Is it right to call mother by her name? How do you call your mother ?

God morning SHAMRACK, Well, in some familys they teach their children to call their parents by their names. But I think normaly it is that we do say mummy or mum. My son say mum to me, and when I get tired of hearing him say mum over and over again...I say mummy me here and mummy me there.My way of saying it is enough. But again, I have respect of my mother so I say mother to let other people know she is my MOTHER. As you did thought that her mother was a friend just becouse she called her by her name. You easaly get mixed up.

Im calling my mother as MAMA..:) sometimes when i amke fun of her, i call her jocelyn which is her name.. lolx.. she dont mind it anyway..:D cause maybe she knows im a bit crazy, but she thinks im loud and really crazy nyaha.. lolx

Different people feel differently about this topic, and people will do what is right for them. Just because I choose to call my mother "Mom" (Mommy when I was little) does not mean that is the right thing for everyone to do. As long as families are in agreement, that is all that should matter.

Amma Is Used In all South Indian Languages Dear Friend .. I Don't feel It is Right to Call Your Mother By Her Name .. It is Disrespectful .. I Remember once when I Was Younger I Was Angry I Wanted to call her by her Name .. Thank God, i didn't .. Do More On myLot .. Thank You ..

In the Philippines we call our mother not by their name. It would mean that you don't respect your elders if you call them by their name. We call our mothers nay, ina, mama, inang, and many more since we have many different ethnic languages.

It has to be mommy, mom or mama. Any other means of calling is difficult for me to digest. It feels like lowering the rank of the person who raise you. It's like seeing you are equal to your mom. Never. We are never an equal. Mom's the best.

I think Americans do that but I don't think they consider that as disrespect, or at least to some families it is normal. My family is conservative too,I am sure to get a slap in the face if I call my mother by name. I call her mommy and I train my kids to call me mommy too. I wouldn't want my kids calling me by name no matter how close we are.

Hi First of all I am happy to learn that you are from Kerala. Earlier I was not aware the same. Regarding your question, In India, especially in South nobody can imagine to call their mother by name. Giving respect to mother is a part of our culture and we are keeping that respect by calling her as ‘amma’ (Mummy). But in north I have seen that mothers are not getting that much respect (I am not saying about the whole population, but only about a minor part). I had a colleague and he told me that he is calling his mother by her name and he never felt any guilty on that because he used to call her name from childhood. So what I gathered from this, some people are not treating this as a disrespect (calling mothers by their name) and I think they are right. We should keep the respect in our heart and if we have respect and love to our mother I think that is enough and the way of calling is less important.

To call mother by her name is not right. This shows that we don't respect elder. Here, normally we call mother "MAK" (Malay), Ma, Mummy (Chinese ), Amma (Indian). Am I right, Malaysians ?

I csll her mama and when we are playing around i call her by her first.she calls me sis or sus sometimes which is short for sister.

If I was to call my mother by her name she might slap me. I call her momma. I think it is disrespectful to call her by her name.

We don't call our mothers by their names, it is considered rude and disrespectful.. even when she is a stepmother, we still don't call her by her names. I call my mum as "mama". Even her grandchildren call her "mama".

I don't believe anyone can call his/her mother by her name, its so disrespectful.. I call my mom, mummy and same do my kids call me....Think if someday i may get angry with my mom, and do try calling her by her name, i don't think any words will even come out of my mouth ... Here in our indian culture, to respect our husbands, we even don't call them by their name..

i usually just call my mother Mom unless she does something that shocks me, them i call her Mother or if i'm teasing her then i call her Mommy. i went thru a stage when i was about 15 when i wanted to call he by her name but she put an end to that real quick:)

I call my mom "Mama". I have one friend who always called her mom by her first name. She's the only person I actually know who did that. I would feel very uncomfortable calling my mom by her name. It just wouldn't feel right.

it actually depends on the culture of a certain place. here in the Philippines we don't call our mothers by their first name because it is impolite and disrespectful. Same way as we call our older brother/sister as 'kuya or ate' (native dialect in the Philippines we call Tagalog) :) this is unless the relationship between the mother and children is not so formal (meaning they almost treat each other like friends) and we call them cool moms. but in my case calling my mom with her first name is a no-no.. we were brought up in a conservative and traditional Filipino family. you obey your parents always.. there are no buts, no ifs.. yes sounds strict but almost all of households in the Philippines are like that. so i would say it depends on the country because we have different traditions..

hello there....i call my mother "meh or mommy" i don't call her by first name. for me it sounds as if i don't have respect for my mother.there are a lot of names we can call our mother here in the Philippines: MOMMY, MAMA, INAY, INA, MAMITA, MADER, NANAY, INANG, MA, MEH and still a lot more.... now there are some country that is used to calling their mothers and fathers by their first name.... i think this things differ in every country. so its up to them if they respect or not their parents... have a nice day....

if u call ur mom with her name... there's no sign of respect. i call my mother "mama" or "nanay"... filipino term for mother

In every places there different cultures... as to how you address your mother... by name or by what your culture teach you... In my place we call mothers as mama, inay, ina, inang, mommy ... me i call my mother mamang...it may looks different but it still shows love and respect to my mother....whom i derly missed....She is happy in handsof our LORD since 2003

It sounds strange calling our mother by her name, but everybody has his own habits. As lons as there is respect, I can accept that. I personally call my mother "mum".