Are you my Mommy?

By kate on July 22nd, 2005

I’ve been giving some idle thought to what I’ll be called as a parent. The default is “Mom” – what my own mother was called, and I think the majority of people in this country use Mom. I’d be OK with Mom.

“Mama” has gotten a bit of hip cachet these days (from Hip Mama), and I could see being “Mama” as well.

I kind of cringe when I think of being “Mommy“. I don’t know why, I just don’t like it. It sounds like the whine is already built in. Oddly, I don’t have the same problem with “Daddy”.

“Ma” is a name I want to like. Steve and I sometimes joke about being Ma and Pa: “Storm’s comin’, Ma.” “Tomatoes’re gettin’ big, Pa.” I think it would be fun to be Ma and Pa, but I’m not sure we could pull it off.