Toddler won't call me "mommy"
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It's very common for "mommy" to be one of the later words spoken, from my experience. My DS said a lot of words before mommy (including "Daddy" and "doggie," so similar to your experience with your dog). Even after I was pretty sure he reliably could say "mommy," he didn't say it as much as other words.
I'm a SAHM, though I don't think that had anything directly to do with it. Although they say that "ma-ma-ma-ma" is an easy and early sound to make, I feel like that was not the case for my child when it came to actually producing words. It worked in babble but not in "real" words. Now he's almost 3 and will literally sing, "Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy" repeatedly. Don't stress -- it's not an affront to you at all. |
Anonymous
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When I was a teenager I did a lot of babysitting. One of the kids I sat for was adopted from Russia a little after 2 so he came over here doing toddler babbling in Russian. It took him awhile to start to talk in English but when he did, he started calling me Mommy.
We figured it was because he associated the word "Mommy" with a female who took care of him and who was safe to him. It upset his mother but thrilled me. |
Anonymous
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DD would say "mommy" to anyone. To her it meant "do it", "get it", "give me that", "fix it". If DH was alone with her she would point to something she wanted on the counter and say "mommy". Finally, after about twenty words I finally got a "mama" out of her meaning me.
Interesting what she thought "mommy" meant though... |
Anonymous
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My 14 month old can say mama -- I've heard him practice in his crib and if you ask him to say mamama, he will (if he feels like it). But when I ask him to call me Mama, he responds, "Baba!" Daddy is Dada but I am Baba. Cats, dogs, his rabbit lovey, and the roomba vaccuum that he loves are all also baba. I think he knows what I'm asking him to do because he has no problem repeating various sounds after us, but in his mind apparently I am Baba, and he has no intention of calling me anything else. It's a bit discouraging but what can you do. He is also fairly delayed in speaking, I think -- at least he's behind the other kids in his daycare -- so I'm just glad he calls me anything.
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Anonymous
| Grow up OP. |