did your mum ever say...?

Question

"im gonna change my name one of these days!"

my mum did and i didnt get it til recently cos my little girl wanders around shouting mummy at the top of her voice, i cant even get any peace when im on the loo!!! lol

Answer 1

o god yes and i say it now, i do a lot of things my mum used to say, even though i swore i never would,
for example - take you coat off or you wont feel the benefit, then in my head i hear wtf i am my mother

Answer 2

Ha ha yes my mum said that to me, and now I say it to my son.
Im always getting but mummy, but mummy, why mummy, look at this mummy. He can even pick the lock on the bathroom so I dont get any peace on the loo either!

Answer 3

Yep my mom said it all the time, now strangely enough I its me that says it.
I have 2 girls shouting at the top of there voices, and when I'm on the loo if its not the girls its the dogs tryin to get my attention.

Answer 4

Its even worse when you are in a supermarket and a child yells out Mummy.....everyone looks around...yeah, so maybe it would be a good idea to change the name of Mummy at least we would know which Mummy a child is calling out to in a busy supermarket full of mummy's.....lol

Answer 5

All the time!!

And I've said it thousands of times too!!

When my lad was small I never shut the bathroom door because if I did he would scream so loud that the neighbours would come to see if everything was okay!!!

I used to play the 'Rumpelstiltskin' game with him - if he over used mum I would tell him that I wouldn't answer til he guessed my new name! Peace of sorts although the constant 'err is it ......?' could get annoying!!!

Answer 6

My girl's too young to do this (only 11 mths) and I found myself eagerly awaiting the day she calls my mommy. That was, until we were at the supermarket a few weeks ago and there was a little girl trying to get her mother's attention. Mommy, Mommy, Mom, MOM, MMMOOOOOMMMM.... the mother's answers, yes darling, and the girl has nothing to say. It's just a game to her. What, is she counting how many times she needs to say it in order to get her mother's attention? I've heard people say to answer them the first time they say it or else they will just keep going and get louder and louder. Does that work?

Answer 7

Great question! Isn't it funny that the moment they're born we're trying to teach them to say "mummy" and as soon as they get the hang of it we wish we hadn't bothered?

My daughter is 18 mo and currently says "Ma" or "Mam-a". If she's really after something she uses the "Ma" version and so can fit in a zillion more "Ma"s into every breath, so it really does sound like a stuck record. What's more, if I don't respond immediately, the pitch gets higher and higher until she's literally screeching "MA, MA, MA, MA, MA, MA, MA, MA, MA, MA,MA........." Arggggggggggggggggggh.

Answer 8

hi Dora
Great Question,,,, YES YES YES she used to say that to us all the time because all she ever heard from us was MUMMY MUMMY MUMMY. There was 8 of us,,,, Now i have my own kids i have found myself using the same saying LOL

Answer 9

Yeah, she used to say 'I'm changing my name and I'm not telling you my new one'. If she said no to me and I asked why she used to say 'because a Y isn't a Z, that's Y' It infuriated me no end. If we shouted her from another room she would shout back 'I've gone home'. You see, it's not the children that wind parents up, it's the mothers that wind their kids up!

Answer 10

Lol! I thought I made that one up! I said it to my kids, and still do (mine range from 13-21). Bet you can't talk on the phone, either! Seems that's always when they need you most--when you're trying to take your daily constitutional, or when you're on the phone!

Answer 11

yes and now my 5 kids do this, so I know what you mean. Just for fun I told them my name was not mom any more, and they had to call me chief cook and bottle washer. They just stared at me but at lest they were quit for about one minute, then we all laughed.