SHE gave her son the chance to choose what he wanted to call her.
And while she was hoping he’d choose something “cute”, he ended up picking a moniker that sounds like something the government would call her.
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Stacey explained that the question of what her son would call her and her wife was one that arose a lot at the beginning.
“And we always said, ‘We’re going to let him decide, he’s going to set the pace’,” she said in her TikTok video.
“Obviously you have to call yourself something so it started out that I was Mummy and my wife was Mama.
“But it’s developed into a real formal version of that. He calls me Mummy Stacey. And I hate it.”
Stacey said she feels like she’s at a business meeting whenever he uses that name, adding: “We’re not peers, bro – why are you using my first name?”
“I’ve tried to break him of it, I’m like ‘You can just call me Mummy, I’m the only one’. But he doesn’t,” she sighed.
“That’s not how he addresses me and he never will.
“I see where he got that – obviously my wife and I are calling each other by our first names… I can see the leap.
“But I don’t like it.”
She’s also aware that he could have chosen a worse name for her – noting that her 15-year-old calls her “Bruh”.
But Stacey concluded her video by saying: “If you’re thinking about letting your children choose, do not.
“It could backfire.
“I thought it was going to be something real cute but it’s something that I would receive from the government, you know?”
She added in the video caption: “I was hoping for something cute like Momo or Mimi but not this.”
People in the comments section were quick to reveal their own similar situations, with one writing: “My two year old has started calling me ‘other mum’. So that’s fun.”
“My son called me ‘mama car’ and my spouse ‘mama truck’, cuz I drove a car and them a truck,” another said.
As a third added: “Occasionally my daughter will call me mothership. I don’t know if I should be impressed or offended!”
“I am always flabbergasted when my children address me by my government name,” someone else commented.
“Why? For what reason? How do you even know that name?”
