This has become standard speak in the US.
On the tv, written, or face to face.

To my way of thinking, what you call your mother to her face is your business. Be it mom, mum, mama etc.

When talking about the person who gave birth to you the word is MOTHER. Not, "Hi Shirley, have you met my mom?" It's, have you met my MOTHER! She's mom to you, she is your MOTHER to Shirley.

Mom this, Mom that. From news shows (infotainment in the US) to tv shows of all kinds, everybody uses Mom in every context when the proper word is MOTHER!

Child speak & the continuing dumbing down of society.

It makes my blood boil & my jaw clench.
(barrycounty, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 19:52, 3 replies)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 23:47, closed)

walmart's mom
One of the weirdest uses of "Mom" I've seen as a non-proper (yet somehow still capitalized) noun is in my Walmart training materials at work. They talk all the time about how they want to "make it easy for Mom to find our bargains" and "help Mom decide what she needs" and, even that "Mom will love what we have to offer." It's so casual, yet so creepy.
(AlfishKK, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 2:17, closed)

my partner calls his mother 'Mom'
but he aint American, ho no.

He's from the black country. Isn't it a dialectual thing for that area?

Always sounded weird to me. Bloody yamyams
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 5:22, closed)