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?

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    My kids call me Mom, step kids call me by my first name.

    Oh and sometimes mama, in Spanish.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    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”.

  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I call myum “mum”.

    Don’t shame people for calling their mothers “mommy” : it sounds so middle-school edgy.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    To her face, “Mum”, but when referring to her indirectly it’s usually, “my mother”.

    I remember asking if it was OK to stop calling her “Mummy” but I’m not sure how old I was at the time. Definitely under 10 though. Probably heard other kids of the same age calling their mothers “Mum” when they were being collected from school and figured I’d better act accordingly and do the same.

    (The only people who use “Mom” here are folks in the West Midlands, I think. And American ex-pats, I guess, but that doesn’t really count.)

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      My mother goes by mum or grannie, but my wife goes my mom, pronounced “mum”.

      That’s because “mom” is a shortening of “mother” which is what she is, but “mum” is a shortening of “ma’am” which is a shortening of “madame” which means “my lady” and is what you call someone of a higher social class than you. And she wanted to get as far away from class hierarchy in the house as possible.

      They’re both generally “my mother” when spoken of in the third person by me or my kids.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days 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.devEnglish
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    2 days 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 the sound of Fox News with the volume up way too loud.

    This is the way.