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Lately I've been reading books set on the east coast with very wealthy families and the adult children address their parents as "Daddy" and "Mama" or even "Mommy" sometimes.
DH and I had affluent parents and agree we quit that baby talk as young children.
It was "Dad" and "Mom" from then on. No Sir or Ma'am either. He is from NYC suburb and I'm from So Cal.
I call them Mom and Dad. I've had adult coworkers who refer to their parents as Mommy and Daddy. I always find it strange, especially to refer to them in such a way in conversation.
These aren't people who grew up in very wealthy families, but it does seem like they were spoiled by their parents.
Ma and Pop. Actually, my father and I had a running joke where he would call me Melvin then I would call him Jake or vice versa. Neither of is named Jake or Melvin. That went on from when I was a yound man until his death. OP, thanks for the topic. It brought back some nice memories.
Mummy and Daddy. We were English, so we pronounced Mommy the british way. In conversation, I wouldn’t have said, “Mummy said...”, I would have said, “My mother said...”
My mother stopped allowing me to call her mommy when I turned 5, from then on it was either mother or mom. My dad I called him Daddy till my teens, then it was Dad.
Always Mama and Daddy, until the grandkids arrived. Then we all started calling them Mammy and Pap, like they wanted to grandyoungsters to call them. After Mama died and I was visiting my dad several times a day, I went back to Daddy.
The OP said no sir or ma'am. If I EVER answered either parents without a sir or ma'am, or any other adult, Daddy would stop us right there and all he had to say was "what did you say to us?" and my brother and I corrected ourselves very quickly.
My kids call me pop or dad, and their mom ... mom.
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