So I’m a single parent, my sister looked after my 19 month old daughter for a few hours one afternoon she loves playing with her two kids. Anyway when she brought her back she was repeatedly saying ‘mama’ when she dropped her off, she has said it before but not often at all. I said why is she all off sudden repeatedly saying mama? she states she kept saying where’s mama, let’s take you home to mama etc so I didn’t think much off it. However, that night she also kept saying daddy, so I was quite pissed off as obviously she doesn’t have a daddy at home. I mentioned to her the next day and she said ‘oh she was calling B (her partner) daddy I was like what, she said yeah must off picked it up off the kids. I said to her I’m very creeped out she has come home from a few hour play at your house calling you mama and .. daddy. I said she’s never picked it up off the kids before and we’ve spent all day there. I know how DD picks up words is by repeatedly saying them words. She does call me mama too sometimes not often. But everytime we see my sister now she calls her mama. My sister actually said to me why you getting so worked up over it all kids call other people mama. I said no I’m creeped out over the fact you’ve purposefully taught her that, she’s too young to understand what the word mama means but she associates that word with her because she has repeatedly said it to her that day? Does anyone else find this weird or just me? My sister starts saying she’s not taught her anything blah blah.
But I’m due to start work after Xmas, the only help I’ve got is my sister and I will need her to pick her up from nursery one day and have her a few hours one day a week till I come home from work. But now after this strange episode, I really don’t want her to have her.