Mom
Jaimie on Jan 9th 2008
I have a friend who lives several hundred miles away, so although we chat online I don’t get to see her and her son (who is the same age as CJ) interact too often. My family had the opportunity to visit her family a few months ago, and her son calls her “Mom”, not “Mommy”. I didn’t notice at first, until CJ started calling her “Mom” too, because he thought that was her name. I found that pretty amusing, CJ calling her mom, and so did my friend. But my friend also seemed a little sad about the fact that her son always called her mom now and never mommy.
Well, now CJ has started to call me mom on occasion. It is bittersweet to me - he doesn’t do it all the time, there is still plenty of “Mommy” thrown in there, but it is often enough for me to notice. My little boy is growing up. And although I like that he is growing up and maturing and becoming his own little person, I can’t help but wonder what happened to the little baby I spent so many hours rocking and holding, the toddler who ran as far as he could run, but always made sure he had me in his sights. As CJ sets off on the bus each morning, he often doesn’t even look out the window to wave goodbye to me anymore.
Mom.
Sniff.
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Yep, mine does this a lot now too and it’s bittersweet.
But awww come on CJ, wave bye bye to your Mom!
So sad - I’m making sure I enjoy my little 17 month old before he grows up!
Mike
My son (age 4) does this now too - he calls us “Mom” and “Dad”. And he used to call us “Honey”, but now he just calls us “Hon”. It does kind of make me sad.
On the other hand, our daughter (almost 15) still calls us “Mommy” and “Daddy”, which is interesting.
Ahhh so sad. Mine uses Mom very rarely. But it has happened. The hardest thing is watching them grow up so fast. As they say The days are long, but the years are short.