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What do/did you call your mother?

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absent Fri 18-Jan-13 16:09:05

Someone on the Room 101 thread voted for adults who call their mothers Mummy. I have to confess I quite often called mine Mummy, but also Ma, Mama and La Madre as well as the good old popular Mum. I think she rather enjoyed the variety.

soop Sun 20-Jan-13 12:29:51

dorset I have never felt that addressing my late parents as Mummy and Daddy was anything but normal. Whenever all the family get together, we continue to do so. As for middle class...I'm not sure that I know the meaning of the term. confused

matson Sun 20-Jan-13 10:32:27

Ana, i will have to look at cards in the shop now! i,m trying to remember if "mam" cards were around when my mam was still alive. i wonder why they dont make them?

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 10:22:34

Mummy till I was about twelve, then mum. My kids call me by my first name. GS calls DD Mama.

dorsetpennt Sun 20-Jan-13 10:15:54

Mummy for years, like she called hers Mummy until the day she died - my mother not my grandmother who lived a further 10 years after my mother died. Then a work colleague said it sounded affected and middle class - it made me feel so sensitive about it I stopped.
Mine call me Mum, for some reason I was called Mimsel for a while during their teens. My DGDs called their mother MumMum.

vampirequeen Sun 20-Jan-13 10:08:08

I call her mam when I'm speaking to her but memam when I'm speaking about her.

Around here me and my are sometimes interchangeable. For example:

"Who's coat is this?"......."It's my coat."

"Wait, while I put me coat on."

Ana Sat 19-Jan-13 19:25:50

matson, I know people who call their mothers 'mam' too - but they don't seem to sell cards with that on...hmm

Smoluski Sat 19-Jan-13 19:19:36

Mine was mum or muvver.....funnily enough when working with a lot of men I became muvver because was always taking in cakes etc ...have always been mummy p to all my DC. Friends and nanny p to E's friendsxx

Lilygran Sat 19-Jan-13 18:51:34

Always Mummy and I can't change it now as she is so confused. My DS and DDiL call me by my name. The DS started it when they were little and couldn't be talked out of it. The DGS still say Granny but I notice when they are speaking about us.........

matson Sat 19-Jan-13 18:35:22

my mam was mam, my children refer to me as mam, but always buy me cards with mum on?

FlicketyB Sat 19-Jan-13 18:29:18

Always Mummy, why not? DS calls me Mar and DD calls me Mummy. To DGC I am Grandma or sometimes Grannima

nanaej Sat 19-Jan-13 13:01:49

I called my mother mummy until I was about 12 then she became mum or mumsy.
I was mummy to my girls until they were about 6/8 and now am mum, ma or mother.

To DGC I am nana as was my mum's mum to me. My dad's mum was grandma.

grannyactivist Sat 19-Jan-13 12:19:38

I call my mother mum. My sons call me mum, or ma which I quite like, but my daughters call me mummy, or mother. I like being mummy. smile

Riverwalk Sat 19-Jan-13 11:58:45

I call my mother Mum, or Mother when she's annoying me!

My sons call me Mummy - if they are referring to me in a conversation they'll say 'my mum'.

celebgran Sat 19-Jan-13 09:51:26

Mum and that what my kids called me also, seems trendy to use Mummy now??!!

petallus Sat 19-Jan-13 09:48:39

Mum.

Gally Sat 19-Jan-13 09:05:47

Mummy until I was about 12. My DDs call me Mum although one occasionally writes to Mummy. Her children call her Mumma (but they are Australian!)

janeainsworth Sat 19-Jan-13 08:47:46

My mother was mum.
My DDs celebrate their north-eastern upbringing by calling me mam, and DS takes it one stage further by calling me muvva.

ginny Fri 18-Jan-13 18:50:02

My mum was always Mum. My grown up daughters have many names for me. Mum, Muma, Ma, Mumsy,Mummy P,Mother, Old Trout and probably a few I don't want to know about.

BAnanas Fri 18-Jan-13 18:45:53

Mummy till about 7, then mum, ditto for my own children. I'm nana to my granddaughter and step-grandmama (a family joke) to my step-grandchildren. Oh and my step daughter, we usually always call each other by first names, except when she introduces me to anyone new she will say this is my wicked step-mother and then collapse into fits of laughter!

Greatnan Fri 18-Jan-13 17:25:39

In Lancashire, it was Mam and Dad. I have always been Mum, unless I have done something wrong, when I am 'Mother!'. I was Mummy until the girls were about six, then they must have decided it was too babyish.
I have been Nan to my ten gc, but I am Nannynoo to my great gd.

soop Fri 18-Jan-13 16:52:40

...and until his death at the age of 84, my father was Daddy. smile

ninathenana Fri 18-Jan-13 16:51:57

Has been Mum since I was about 5. DH sister has always called hers Mummy n Daddy. I find it quite ironic as she is as cockney as they come and swears like a trouper, she's lovely though.
To me it's a middle class thing. Sorry no offence meant.

Ylil Fri 18-Jan-13 16:51:26

I called my mum, mum. My boys call me mum or ma!

soop Fri 18-Jan-13 16:51:20

Mine was always Mummy...and I'm not ashamed to say so. smile

Marelli Fri 18-Jan-13 16:48:49

Mine was Mum. I'm Mum, or Mam, or Maw.