I'm Mom when referred to apparently

[Snoz]

Lol, AIBU to be amused at my dc's decision to refer to me as my Mom? Mom? We don't live in America!
She goes to an international boarding school so perhaps she's finding a level, but I was always Mammy.

Anyway, I guess I can cope with Mom.
At least she's not calling me 'her at home' or something.
Mom. I think I can get used to it.

I know, this is not a serious thread, I actually find it amusing how my title changes over the years. I'll always be her mother whether she likes it or not.

I’m Mumma when he wants comfort/cuddles to my Scottish ds for no reason I’ve ever understood. We’re in a Mum/mummy area but he’s adamant I’m Mumma.

DS7 called me "not Daddy" for the first year of being able to talk, so at least it's not that.

This is excellent! I was Daddad for a while, DH was Daddy. I’m mummy now but I quite miss Daddad.

Dmil calls herself Mom and always have she's 95 and from Yorkshire so not an Americanism

When she was 1 she went through a period of calling me Mamaw. Like little house on the prairie. I suspect she was actually watching that at her childminders lol.

How old is your daughter?
Maybe her friends have been watching Mrs Brown's Boys...?????

Teenage DS calls me ‘The Mother ‘ , when he does I reply ‘Yes, The Brat!’

12

I'm guessing most of them refer to their Mom, so she is now doing the same.

Yeah I think she's just copying her American friends (or the ones who had American nannies), I went through a phase of saying 'oh man!' soon grew out of it!

Snoz, DD1 went to an American international school for the whole of secondary and the last year of primary, boarding for the last four years, and she started to call me Mom too! We've beaten it and the accent out of her now that she has left though. DD2 calls me "maman" .

When our DC are talking to us both they call us (DH and I) Dam.

Dad + Mum = Dam

Dam when's dinner going to be ready?
Dam, can we play a game?

I've been 'MOTHER!!!' (usually followed by 'where is my...?') for several years now.

Experience has yet to triumph over hope. I still don't know where any of them have ever put whatever it is they can't be bothered to look for or remember where they shoved it themselves. Nevertheless they keep asking.

I am mum. If they call me anything else I ignore them completely.

You say Mom in some Midlands accents; not Mum or Mam. Remember, every single ‘US’ word to describe a familial relationship came from the UK / Europe first/

Oh I'm still Mammy directly. I'm just Mom when referred to in the third person apparently. I can't even remember how I established that. We were chatting etc. (which she feels like is her MOM interrogating her). Hmm

I'm sure she was on Snapchat ''So, my Mom was like interrogating me as usual and stuff''

I did manage to establish that she likes a boy (a friend????????).

Welcome to the proud, capable American mom club!

I hereby make you an honorary Yank.

😁🙆👭

If they're still speaking to you you're winning
(it's ma here btw)

DS is not quite 2 1/2 years old and a couple of months ago switched from Mama to Mummy, wholly of his own volition. What is even more is that he is starting to call me 'Mother'! I think he has heard DH refer to me in that way maybe half a dozen times. He is 2 going on 12 most of the time.