Dad, Daddy, Mom, Mommy? (children, adults, appropriate, mother)

[JrzDefector]

Mom and Pop. Though sometimes I call him Daddy when I'm teasing him or one of us is particularly distraught.

[HighFlyingBird]

Last night my 8 year old asked me when she is going to stop calling me mommy and start calling me mom. I told her when she wants to. She said "never! I will always call you mommy!" Thought for a second and followed up with "unless I am a teenager or adult, cause that would be so embarrassing ".

[WeHa]

Yupp. I don't use Daddy or Mommy much anymore. I also still call my closest Aunt, Auntie anything else would be weird.

[warren zee]

When they were living "mom and dad". Mommy and Daddy sound weird to me for anyone under 9. Or 8.

[joe moving]

Mom and Dad

on that note, right now my 5 year old calls us (wife and I) by our first name about half the time.

[saibot]

My parents are Mom and Dad. I stopped saying Mommy/Daddy at a very young age (but I also have much older siblings who had stopped using these terms, so that probably influenced me).

My kids call me Mama and my husband, Daddy.

This is just me, but I cringe slightly inside when adults call their mother Mommy. I don't have the same visceral reaction to Daddy.

No first names for parents! That would seem weird and I don't know anyone who does that.

[BOS2IAD]

When I was a kid --- called my mother "ma" and called my father "daddy"

When I got older --- called my mother "mother" and my father "dad"

When my brothers and I talked about our parents, in conversation our mother was "ma" and our father "dad".

[NewYorkiforniainHouston]

I've been calling my mom "Mommy" since.....forever. The last time I talked to her before she died in 2006, I said "I love you Mommy...."

i'm 50 and if she were still here (she'd be 73) i'd call her Mommy.

[The Dissenter]

I call my mother Ma. Her old Southern self is fine with it.

[rabbitsong]

I'm Southern. Mama is Mama and Daddy is Daddy. Daddy died in 2010, but I still refer to him as Daddy. They were Grandmommy & Granddaddy to our kids. The grandchildren are all 25-30, and they still call my mother "Grandmommy", and their spouses/girlfriends do, too! It's adorable!