I don't have children, but when I hear kids screaming, "MUUUUM!!!" or - when I'm in the States - "MOOOOOOOMMMMIIIIEEE!" I shudder.
Not only does it remind me of the irritationon I felt as child when, no matter how loud I screeched, my mom ignored me when I yelled her name, but it makes me freak out at the idea of having a kid do that to me one day. I don't want to me the lady in line at Starbucks with a kid screaming MUM! at me. I'd rather have them scream my actual name, as I find it far less irritating then MUM/MOMMY.
It seems that I'm not alone in this, as actual mothers in Britain have owned up to hating the word Mum. Ladies, I applaud you.
The Alpha Mummy (*shudder*) blog for The Times has a brilliant post written by the women of MumsRock.com (*more shudders*).
They've listed 11 reasons why it's OK to despise the word, and they're actually pretty damn funny. Take for example reason number nine:
"When your children are screaming 'Mum' up the stairs at you,
it's really hard to put on stockings for date night and not feel like a
suburban hooker."
Reason number six:
"When you become a mum, your Google ads on Facebook suddenly change. You
now find you're invited to enjoy 'free samples for women over 35" or
urged to embrace the Oprah diet. Welcome to your new demographic."
And reason number one:
"When couples start to call each other "mum" and "dad", their sex life is now demonstrably a thing of the past."
Sorry, but even when childless couples refer to themselves as "Mummy" or "Daddy" with their cats I fidn it nauseating
I find it ironic that this list of funny reasons to hate the word Mum was written by MumsRock and publised on the Alpha Mummy blog...but never mind.
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