What did you call your parents?

[Graybeard]

Do the terms we use to reference our parents depend on ones geographical region, ethnic background, social status? What words did/do you use?

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	Mom and Dad
	2 (40%)
	Mommy and Daddy
	0 (0%)
	Mom and Pop/Pops
	1 (20%)
	Momma and Poppa
	0 (0%)
	Ma and Pa
	0 (0%)
	Mother and Father
	0 (0%)
	Mater and Pater
	0 (0%)
	Sir and Ma'am
	0 (0%)
	By their first names
	1 (20%)
	Other
	1 (20%)
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[pink-o]

1. I started calling my parents by their 1st names when I was a teenager

Cuz I thought it made me more sophisticated. Dumb. But they were cool, so I never modified it.

[annabanana]

3. TRIED calling them by their first names but Mom said

ANYBODY can call me that. You are one of only three people on Earth who can call me Mom.

I had to admit she had a point.

[oregonjen]

12. That is exactly what I have said to my children!

[annabanana]

2. Mommy & Daddy when I was little.. Then Mom & Dad. . .n/t

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. Mom & Sir

very rare occasions did I call him Dad.

[TheMadMonk]

5. The "B" word. ONCE! Rough side of the hairbrush HURTS! /nt

[pipi_k]

6. Weird family dynamics

I called my mother "ma" but I referred to my father as "dad".

IOW, I never actually addressed him.

We kids pretty much waited for him to speak to us first

That's how it is in a family where there's an alcoholic. You never initiate contact or conversation because you never know what sort of mood the alcoholic will be in.

[mythology]

7. In my case I was forced to call my ex-dad

father. He told my mom I had to call him that, but for all he cared I could call her bitch. For some strange reason I don't call him anything any more. I fired him from a job he was supremely unqualified for i.e. being a parent. He insisted on that because he thought it imparted more respect because he was too stupid to realize that respect has to be earned, not demanded.

I've always called my mom as mom.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. well..

My parents had me address them in Japanese, chichi=father haha=mother. I did occasionally call them mom or dad. Halmoni I used for my grandmother. She was Korean.

[hrmjustin]

9. Mommy and dada

[Systematic Chaos]

10. My dad died when I was 6. As for my mom...

...by my early teens, many of the things I called her behind her back would only get my post hidden.

And I'm sad to say it was all pretty much justified.

[Denninmi]

11. I know what I should have called him...

Fucking Pervert.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.