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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate that also OP.  :-)

My daughter is only 5 but she has started using a high-pitched babyish voice, saying "like" as a filler word, and occasionally calling me mama.  I am correcting all of those things and she's 5!  You can bet your bottom dollar that anyone old enough to be looking for a full-time job would not be allowed to talk to me that way.

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What's so offensive about your 5-year-old calling you mama?  [/quote]

It's not PP's name. You decide what you are going by, and that's it. If your name is Elizabeth, and someone keeps calling you Liz, when that's not a nickname you want to use, they need to be corrected, and they need to stop doing it. A 5 year old can understand that, and OP's young adult DD can definitely understand it.[/quote]

The adult daughter not withstanding, I just don't see the problem with a young child calling her mother "mama" if that's what she suddenly decides to call her.  It's not like she's calling her Dorothy or Rover.  My 5-year-old calls me Mommy (well, Mummy sometimes, when she's in Peppa Pig mode).  I imagine someday that will become Mom.  I don't dictate it.  Seems like a totally different scenario than a grown-up.  I guess I would just expect a parent to be a little more understanding with a kindergartner and maybe, I don't know, think it's cute.[/quote]

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