Most children will start calling their mother “Mommy” or “Mie”, but not Clarissa. For some reason, she started by calling me “Ma-Mai-No”. What was the reason, I wasn’t sure. No matter how I corrected her, she will still call me that, confusing friends and relatives. It went on for about a year, and she later changed it to “Ma-Mai”. By chance, I found out from a Brazilian client that her kids called her “Ma-Mai” because it means Mommy in Portuguese. Could it be the Portuguese blood in her? I asked myself. As she grows older, Ma-Mai became Mommy. And now, sometimes when I disciplined her, she will even answer me – “Yes, Mother”.
Although “Ma-Mai-No” sounded quite weird, I actually missed her calling me that now. Calling me that sort of name gave me the feeling that I am someone very special to her, and that was why she gave her Mommy a special name.
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