Alternative names for "mother"

[La]

i see it as a sign of affection. calling a parent by their first name to me seems somewhat impersonal. i know my cousins in italy call their parents by their first names as they get older, but i love calling my mom "mommy" on occasion. to me it feels like a sign to show her how much I love her even by using the slightly more childish form of the word.

~La



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[engtchr]

La - I agree with you. If nothing else, I see calling my parents Mom and Dad as a sign of respect as well as a sign of love. To others they are called by their first name, but for me - their daughter - to call them by their first name would show a lack of respect for all they've done for me. I am their child, and they have earned (more than once!) the right to be called Mom and Dad.



Just my humble opinion,

engtchr

[Diebrock]

I don't think calling parents by their first names is disrespectful. But maybe that is because my mother (and her younger sister but strangely not her older) called her parents by their first names since she was a teenager. And I can garantee you it had nothing to do with lack of respect or love. She says it just developed like that.

Me, I'm still calling my parents Mama and Papa and probably always will, just because I've called them that all my life and I'm just too unflexible to change it. It would really take some work.

And I guess, should I ever find the love of my life and she wanted to have children, she could be Mama and I could be Nanna. That's what my little brother called me because Corinna was to complicated. Now I understand in English it means grandmother and that would probably be as wierd to English folks as the Oma/Omma (grandmother in German) is to me.

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[indigogirlie]

yeah, i'm getting so broody at the mo, but still at uni, not the best plan.

I think i'd like to be called momma mia, or something mad like that!



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[ZeFlannelSheep]

How about a good old fashioned Welsh "Mam" ?



Good luck to the both of you whatever names you decide on.



Jayne

[Mrs Vertigo]

I mostly call my mom either "ma" (actually, "maaaaa"), or Ima - which is simply the hebrew word. My best friend calles his mom "Tamtzik". The most complex name I've ever called my mom was "Umi-Numiah" (pronounced Umee-Numee-ah). I think I was about 8.



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[fairydust]

*pouts* i sooo want babies, like now. But my gf says we're too young but i mean, come on, she's almost 17, and i'll be 18 soon!!! ok ok, yeah, too young *mumbles* dammit. But, we want kids when we're older and I think we're goin with me bein mommy*im havin the babies*, then when they get older, i'd be mom or whatever they choose and she will be mama. We joke around that she could be called daddy too...lol...but most likely just mama....anyway, yeah, that was slightly pointless....cuz I think someone already mentioned the mommy/mama thing..anyhoo....congratulations!!! *runs off to bug Karen about havin babies*

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[mocha fiend 22]

oh mygod why did someone put this up...lol.. j/k...i guess Jayma already told you all so not much to tell she doesnt bug me with this stuff i find it cute... and some day when we are older sweetie we can have many babies... lol... we are tooo young right now and as much as i love babies they really would not be good for me them hehe ok im a geek and all but i want to be called mama i think its cute as hell but some of the other names seem neat too... its up to the baby hehe

The word "gulp" comes to mind.

[Lesbadar]

Hey JustSkipIt,

My partner and I have a nine year old daughter who I gave birth to. My partner is jewish (I'm not) so she's Ema (pronounced EEma) which is Hebrew for mother and I'm Mom. I've been waiting for one of the writers to pick up on this in the fictions but I guess I'll have to write my own. Don't let it be too big of a concern, my daughter switches back and forth and calls my partner Mom when I'm not around. Trust me the biggest concern will be getting your child to sleep through the night!

[Imperfectly Me]

Well, here's non baby having me with a suggestion. A girl I work with has two children, a three year old and a new baby boy. the three year old calls Becca Mama and her partner MaPaw. Lol.

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[tabularasa]

I love this thread..so cute. My gf and I have discussed this issue (although we are nowhere near being in the "mommy" situation ) a bunch of times. What we decided is that I would definately be "mommy". She, on the other hand, would be "Maddy"....a word that we got when we mixed "mommy" and "daddy" together. LOL!! Not that we need the whole patriarchal connotations to our situation, but since she is a soft butch and would probably be the one to take the kids camping and fishing we thought that "maddy" would be cute. So unless we find something else in the next few years...Mommy and Maddy it will be.

[slayer747]

hmm.. i call my mom "MUMSKY" sometimes... i started doing it when i'm around 8. she likes it. she said it's cute.

God I miss her.

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[daddykat]

making an actual suggestion but this is a very interesting (and sweet) post to go thru. Wish I'd seen some of these ideas before I did my "Children of the Dale" fanfics. I have Summer L. Maclay-Rosenberg calling Tara "Mother" and Willow "Maman", while for Autumn A. Rosenberg-Maclay I reverse it. A lot of your suggestions would have been much nicer. (Autumn does sometimes refer to "my moms", or, when she's having a major attitude problem, "my coparents".)