Would you allow your kid to call his/her grandma “mammy”
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Anonymous
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OP, just do a slow transition to Grammy...or Gammy. For example, if you usually say "let's go see Mammy" then now you say "let's go see your Mammy Gammy." (or Mammy Grammy" And then do that for a few weeks until one day you drop the Mammy part and just call her Grammy or Gammy.
Nicknames can morph all the time. I have a friend who called her sister Sunny when they were kids...then it become Sunny Bunny...then Bunny...then Bun-bun..then Bon-Bon!--which she now calls her today. |
Anonymous
| Surely there are no AA people who care what your white son calls his white grandma. |
Anonymous
Yes but it might embarrass white child as he grows up and realizes that the term of endearment that he uses for his grandma is actually offensive caricature to the ears of his black best friend. |
Anonymous
You say that -- until you have a white kid yelling "Mammy! Mammy! Bring me my juice!" across a park filled with people of different races, and then you want the earth to open up and swallow you whole. I don't think it's hard to switch it to Gammy, Grammy, or even Granmammy, without the kid even noticing. I called my grandmother Drammy until I was four because I couldn't say the GR combination (which is a common speech delay and maybe what's going on with OP's kid). |
Anonymous
You know that OP is nervous and unnatural around black people. Her kid won't have a black best friend. |
Anonymous
| My family is Irish, and we always call our grandmother Gammy, and mother Mammy, as is done in Ireland. |
Anonymous
| No, just no. |
Anonymous
| It's fine. |
Anonymous
| It's fine, OP. |
Anonymous
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I don't think it matters. But if it REALLY bothers you then say "her name is grammy" or whatever.
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Anonymous
The French Mamie which means grandmother is pronounced the same...but with a French accent obvs. |
Anonymous
| A British friend was shucked when people in the States reacted to her name, “Jemima,” a very common name in the UK. |
Anonymous
Yes in Ireland mothers are typically called Mammy or Mam. |
Anonymous
| Obv. your kid's intention isn't racist, which I think means it matters most what you think of other people overhearing him call her that. Or when your kid realizes that he's calling her a name that is racist in certain contexts. |
Anonymous
+1 |