All moms have it. The voice that they use when they talk to their kids.
It may not be an all-the-time voice. I for one never had the goo-goo, ga-ga voice when talking to the Roos as babies. In fact, I try to use a normal voice most of the time.
But that “mom voice” still sneaks out of my mouth on a regular basis.
Must be engrained.
And sometimes I get a little mixed up though with my voices. Like when I’m trying to talk to children and adults at the same time.
Like the other day.
As I walked through the hallway at church, I passed by one of the dads I knew from our church group. I had Little Roo in my hands and it was one of those slow-down-to-say-hi-but-not-stop-since-i-was-in-a-hurry interactions. He didn’t ask me a trick question. He didn’t ask me to juggle five guinea pigs while reading the Bible backwards.
He simply said: “Hi! How’re you doing?”
I did some weird two-part answer.
“Hi!” I replied back with a smile. [normal]
Then I turned to Little Roo and answered his question in my mom voice to my son: “I’m doing good.” [not normal]
I think I even bounced Little Roo up and down as I said it. [definitely NOT normal.]
WTF?
I wasn’t even LOOKING at the guy to answer his question.
My brain got all criss-crossed. Worst thing is, I’m sure it won’t be the last time.
Sigh.
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Twitter: EverythingEvie
January 24, 2012 at 9:14 am
OMG I did this just the other day while on a conference call working from home. I immediately slapped my forehead and thought “WTF is wrong with me?” Um, yeah. I’m pretty sure motherhood automatically makes you crazy. Occupational hazard I guess!
Twitter: 2sweetdiscovery
January 24, 2012 at 9:32 am
Bahahaha! I have done this so many times. I swear my mind has turned to mush after having my boys. I think pregnancy must have altered my brain. Thanks for sharing, makes me feel better to know I’m not alone.
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Twitter: _ScooterMarie
January 24, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Oh that is too funny! I know exactly what you mean, too, unfortunately.
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Twitter: AlissaEnders
January 24, 2012 at 4:04 pm
First, you look great in that photo!
Second, I once told a room full of professionals that I was going to potty. *ugh*
Twitter: fromtracie
January 24, 2012 at 7:28 pm
OH my gosh! I’m laughing so hard because I remember doing this countless times at church when my daughter was little.
It was so bad. so so bad.
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I’m a dad (8 month old boy) and I do this! If someone asks a question, I’ll answer it as my son using his baby boy voice. Definitely need to catch myself before it happens again…
Twitter: goodgirlgonered
January 25, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Hilarious. But I so hate when that happens!
Either way, omg. Love that picture of you, you look fantastic!
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So funny.
Twitter: AbbyOTR
January 30, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Ha! I try to use a normal voice too, and get annoyed with people who speak baby-talk to their kids. But it’s always funny when your own kids imitate your talking-to-kids voice. Like my 2yo saying to his 5yo brother when he spilled something: “First Middle Lastname! Who made this MESS?” Um, wonder where he got that?
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