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<p>Interesting, as I have never liked being known as “child’s name”'s Mom. I have my own name, my own identity outside of being a parent (though am also happy being a parent), and prefer to go by my own name. Nobody ever introduces me as just “husband’s name”'s wife without adding my first name after that, yet they introduce me as “child’s name”'s Mom with no first name following time and again. I had a friend of many years (who met me via a homeschool group; both our children are at MIT now and living in dorms next to one another) and she noted how her daughter asked her yesterday, “Did you call (my son’s name)'s mom yet?” I have a name other than “so and so’s mom”, but people don’t seem to care to use it much of the time. When I ask my son if he’s called a friend’s parent about something, I use the parent’s name “Mr. or Mrs. Whoever” if he knew them before college and usually their first name if he met them after going to college, though sometimes I’ll even use the first names of the parents whom he has grown up knowing since he is now older and it seems appropriate to make that switch and those parents are flexible with what they are called).</p>
<p>I am happy to be our son’s mom, but I am also happy to just be me, and prefer the acknowledgment of just being me to the acknowledgment of being our son’s mother, I guess.</p>