Like most siblings, the Kelce brothers have their own personalities and traits. Travis for example, has a tendency to call his mother Donna, ‘Mommy’ – a habit which his older brother Jason finds a bit annoying, or at least a little strange, considering he is 35 years old…
When the two brothers invited their mother to be a guest on their latest New Heights podcastthe first question put to Donna by Jason was how she felt about being called ‘Mommy’ by her adult son.
“Mom, is it weird at all that Travis still calls you Mommy?” Jason asked.
Travis Kelce’s ‘Mommy’ in-joke
“Erm, it’s kind of funny. I think it’s hysterical,” Mrs Kelce replied. “I take it as, I get a chuckle, Because I know he’s doing it to make me laugh, you know?
“That’s all that Mommy needs to know,” interjected Travis, to squeals of laughter from his mom. “This is between us Jason! It’s what happens when you’re the first-born”
Jason was quick to correct him: “You’re the second-born, Travis…”
“You’re so much like (father) Ed it’s f***ing disgusting,” Travis retorted, prompting their mother to race to his defence.
“Nah, you have several redeeming qualities Jason,” Donna reasoned.
Donna Kelce talks about raising her sons
Once the Mommy issue was sorted and out of the way, the Kelce family then settled into talking about other issues, among them what to give on Mothers’ Day, synthetic wombs, bringing girlfriends back home to meet the parents and one question from a view about advice raising two young boys aged one and four – not a too dissimilar age gap to Travis (35) and Jason (37).
“Oh man…” Donna began. “That’s a rough one. I don’t think you cultivate anything, I think the dynamic of the family is the dynamic of the family. I didn’t try to force anything. I didn’t try to steer it in any way. I think kids are born with certain characteristics. I think some parents take too much credit for their children’s success, and for their failures”.
“You know what Mom, I think it’s on the older sibling‚” Travis responded. “I think eventually, you’ve gotta let the older sibling know – I think that’s what you and Dad did a great job of, is that you forced Jason to be my friend. And by doing this, Jason would then just torture me! He would find fun ways to say we were playing togetherwhen in reality, playing with Jason was, ‘Hey Travis, you wanna go be the goalie outside?’ So I could just tip slapshots at you in enjoyment!“.
Brother love over sibling rivalry
“Some kids are born that are driven, some kids aren’t,” Mama Kelce reasoned. “All we gave you was opportunity. You guys ran with it. We followed what you wanted – what you thought was good”.
On a slightly more serious note, Jason concluded: “I’m gonna disagree heavily with what my mother is saying right now. I think that if you want two brothers to love each other, as parents, you need to go above and beyond to make sure that both kids feel they’re getting loved and attention in the same amounts – and encourage the brothers when they celebrate each other.
“For me, I think that a lot of the siblings that I know that aren’t closeor the ones that feel that they have fractured relationships, a lot of those feel like there’s a competitiveness to their relationship with their siblings that, quite frankly, Travis and I just have never felt. And I think you and Dad both did a great job, our entire lives, of taking me to Travis’ game to watch him play, having Trav come to my games and watch me play… there was a concerted effort by both of you to, not only celebrate both of us but to have each of to celebrate our brother. I think that’s the answer personally. It’s gonna be competitive naturally, then you have to have Dad tell the older one to lose some time to make the younger one feel better”.
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