Short Story- rate please?

marite
Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:06:11 +0000

You are right that using mother and father shows distance; it also shows a more adult relationship. The last line conveys that perfectly. That’s fine to refer to the mother sometimes as mamma and sometimes as mother. But you also have mummy, mum and mom. The father is sometimes the father, papa, dad and daddy. Think about how you refer to your own parents. Are there so many different ways or just a couple?