What do your kids call you/what do you call your parents?

Question

Do your kids still call you Mommy/Daddy? Or are you Mom/Dad now? My daughters call me Mom and my son calls me Momma. If you're not a parent, what do you call your parents? I'm just curious.

BQ: Today I heard someone call their mother by their mom's first name and while I know it happens, I don't really like that. What do you think of kids calling parents by their first names?

Answer 1

My daughter is 20months. She calls me "Mom", "Mama", "Mummy" or "Mamamamamama"...whatever comes out, I answer. ;-) She calls my husband "Dad" or "Dada".



I call my parents Mom and Dad. My dad still signs his cards "Daddy" and sometimes I'll call him that. My mother's nickname (from when I was 12) is "Bones" because one summer she looked anorexic. (She wasn't - she owned and was a cook for a restaurant and simply lost any weight because of the work and stress.) The nickname stuck, and we still call her that sometimes.



Not a fan of the first-name basis thing, either.



I would like my daughter's friends to call me "Mrs Jones." Unless the friends are closer to our family (i.e. my friends' children) - they call me "Auntie."

Answer 2

My oldest son (15) calls me by my first name.

My next son (12) calls me Dad or my first name.

My daughter (8) calls me Daddy (her first word).



For some reason I had a problem calling my parents Mom and Dad, so I was happy when my brother had kids and I could call them Grandma and Grandpa.

Answer 3

I call my parents Mum and Dad. If I'm trying to get their attention I might use their first name and sometimes I might say Mummy or Daddy. But honestly, daddy sounds a bit creepy coming out of a 19 year old.



I only know one guy that regularly uses his parents first names (never heard him say mum or dad) and it's kind of weird. He's like "Oh I need to ring Sue" or whatever. It's nice that they all have that mutual level of respect that he doesn't NEED to call them something special. But at the same time it would be kind of confusing seeing a toddler or young child call their parents by their first names.

Answer 4

Mommy most of the time. Mama when she is being a little suck and Mom when she's annoyed with me. The occasional Maaw when she's being silly. Always daddy.

Grandma First Name, grandpa first name

My daughter knows are first names and occasionally uses them, especailly when we're out with family and she hears us being called by our first name. It doesn't bother me, she knows I like mommy better but it's a silly thing to be concerned with.

Answer 5

My mother was called Mom by my oldest brother, but Momma by my older sister and myself. It is what we grew up using and never found a need to change. Daddy was Daddy until he died and even his flowers said "Daddy". We just adored him so much and he had a great sense of humor about it that we never changed as adults. I would have broken both their hearts if I had called them by their given names. That is just so disrespectful and cold to me. My daughters call me Mom unless something bad happens and then it is Momma. My husband has always been Dad. Their husbands call us by our first names because they still have their mothers living and who deserve that family title.

Answer 6

For the most part, he calls me mommy. Although, he hears my husband calling me Love and Roo a lot, so he's also used those nicknames occasionally. He's never called me by my first name.





I always called my mom mom or ma'am.









Would i be okay if my son started calling my by first name? Eh...it wouldn't be ideal, but i wouldn't throw a hissy fit about it. I would tell him that i prefer mom.



If other parents choose to go on a first name basis with their children...yippy skippy for them. That's their business.

Answer 7

i call my mother mum.my father is dad (or to be more exact,when im not on here,w***er - i am estranged from him).my son calls us mummy and daddy,although he also calls me mum,mom and mommy (thank you P&F!).he has also taken to calling his dad 'muuaddy' as if he is saying mummy first and then realises that he isn't talking to mummy.we live in the UK#



BQ:i dated someone almost a decade now (wow,that makes me sound so old,i'm only 27!) who called his mum and dad by their first name.i was taken aback at first (i had never known it) - they said that their children had names and these names weren't son/daughter so why should their children call them mum or dad?my boyfriend actually called his dad 'old gif'

Answer 8

One calls me mom and the other calls me mama. My husband is just dad.



I think that calling a parent by their name is rude. My sister's friend lets her daughter call her by her name, so when they met my son as a baby they tried teaching him to call me by my name. Some people just don't understand that it isn't acceptable to others.



Around here children call people mr. or miss so and so. I am mom to my children because I am not their friend or their peer. I am their mom. We give our doctors the same respect by calling them Dr. Maybe I'm just weird...

Answer 9

I'm 20. I call my mum, mum and mummy. My dad isn't alive.

My husband calls his mum and dad, mum and daddy mostly but sometimes he'll say mummy or daddy. I thinks it's really cute. :)



Our son is almost two and a half. I am mum (he can't say mummy) and dad is daddy.



I think calling your parents by their first name is disrespectful. I don't like it either. A couple of times I have called my husband by his first name and our son has repeated it. We've had to tell him, "It's daddy to you."

Answer 10

I'm mom when she is mad mommy when she wants something and mama on a regular day my hubby Is daddy. My daughter is very spoiled so at the mall we are usually Alyssa and Ryan. It says Morgan because I use my sisters account. My mom is nena my dad is papa Ryan's mom is Grammy his dad is poppy.

Answer 11

I would NEVER be allowed to call my parents by their first names - that is rude! I call my mother Mammy and father is Dad or Daddy sometimes. If I am being scolded or punished I know to call him Yes Sir or No Sir and do that when I want to be extra polite as well as I think fathers do deserve respect from their daughters

Answer 12

My kids call me 'Mummy'; occasionally 'Mum' from the older two.



BQ: Grown kids? Normal. I call my parents by their first names when I refer to them. I have since I was in college. But when I speak to them, I still call them Mom and Dad.

Answer 13

my kids used to call me mummy but now they are getting bigger they just say mum.. I called my parents mummy and daddy until I grew up then mum and dad, my kids dad lives in norway and barely talks to them, when we lived there they called him pappa which is the norwegian term, far is what the older kids call dad in norway, but since coming back here to england they have called him daddy.

Answer 14

I'm "mommy", daddy is "daddy". Both of our grandmas are "grandma." My kids very rarely see my mom, so there isn't confusion, when we say grandma we usually mean my husbands dad. My dad is "papaw" and his dad is "grandpa." Pretty basic :)

Answer 15

my son calls me mummy for the most part, he has picked up my actual name from his dad though, so some times he calls me bella, he does it just to be a smartypants though I'm not really fond of it, my daughter doesn't really talk yet, but I think she's starting to call me maa.

Answer 16

My kids say "mommy".



I call my parents "mom" and "dad".

Answer 17

I'm in a lesbian relationship so our children have two mums. My name is Rosario, but my friends and my girlfriend calls me Rosa.



My step-daughter (16) calls me Rosa. I like this because we are close in age - I am 12 years older than her and 10 years younger than her mother - and we are also close friends. She calls her mother "Ma".



My step-son (8) and my biological son (6) call me Rosie. My son called me Mummy but since my step-son always called me Rosie, he started it too. He will get too old to call me Mummy and, in my opinion, Mum seems somewhat impersonal. Rosie brings him closer to me - he isn't calling me by my full name but by a nickname. It also makes me closer to my step-son. Calling me step-mum would be terribly impersonal. My step-son calls his mum "Mum" and my son calls his step-mum by her first name.



My daughter (3) calls me Mimi. She calls her father Daddy. She calls my partner Mama.



My mother never lived with me but came for holidays. She was always called "Mother" affectionately. I called my father Pa or Paw. My brothers called their mothers Mum or Mam.

Answer 18

Mam and Dad.

Answer 19

they call me by my name, "dad" i call my mother by her name "mom'

Answer 20

my kid is 4 and addresses me as Colonel or Sir. i think i've earned it.