What is the inherent evil contained in the phrase, “Mommy Blogger?” While listening to Meagan Francis discussing “Marketing and Monetization” with Pat Flynn on The Smart Passive Income Podcast, episode SPI 062, I was dismayed by her disdain of the “Mommy Blogger” appellation. She made a comment, which caused me to stop the audio and scurry over here to purge my soul of anguish tempered with sadness.
She said, “I don’t think a Mom Blogger coined the phrase, ‘Mommy Blogger.’ Someone just sort of slapped it on us. A lot of us cringe about that. {guttural sound} Even my kids don’t call me Mommy.” Later in the show she adds, [Mommy Blogging is] “Such a divisive term. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.”
Meagan said it with such contempt…I am aghast. She even has a visceral, verbal reaction every time Pat says the word. He even apologized for saying it.
Why I Love Being Called Mommy & A Mommy Blogger
Before you get all up in my face, I am not only a Mommy, I am a GrandMommy! So I have life experience, which might well qualify me as a ‘Master Mommy.’ I gave four fairly capable adult human beings the gift of life…so I can speak to this with expertise or guru-ness everyone wants beside their name at the moment.
I still remember the day my eldest, Chip, first spoke the word, “Mommy!” As a matter of fact it is recorded in his meticulously kept (first child syndrome) Book of Days baby book as June 14, 1973. I scooped him up and did a happy dance with him in our tiny living room on Edgewood Circle. Our gray poodle, Daisy, thought it was a major occasion and promptly sprang to her back feet and danced with us. It was cause for celebration and still is in my book!! The same scenario happened in relatively the same manner with each of the twins and my daughter. Cherished moments for this, ahem… Mommy!
Mommy-hood is a right of passage just as Motherhood is. How can I take offense to that beautiful word? How can it be so disdainful as to create a less-than slap-in-the-face attitude to this generation of Moms? The scorn with which Meagan even said the words was palpable across the airwaves. What am I missing here?
Someone please enlighten me as to why you would not want your child to call you Mommy. Why is it bad to be called a Mommy Blogger?
I have been a Mommy for some 42+ years now. I look forward to understanding why I should walk away in fury when one of my children ever has the audacity to call me Mommy to my face again.
Please enlighten me below…
I agree. My son calls me Mummy, and that’s what we called our mum until much older.
I’m a blogger, and as I write about my son and what we get up to most of the time, then fact, I am a blogger and I’m a mummy, so why not be called mummy blogger. As long as I’m professional about my blogging, which so many mummy bloggers are, then I don’t see why people should look down on us.
I suppose the only alternative would be lifestyle as it’s about what we get up to and our lifestyle, although probably not the traditional ‘lifestyle’ blogging subjects.
It would be interesting to find out when mummy blogger became something seen as worse than just a factual term.
I think it is more the fact that it makes us seem less professional in the eyes of the industry. I blog more about crafts, DIY, food and entertainment but happen to be a mommy (a term I love). Why should I be called a mommy blogger if it is not my main intent or topic.