How do you refer to your parents?

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1. After i turned 50 i refer to them by their first names but still call them mom and dad to their faces.

2. Mom and dad as long as I can remember.

3. Mom and dad, except when I’m taking to my roommate and then I use their first names. No idea why, I think I did it once as a joke and it stuck.

4. Ma and dad

5. Mom or ma, and dad

6. Dad and “the incubator”

7. I grew up bilingual, so I call my parents the Hebrew equivalents of Mom and Dad (Ima and Abba).

8. I usually call my parents Mom and Dad. Once in a while I will call them by their first names when joking around with them.

   When I talk about my parents with my siblings or one of my parents I refer to them as Mommy or Daddy.

9. Patron of Blood and Matron of Brood. Because I’m an adult who believes in showing some fucking respect.

10. In my 30s I started referring to them by their first names, when I discussed them with others. I didn’t really have occasion anymore to refer to them personally, one-on-one, by any names (didn’t really address them in a way that required using their names).

11. Mom and Dad

12. Im not american but Mama and Papi 🥺

13. I grew up in New Jersey. So did my mother. When I want to get her attenation affectionately I say “hey ma!” or if I’m referring to her and not shouting at her I might say “my ma went up the mall with her friend.” Ma is always said forcefully.

    she used to look at her mother and shout “hey ma!” as well. It’s generational and warm. Only seems rude and cold at a distance.

14. Mamma and Daddy. My dad called his Mother and Daddy. My mom the same as me.

15. Louisiana- mom and dad.

16. I call my dad “sir” and “father” ironically. It sounds cold, but we’re close.

17. Mama

    His first name, “my biological father”, sperm donor, or depending how I’m feeling about him at the moment a handful of other colorful names

18. Ibu, and ayah. My parents are malay.

19. I call them ‘mom’ and ‘dad’, but I’ll use their first names when I’m talking to relatives sometimes.

    If I’m talking to a stranger or an employee, I’ll say ‘father.’

    “My father just replaced the battery in the car, so it should be fine.” That sort of thing.

20. I find it strange when adults call their parents mommy and daddy

21. mom, mama, or ma

22. American, Mom- sometimes still affectionately call her Mommy, she is from NY
    Dad- haven’t been allowed to call him Daddy since my 4th birthday, military man who sometimes demands to be called “sir” he grew up in MI but the family is from AL

23. Mom and Dad. Grew up in Atlanta.

24. I call my father “Popsicle”. He he likes it, says it makes him sound cool – dad jokes forever!!!