Mommy and Daddy - Page 2

[Cx(mummy to be)]

As a child it was always mum and dad. In my later teens i reverted back to mummy

[ProtoLawyer]

Anyone's kids just start with "mom" and "dad" (once they had the language skills to do so)?

[Doodlebugsmom]

Originally Posted by crayolaab

I'm 25 and I call my parents daddy and mama still

Unless I'm annoyed, then it's mooooooom and daaaaad

I hear ya! I'm 33 and my sister is 34. We both still call our parents "Mommy and Daddy". We do it in reference to them, and call them that when speaking to them.

[BedHead]

My boys call me 'mom'. My daughter (the youngest) still calls me mommy sometimes, or mom. none of them call me by my first name - I wouldn't like that.

They all call dh by his first name - he's their stepdad.

[soygurl]

Originally Posted by crayolaab

I'm 25 and I call my parents daddy and mama still

Unless I'm annoyed, then it's mooooooom and daaaaad

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Originally Posted by enkmom

My daughter called me mom all through her teen years, then she went to college in August. Now she calls me Mama - and I love it! It's her little way of letting me know she misses me, too.

That's I did too! Mama just seems so much more endereing than mom or mommy. My mom and I have several special pet names for each other too.

My dad prefers I call him daddy and I mostly still call him that for him, but somehow it just feels right also. Probably because that's how he refers to himself (often in the 3rd person he's such a cute old man!). It REALLY makes me mad when I call him daddy on the phone and friends overhear me and say some snarky remark about how that's weird or creepy that I call him daddy. They seem to take it as some sort of dirty sexual reference! :

When referring to my parents to other people I say mom and dad almost exclusively

[laoxinat]

I have always preferred mama. Probably because of memories of spoiled neighbors I associate with a bit of brattiness...When my two first were teens I became Mim .

[Dar]

Originally Posted by ProtoLawyer

Anyone's kids just start with "mom" and "dad" (once they had the language skills to do so)?

Mine did. I don't really like Mommy much... it just has sort of a whiny sound to it.

I could probably get Rain to call me Mummy, though, or Mum - since she is a regular viewer of BBC now it sometimes spills over into real life. The other day I dropped her off to do some shopping downtown and expressed concern that she'd be too cold without a hat (since it was, like, 20 out) and she told me she's be fine, and, "If I get cold I'll just duck into a shop." We generally do not duck into shops here in Kansas... not sure about the rest of the country.

dar

[creeves1971]

My 11 and 13 yo girls still call me mommy anywhere and everywhere. 9 yo boy calls me mommy at home, but says mama in public. It's a long standing joke in our family that they can NOT call me mom. It's just too sad...it would mean their completely grown But I do know it's coming...sob, sob...

[mtiger]

When I do something special for my boy (16), it's "I luuuuv you MOMMY!" Most of the time, it's Madre. And I'm cool with that. 'Cause now I call him Mijo.

My daughter? Mom. And that's fine, too.

[Breeder]

I don't like "Mom", it has a snotty teenaged sound to it. Maybe because my sister's favorite phrase for about 5 years was "God MOM!"

My son calls me Mama or Mommy, he called me mom once and DH said, "Oh, Mama doesn't really like that name." He hasn't call me that since (so far we'll see in about ten years)

I called my mother, mommy then mom and now that I am a mother, her name is Nanna, my dad was Daddy or dad and is now Papaw. I call them that and my sisters call them that as well as DH and of course DS! It's just their names thanks to my little man.

[spero]

Originally Posted by mtiger

When I do something special for my boy (16), it's "I luuuuv you MOMMY!"

I get that, too.

[alima]

Originally Posted by ProtoLawyer

Anyone's kids just start with "mom" and "dad" (once they had the language skills to do so)?

My ds was never a "mommy" type kid. I've been mom, most of the time, except when he's feeling extra-snuggly and needy. He hasn't called me mommy in years, tho, can't even remember the last time.

I never had any preference for what he called me, he's just not to call me by my first name (very disrespectful in Irish culture, I don't mind so much, but it feels really, really weird. I called my dad by his first name once when I was a kid, by accident, and was so shocked I grounded myself in my room )

I called my mother Mum (just mom with an Irish accent), I don't remember ever called her mummy.

Occasionally ds calls me mommandant (from the Simpsons), I get a kick out of that.

[talk de jour]

I've always called my parents Mommy and Daddy, and always will.

On the flip side, my little brother started calling my parents Mother and Father once he entered adolescence.

[mother_sunshine]

Dd (11) calls us Mama and Daddy. I can't imagine her calling us anything else.

When she's talking to someone else about us though she says Mom and Dad.

[Arduinna]

dd 18 still calls us mommy and daddy

[debbieh]

My DDs are 32 yo and 17 yo, and my DS is 29 yo. All of them call me momma. DD1 calls my dh daddy, but the other two call him dad.
Funny thing is that I am 54 yo and still call my mom and dad "mommy and daddy". They said that out of all four of their kids, I'm the only one who does this....and they love it.

[isra1986]

I am 21 and my 20 year old sister and I still call our parents mommy and daddy. My 8 year old brother calls our mother mom and his dad is dad.