Mama's Boy & Daddy's Girl Hats

Mama's boy cuts both ways. In the dating threads Yahoo Lifestyle rounded up from Reddit, it is the complaint: "That's not how my mom does it." Said by the son himself, it is a flag. A rabbi writing in Jewish Montana's magazine says he never missed a day, six days a week, of speaking to his mother, and calls that daily call a simple way to make sure parents know they are cherished. He has company: Pew Research's 2006 Mother's Day survey found 52% of men call their mother at least weekly. The daughter's side has its own register, the caption under every father-daughter photo: "Daddy's girl, through and through." This collection wears both phrases as flags, never as apologies. MAMA'S BOY and DADDY'S GIRL are the two bare badges. Around them sit the small domestic facts that make the bond real: Sunday dinner with perfect attendance, the dinner check he still picks up, a mom who thinks her son is a catch, and the daughter who can check the oil because he taught her. Search the hat marketplaces and the phrase mostly turns up in baby talk, "Mommy's Baby Boy" caps on Redbubble; these are for the grown kid. They land as Mother's Day and Father's Day gifts, or for the friend who calls home every day and has stopped explaining why. PROUD MAMA'S BOY and HE STILL PAYS FOR DINNER each get a second colorway.