I'm Not Your Mama!

[Laurel]

When dck's call me mommy I usually say Mommy is working, I'm Denise. Usually a few times of that they get it. When I have a certain 2 year old around I don't have to say it she tells them! But it is probably easier for them, because I don't have my own saying mommy.

That's what I would say also but didn't have my own saying mommy. When I started daycare my own were school age and I only did daycare in the summer months for all school age children so it didn't come up.

However later I became a grandmother and my grandchildren were in my daycare so they called me 'grandma' and then dck's called me grandma too. I liked it though and their parents didn't mind. But grandma seems a bit different than mom.

Sometimes my grandkids would say "No, she's MY grandma!" and get upset but then I'd whisper to them that I was ONLY their grandma but the kids just say that. That seemed to make them feel okay. It was like it was our little secret.

Laurel

[FullHouse]

This sort of reminds me of how my younger two kids who were about 4 and 6 when i started the daycare would call me by my first name instead of mom, They knew it would get my attention quicker than the "mommy" everyone else was calling me!