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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.

kittylester Fri 18-Jan-13 16:10:52

After a week like this one, a real pain. I know she can't help it but nevertheless.......sad

merlotgran Fri 18-Jan-13 16:16:39

Mum is just Mum but my daughters call me, Moots and DS calls me Doris confused

numberplease Fri 18-Jan-13 16:32:31

I called mine Mum, my kids call me Mum, or sometimes, in jest, Mother.

tanith Fri 18-Jan-13 16:37:38

Always was Mum my kids call me Mum or Mother..

absent Fri 18-Jan-13 16:41:20

Oh kitty I know what you mean. Mr absent and I looked after my mama for the last five or six years of her life and sometimes it was very hard. I define that period of my life by the commode. grin But I'd give almost anything to have her back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!)

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

Mum.

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

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

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'.

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

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.

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

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?

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.........

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