Although you may adore and worship your
mother, it's not grammatically correct to capitalize the term when it is
preceded by a pronoun. Whenever you see the words "my, your, his,
her" before the word mother, don't cap. For example, "My mother and I
love musicals."
When should you capitalize the term? When
it's a proper noun. "My mom" needs to go in lowercase, but if I want
to talk about what Mom wore to the theater, I am using the word as a noun.
"Mom" (or "Mother") is a substitute for her name. It's a
name that I give her (e.g., "I always spend Easter with Mom and we have a
great time." But "I always spend Easter with my mother" does not
warrant capitals.
The same is, of course, true for the term
father or dad — my father, your father, his father, her father, but "I've
missed Dad every day since he passed away twenty long years ago."
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