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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Are you ‘mama,’ ‘mom’ or ‘mother?’
What do your kids call you, their dad and their grandparents?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We went to my girlfriend’s house to play last Saturday. There was another family there as well, which added up to nine kids playing in the house.
We heard a little voice yell down from the upstairs, “Mama, I need you.” I was like, “Was that one of mine?”
The other mom said, “Well I know it wasn’t mine. They never call me mama.” (Her husband is English and she is from up North so I don’t think they grew up saying it.)
But it got me wondering: What do your kids call you and why? Do you think that certain names indicate a more formal relationship or a closer one? Who decided what you would be called? (All these questions apply for Dads too.)
A corollary question: What do your kids call their grandparents?
AJC reporter Gayle White wrote a fantastic story a few years back about how the baby boomer grandparents totally don’t want to be called Grandma and Grandpa. They don’t think they are that old. So there are all the crazy variations now out there.
My parents are Mimi and Papa. My mother wanted to be Grandmother, but we finally convinced her a 9-month old just couldn’t say that.
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