino communities to call children mama, mami, pop, or papi. I personally call my dd mama pretty much every day. It's only odd if you're not familiar with different cultures I guess.

This is more socioeconomic than race/ethnic. You rarely hear children called mama/papa among my middle to upper income hispanic and black friends (and I'm hispanic). i have, however, heard it among family members in lower socioeconomic classes.

This. My middle class Mexican-American mother would hit the roof if she heard me use that term of endearment with my kids. M'ja/o is okay.

M'ja?

Well that's news to me!! - middle class Mexican mom.

[Anonymous]

It’s weird . . . The same as when they call their friends without kids mama.

[Anonymous]

I've heard li'l mama. I think it's cute.

[Anonymous]

What's up with white people from the US not doing this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of a young girl being called mama.
Time to get out of my white, umc bubble I guess!

In this day and age, I find calling a 10, and 8 year old little Mamas horrible. So they are only good to grow up and be Mothers right? I had two girls, and they are feminists, believe me, they would not find the term appropriate. I could never see calling my nieces little Mama's. Maybe like a lot of things, this term needs to go, cultural term, or not.

You are missing the point. It has nothing to do with calling them mothers. It's a term of endearment like "honey." I don't call my girls mama or little mama, but understand that it's meant as a term of affection, not something meaning girls only have one function in life. Feel free not to use it, but please don't impose your bias on others. I also find it interesting that you mention feminists, while you are bashing other cultures and trying to tell them they need to get rid of their term of endearment because you don't like it and choose not to take the time to see that it's not derogatory. Women's rights=good, other cultures' right=not good. So open minded and progressive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of a young girl being called mama.
Time to get out of my white, umc bubble I guess!

In this day and age, I find calling a 10, and 8 year old little Mamas horrible. So they are only good to grow up and be Mothers right? I had two girls, and they are feminists, believe me, they would not find the term appropriate. I could never see calling my nieces little Mama's. Maybe like a lot of things, this term needs to go, cultural term, or not.

You are missing the point. It has nothing to do with calling them mothers. It's a term of endearment like "honey." I don't call my girls mama or little mama, but understand that it's meant as a term of affection, not something meaning girls only have one function in life. Feel free not to use it, but please don't impose your bias on others. I also find it interesting that you mention feminists, while you are bashing other cultures and trying to tell them they need to get rid of their term of endearment because you don't like it and choose not to take the time to see that it's not derogatory. Women's rights=good, other cultures' right=not good. So open minded and progressive

+1 PP needs to get a clue!