Mom and Dad, except for the “'EY MA!”/“WHAT?” when I’m shouting across the house for my mother. Can you feel the love?
22
Maryland
We were raise to call them Mama and Papa, but as soon as that started sounding babyish we switched to Mom and Pop.
Pop is always “Pop” but Mom is sometimes “Ma”.
Female, MidAtlantic states.
Mom and Dad
I’m from Michigan.
Mama and Daddy
Male
32
Northwestern Louisiana
Gemini
Mom and Daddy
female
37
California
Mom is “Betty.” Dad was “Arch.” Using first names was their idea. I hated it.
I am female, 58 years old, in Oklahoma.
Mom and his first name (no idea why, it’s just evolved)
Female
Midwest
Mum and Dad
Female
32
New Zealand
Mom (sometimes Momma) and Dad (frequently Daddoo, sometime Daddy. In greeting, it’s usually Momma & Daddoo. After that, it’s Mom & Dad.)
Female, 28
West Coast
My mom calls her parents Mother and Daddy, or by their first names. My dad calls/ed his parents Mom & Dad.
Heh. What don’t I call my parents?
It depends on the situation. Usually it’s Mom and Dad, but it might switch to Mama and Daddy at any time. Occasionally Mommy and Daddy slips out, especially if I’ve been talking to my older sister and then have to refer to them in the third person. I usually call my dad “Daddy” if I’m asking him a question, and if I want him to buy me a book or a milkshake, then it’s Big Daddy Kitten, because I am not above using childhood nicknames to get what I want. (And because, well, he’s my daddy and I love him. If it makes him smile, then I’ll do it.) My mom occasionally calls my dad “Papa.” It’s a little weird.
My fourth grade teacher thought I was mildly retarded because I still called my parents Mama and Daddy. Pssst, old biddy.
Female, 21
SW Wisconsin
Eleanor of Aquitaine, when I was in kindergarten or 1st grade, my dad told me that I was too old to call my mom “mommy”. Looking back, I think he was probably a bit premature but not too much. He also told me that it was OK to call dads “daddy” no matter how old you are. I’d guess your son will change his name for you soon enough. I wouldn’t push him.
**pinkfreud, ** I grew up in Tulsa too and I never heard any of my friends call their parents by their first names (except sarcastically). And Arch and Betty?? 
The jokes are just too easy.
Mom & Dad
Male
36
MA, grew up in ME
I call my mother by her first name; Velma. I’m 44. My father is deceased.
My 15 year old daughter is going through phases.
For the longest time she called me Faja (with a soft “J”). Lately she’s been calling me “Father”. :rolleyes: It mostly cracks me up.
My older daughter calls me Diddy, and she was recently very excited to realize that my fiancee’s name is Kathy, and she’ll be able to call us “Diddy and Kitty”.
Funny kids.
Ma and Papa, although lately I’ve taken to calling them the Aged Parents (yes, to their faces, and yes, they appreciate the humour).
Male, 25, parents in India.
Mom & Dad. When I was little, it was Mommy and Dad. Dad wouldn’t let me call him Daddy because I pronounced it incorrectly. I was four or five at the time.
Chicago area.
Mom (or Ma) and Pa, formerly Mama and Papa
My father insisted that my sisters and I call his parents by the Italian titles Nonna and Nonno, which I’m not sure my they appreciated. My cousins called our grandparents Mama and Papa.
I’m pretty sure that my father wants to be called Nonno by his grandchildren, too.
female, 33, Rhode Island
Likewise, though “Mom” gets shortened to “Ma” on occasion.
Ann and Jonathan. 30 year old male, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area.
Mum & Dad
Australian male, 41
Mama and Daddy, which is what my mother called hers as well. My father called his parents Muh & Dah (which I understand is common in Ireland but for him it was what he called them as babies and it just stuck). All of the old people in my family (the ones born in the 19th century) may refer to “my daddy said so & so” but they all called him ‘Papa’, then in the mid20th century the family almost as one switched to referring to fathers as Daddy and reserving Papa for grandfathers. I’m not sure how common this was.
I’ve never known a southerner who referred to their parents as Ma and Pa. I’m sure they exist, but Mama is pretty much timeless and fathers have usually been Papa or Daddy (with the occasional wildcards of Mother and Father, but that’s rare everywhere I think).