I call my mother “Mommy” but my father thinks this is wrong. Only little kids call their mother “Mommy”, and I’m 27. The appropriate name for a mother of adult children, in his opinion, is “Mama” or “Mom” or whatever the grandkids call her. Personally, I think this is a strange rule. My mother does not look like a “Mama” or “Mom”. She looks like a “Mommy”. And I’m not about to start calling her “Noni” just because my neices and nephew do. That’s crazy.
But for some reason, he has no problem with me calling him “Daddy”. I’m glad because he does not look like a “Pop”, “Dad”, “Papa”, or “Pa”. He looks like a “Daddy”.
What do you call your parents, and did your names for them change when you became an adult?
I’ve always address my mother as mama (more or less mommy, in English), but my father has always been just plain ol’ Ba, which in English would be the equivalent of Dad, with a capital D, just one step below Father.
I called my parents Mom and Dad from about junior high school on. I like it when my married daughter calls me Daddy, but she usually calls me Dad. My son calls my wife and I Mom and Dad.
I call my mom mom, unless I’m feeling particularly precious, then I call her mommy. I call my mother-in-law by her first name, which feels weird to me, but calling her mom, ma’am, or Ms. Saunders would be even weirder.
I’m pretty unoriginal. My mom is just “Mom” and my dad is just “Dad”. I do have some weird names for my grandparents, though. My maternal grandmother (may she rest in peace) I called “Mimi” and my paternal grandmother I call “Mum-Mum”. Both my maternal and paternal grandfathers I call “Pop-Pop”, so to disambiguate I would say “Pop-Pop Harold” and “Pop-Pop Fred” (may he also rest in peace).
I use the Korean word for “Mom” when addressing my mom. And I call my father “Dad” in English. I used to call my father “Dad” in Korean when I was a kid, but I’ve stopped doing that now.
Ma is usually said when I am speaking to her directly - when I am talking about my parents to someone else, I say “my mom” and “my dad”. Unless it’s my brother, then I just say Mom and Dad.
Oh, I do call my mom Mumsy and Mother when I’m joking around or faking a British accent. (Apologies to anyone who actually has this particular accent, as I really suck at it :D)
I have always just called my parents mom and dad. I do not ever remember calling them mommy and daddy. I am sure that I did when I was really young, but not in my memory.
I also call most of my friends parents mom and dad. I will refer to them as mom (insert surname) or dad (insert surname). They also do the same with my parents.
