Do you call your parents mommy and daddy?

[december]

Some people can express an opinion without being offensive. It is a useful skill to have.

Here, mama and daddy are not baby talk words. They are words almost all of us use for our parents. Nothing odd about it. Mommy would be unusual here (don't think I know anyone who uses it), but I don't see a problem with people who do. Mother and Father would be unusual, and I rarely hear anyone use mom and dad.

Of course, I also have a Big Mama (my 90 year old grandmother).

 

[MomRN]

I call my mom... mom. Or Sally. My dad...dad. Same for my husband.

My 4 yr old is starting to switch from momma/mommy to mom and dadda/daddy to dad.

My dad called his mom "mother"

Maybe it's a regional/generational thing. I also don't hear adults say mommy or daddy very often.

 

[auntie]

Some people can express an opinion without being offensive. It is a useful skill to have.

Here, mama and daddy are not baby talk words. They are words almost all of us use for our parents. Nothing odd about it. Mommy would be unusual here (don't think I know anyone who uses it), but I don't see a problem with people who do. Mother and Father would be unusual, and I rarely hear anyone use mom and dad.

Of course, I also have a Big Mama (my 90 year old grandmother).

I agree.
My mother..(or is that mama, mommy, mami, or momma ) used to say.."if you don't have anything nice to say..then say nothing at all."

 

[Polyluvr]

I call my mom- mom; my dad though is still Daddy.

 

[dyna]

When my 60 yr old brother stops calling parents mommy an daddy I will too...

 

[mom2boys77]

Exactly the same for me (except I'm from NJ) My boys do the same thing except my oldest who calls me Mommy when he wants something

As with a few other posters here...

When speaking with my sister about my parents, we address them as "mommy" and "daddy".

When speaking with anyone else about them, I refer to them as "my mother" or "my father".

When speaking to them I address them as "mom" or "dad".

For the record, I am a born and bread New Yorker.

 

[Hutchy]

I'm 25 and still call my parent's Mama and Daddy. Always will. My Mama owns a florist and when I'm in town I work with her and if someone calls and asks for her I'll said "Mama, phone!!!!" I don't think twice about the customer hearing that! Of course I am a southern girl so they probably don't think to much about it! lol I never did call her Mommy though that I can remember, always Mama.

My parents always called their parents Mama and Daddy so I've never thought twice about it.

And I'm very close to my Daddy, it BROKE his heart when I married a guy in the military and moved away. When my husband is deployed he calls me at least 3 nights a week to check on me before he goes to bed. No matter how old I get I'll always be his little girl.

 

[mothermouse]

my dh has a friend that still calls hiss mother mommy, he's over 40

 

[Angelhalo]

I agree.
My mother..(or is that mama, mommy, mami, or momma ) used to say.."if you don't have anything nice to say..then say nothing at all."

this would be a pretty dead message board.......

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

We have always called our parents Mommy and Daddy. I have never thought of it as odd or unusual and no one has ever said anything about it being odd.

My Daddy is 64 and still refers to his long passed parents as Mommy and Daddy.

Sometimes I will call them their "grandparent" names (Mam and Pop) or Mom and Dad. We also call our grandparents "Grandmommy and Granddaddy". To each their own.

 

[LovableGluttons]

Mine are Mom and Dad.

I get skeeved when I hear a young woman married to an elderly gent call him "Daddy". Don't know why it creeps me out, but it does.

 

[jdisnut]

On second thought, never mind.

 

[C.Ann]

Somewhere along the line I changed from "mommy" to Mom - (I'm soon to be 61), but "Daddy"' was always "Daddy" right up until the day he died in 1987.. When I talk about him now I still refer to him as "Daddy".. I was definitely a "Daddy's girl" - all my life..

I don't see anything odd about this at all..

 

[mickyzzzzz05]

Mom and Dad. I don't remember ever calling them mommy and daddy so I must have been pretty young when I did.

 

[mousebymarriage]

I always called my parents mom and dad (maybe when I was little it was mommy and daddy but, I honestly don't remember).
Anyway, DH calls his mother mom(or Ma) when he's speaking to her but, when he is speaking to his brother or other relatives about her he says mommy, his brother does the same thing. When their father was alive it was the same thing, he was dad face to face but in conversations with each other or relatives he was daddy. DH is 40 and his brother is 36. I honestly think there is nothing wrong with it and besides what other people call their parents is none of my business.

 

[Dizmom0923]

Hi...I am 36 and for me its Daddy and mom or momma. I really don't care if others don't like it, it is my preference!

 

[disykat]

Some people can express an opinion without being offensive. It is a useful skill to have.

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I suppose it would be, but I haven't seen it here yet. Just a lot of judgemental nastiness from posters jabbing at each other because someone's opinions don't match theirs.

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

And I don't see anything "disturbing" about it. I love my parents and we're very close, my Mama calls me 'Baby' sometimes still, and like I said, I'm 21.

My parents still call me baby, too! It's just a term of endearment, not that they see me as a baby of course.

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

I was definitely a "Daddy's girl" - all my life..

I don't see anything odd about this at all.. [/B]

I'm a daddy's girl too. I'm an only child so it was easy for me to snag that title. lol

 

[maslex]

Ma (or mother or Jean, whatever she finally answers to LOL and Dad here)

I do have neighbors that called their father "daddy" up until the day he died (still refer to him as daddy till this day....they are 37 & 40 now) but call their mom mom.