Submitted 8 hours ago by liyah27@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I’m a young mom with a pre-teen son and he’s called me “mommy” up until he was about 10 and a half. Since then he’s been calling me “Ma” which I find pretty cute. Especially when he extends it to “Maaa” when yelling from another room. Maybe it’s a southern thing lol. Just curious about what y’all call your moms?
My kids call me Mom, step kids call me by my first name.
I call mine as little as possible. My life is so much better without her.
yeahhh i usually just use her birth name if I must refer to her at all. Some folks weren’t meant to have kids and don they best to prove it.
Norwegian: Mamma. It’s the same general meaning as “mom”. “Mommy” strikes me as a bit more childish, and I don’t think we have an equivalent here.
Hadde venner i oppveksten som brukte mor og far. Litt for formelt for meg, så mamma og pappa, selv om begge er over 80 nå
Used to be 妈妈, but eventually I just called her by her full name cause I’m tired of her toxicity and just went full “American rebellious teenager” mode with it. Its supposedly very rude because filial piety bullshit, but fuck that. I don’t recognize this bitch as a “mother”.
Just mom
Yep. Unless I’m being dramatic, then it’s mother
Mostly just Mom
It’s always been mum and dad. My kids call me dad/daddy/dumb ass/fucker.
That took a sudden turn right there
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.
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.
I call myum “mum”.
Don’t shame people for calling their mothers “mommy” : it sounds so middle-school edgy.
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"
Mãe.
I’m Brazilian.
As a child, usually mother. As an adult, by her name.
móðir, madre, mah, a-máaaaa
(Not icelandic, but it sounds cool)
Mid-30s woman here, from western US. I call my mom any of the following, depending on mood/context:
“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
Ammu
Because of My Cousin Vinny, I know ‘Ma’ to be very New Jersey but I suppose it could be southern too.
Mamá (spanish, equivalent to mom)
Mom or more often her name? A diminutive of her name. I like her name. I do not think she does.
I called my mother by her name. My oldest brother started it.
“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.
Elaine@lemmy.world 30 minutes 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.