{"id":278,"date":"2005-07-22T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/are-you-my-mommy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:12:00","slug":"are-you-my-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/are-you-my-mommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you my Mommy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been giving some idle thought to what I’ll be called as a parent. The default is “Mom<\/strong>” – what my own mother was called, and I think the majority of people in this country use Mom. I’d be OK with Mom.
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\n“Mama<\/strong>” has gotten a bit of hip cachet these days (from Hip Mama<\/a>), and I could see being “Mama” as well.
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\nI kind of cringe when I think of being “Mommy<\/strong>“. 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”.
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\n“Ma<\/strong>” 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.”<\/em> I think it would be fun to be Ma and Pa, but I’m not sure we could pull it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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