So, I was fascinated by this new term I learned the other day on the internet. Hope you are better acquainted with it than I was- Almond Mom. I didn’t know even moms had categories and tag lines! To my bewilderment, when I probed Google Baba, he offered me more than twenty varieties of Moms. It was like trying to order a decent coffee in a fancy cafe.
I prepared a list of all the types of ‘moms’ I could find anywhere and everywhere and here it is-
- Fancy Mom
- Pajama Mom
- Coffee Mom
- Photo Taking Mom/Selfie Mom (in present day context)
- Hovering Mom
- Peter Pan Mom
- Loner Mom
- Super Friendly Mom
- Entourage Mom
- Perfectionist Mom
- Unpredictable Mom
- Best Friend Mom
- Complete Mom
- Me First Mom
- Crunchy Mom
- Dolphin Mom
- Panda Mom
- Type A Mom
- Jellyfish Mom
- Dragon Mom
- Unicorn Mom
- Tiger Mom
- Super Mom
- Umbrella Mom
- Silky Mom
- Scrunchy Mom
- Helicopter Mom
- Intentional Mom
- Fitness Mom
- Influencer Mom (Momfluencer)
- Competitive Mom
- Wine Mom
Well, the list is exhaustive and I’m sure I must have missed a few ‘moms’ here and there. Though most of the epithets are self-explanatory, some are really innovative and require a bit of brain racking.
Let’s start with ‘Almond Mom’ which is the latest one and it seems as if the social media is bursting to its seams trolling and targeting the said type of moms. The origin of the phrase can be traced to an old video that surfaced on the internet where supermodel Gigi Hadid’s mom, Yolanda is heard telling her daughter to eat a couple of almonds and ‘chew them well’ in response to her daughter’s complaint that she’s not feeling well and has had only half an almond since morning. The mother’s response came under scanner as she’s supposedly misguiding her daughter about dietary advice and can be considered as fatphobic.
There are two contrasting varieties of moms- Fancy mom and Pajama mom- depending upon their appearance. A Fancy mom is always dressed to the T whereas a Pajama mom can hardly be bothered about what she’s wearing. The Photo Mom, read Selfie mom these days, is the one whose day begins with clicking pictures of her child and ends with the same. Her child cannot take a single step without getting caught in the shutterbug!
I recently watched a K-drama where the mother of a teenage girl is a social media influencer and her opinion matters to the extent that even the school authorities and private tution academies follow her on her social media account to check what she posts or uploads. That’s a Momfluencer for you!
The Crunchy mom spares no expense in being environmentally, healthy and socially conscious. She would go to the other end of the town to procure organic foods and natural products for her kids. A Silky mom goes a step further and would use ‘science, technology and medicine to aid her in healthy parenting’. A Scrunchy mom is an amalgamation of Crunchy and Silky mom. A Helicopter mom and a Hover mom are one and the same thing. She believes in over parenting and being over-protective of her child.
I guess I won’t be able to explain all the varieties in my short treatise but one thing that I can vouch for is that a ‘Perfect Mom’ is nothing but a fallacy as parenting is more or less intuitive and expermintative. Psychologists and behavioural scientists might classify you into N-number of categories/classes; at the end of the day, you are a MOM- an indispensable variety on this planet.
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