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About Me
- Gina
- Here I am now... The mother of 4 wonderful boys, present and former foster mom to seven boys!! True at times there is an overload of testosterone and fart humor...but I muddle through well enough hehe. I am spoiled too, there is no lack of gentlemen opening doors, car doors etc... of course that balances out with no lack of bad aim in the bathroom! The news that shocked the world....? We are expecting a baby girl in March 2008!! I am a stay at home mom. I work more now than I did when I held a "real" job. Hubby is in the Navy. I cannot convey how proud I am of him. He is truly the man of my dreams and a better husband than I ever thought I deserved. Well that is the general overview of me ;) enjoy the blog. Don't know something? want to know? ASK. I love comments to my ramblings too.
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The younger they are (developmentally) the more likely they are to call you "mom" right away. It does not mean that they are attached (or that they are not attached). If other kids in the house call you "mom" then they figure that is what you are called. There are children in birth families who call all women "mom" and all men "dad."
If you teach all the kids to call you "Aunt Gina" it will morph into someting like "Anagee" and THAT will be what every kid calls you.
I know of several different foster parents whos ay that. The little girls I care for are 10 and 7, and they've always been very eager to call any caretaker "Mom" or "Dad," especially if they really liked the people right away!
I also know that when I worked in day care centers, a lot of the toddlers (but for some reason, especially the ones who were particularly attached to me) called me "Mommy" or "Mama." I don't think it was some sort of insult to their actual mama's, or that they THOUGHT I was their mama... I think it was because they knew how to say the word "Mama" and it was a word easily associated with a woman taking care of them!
:)
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