Well she involuntarily quit responding to Mom now that she’s a grandma (not my doing, my siblings have kids). So now I call her the same thing the kids do, Mimi
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Submitted 9 months ago by liyah27@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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piranhaconda@mander.xyz 9 months ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Mom
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 9 months ago
mum
Leonixster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Momther/mumther when I’m feeling particularly silly
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Mom, mamá or viejita (old lady) when I’m feeling brave. Sometimes when I’m feeling extra brave (and playful), I use her childhood nickname that she hates because it’s funny.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 9 months ago
“mem”, which is west-frisian for mum. Other than that I don’t really speak west-frisian, but words like mom/dad/grandma/grandpa all stayed in Frisian. Family also sometimes speaks Frisian to me, but unfortunately I forgot how to speak it at a young age and can only understand it.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Anyám
Anyukám
Iccsanyám
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
nézzenek oda! magyarok az interneten! :)
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
A szomszédos fost teli volt ilyenekkel. Volt mit tagelni Utazóban.
jaxxed@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Maaam… MAAAAAM!
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You must be my mom
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Usually, just mama. There’s a few nickname alternates that have piled up over the years, but mama sticks for whatever reason. She usually prefers it as well, so that works.
Strangely, my dad has two. Daddy and papa. I use them interchangeably, my sister sticks with daddy.
My kid calls their mom mommy or mom usually. Mommy when they’re tired for sure though lol.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Mom
Ma
Mameleh
MutterElaine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I call her Mama and only refer to her as my mom when talking to people outside the family. Kids call me mom, momma, mama - it just depends. They never call me by my name and I never call my mom by hers - that would be super weird and would seem disrespectful.
RBWells@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My kids call me Mom, step kids call me by my first name.
93maddie94@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I call my mom “mom”, but now that I have a kid I use her grandma name more frequently. Honestly it’s a little easier to call her that, I have some unresolved stuff and while we’re friendly the mom term is a little much. My daughter calls me “mommy”, but usually doesn’t enunciate so it’s “mah-ee” most of the time.
GoddessGundy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I call my mom Ma, too. My kids call me Ma or Mama. It’s funny but we took in some stray cat brothers in one day and kept them. A couple months later I heard Maaa-aaaa Maaaama! But the kids were at school… The kittens had learned they could get my attention immediately by mimicking my kids and that first couple times I couldn’t tell the difference. To this day their meow sounds like 'maaaa"
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
As a child, usually mother. As an adult, by her name.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A miserable cunt. Sorry, but I think balance is good and as much as most folk have decent moms, and I’m grateful for it, my mom is top 5 worst humans I’ve ever met. I hope your’s is better.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I call myum “mum”.
Don’t shame people for calling their mothers “mommy” : it sounds so middle-school edgy.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 9 months ago
“Mutter” (= mother) which started as a joke thing because it sounds as formal in German as it does in English but it kinda stuck and now anything else would feel weird
riskable@programming.dev 9 months ago
“Ma!”
Also, it has to be shouted. As a kid—coming into the house from who-knows-what adventure where I destroyed an item of clothing—again. Or as an adult trying to reach her over Fox News with the volume up way too loud.
This is the way.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just mom
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 9 months ago
Yep. Unless I’m being dramatic, then it’s mother
skrlet13@feddit.cl 9 months ago
Mamá (spanish, equivalent to mom)
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Mid-30s woman here, from western US. I call my mom any of the following, depending on mood/context:
- Mom
- Mommy
- Mama
- Ma (definitely can become Maaaaa at times)
- Uma
- Mother (usually in a jokingly stern tone)
- Her name (when she’s being particularly deaf)
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Because of My Cousin Vinny, I know ‘Ma’ to be very New Jersey but I suppose it could be southern too.
adhocfungus@midwest.social 9 months ago
That’s how I always imagine it when I read it too. Joel from Marvelous Ms Maisel says it almost exactly the same which just reinforced it.
Uri@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Ammu
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s always been mum and dad. My kids call me dad/daddy/dumb ass/fucker.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
That took a sudden turn right there
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The 10 year old has emotional regulation issues. Good kid but very volatile.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Mom or more often her name? A diminutive of her name. I like her name. I do not think she does.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I called my mother by her name. My oldest brother started it.
KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 9 months ago
móðir, madre, mah, a-máaaaa
(Not icelandic, but it sounds cool)
synapse1278@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maman 🇫🇷