How do you address your parents, how do your children address you?

[marcoalza]

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Mum & Dad both ways except when my 21 year old son is asking for genuine father help, then he calls me Daddy.
Wouldn't want to change a thing.

 

[puddle jumper]

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My step mother I call here by her first name and my Dad Dad.

My kids call me and there mother, Mom and Dad and there grandparent Grandma/Grandpa including my step mother.

The only time first name comes up is when there talking about one or the other grandparent to distinguish the person from the other and thats like Grandpa(enter name here).Lots of elder respect in our family.

 

[oops!]

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my mothers name is mom......my fathers name is dad. i dont think they have given names.....just mom and dad.

i think my moms maiden name is even mom.

i have a best cousin one year older than me, at the age of about 25 he started calling his mother "ruthie" (her name is ruth) i never understood that and it always bothered me.

my aunts and uncles are called auntie......and uncle. yes auntie......

and they call me wardie...they are the only ones that get away with it......i think it shows love

 

[Fishing Dude too]

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I don't call them anything anymore, but refer to them as mom and dad. No one ever would have gotten his name ight anyhow, it was Erman. lol. My mom's name was one that everyone said one way she said another.

 

[aspeck]

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Mom and Dad, period. I don't understand the calling of parents by their given name either. My stepkids call me Art, biological call me Dad, and I look forward to the day they all call me Dad.

Most of the young 'uns around here call me Pastor Art. I cringe when my neighbors kids (ages 9 and under) call me Art because I was brought up to show more respect for adults than that. I get in trouble for calling other adults Mr. & Mrs., but I would rather be corrected to call them their first name than thinking I am a schmuck who never learned respect.

My kids will call adult acquaintences Mr. & Mrs. _______, they will call closer adults Uncle and Aunt first name, or Mr. & Miss First Name. I want my kids to show proper respect to whoever just as I was taught.

 

[TilliamWe]

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I call my parents Mom and Dad. Sometimes Mother and Father. (They usually respond to that one with "hello Son") In converstion with others, I call them Mom and Dad. My son calls us Mom and Dad. It is the way it should be, regardless of the century.

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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I'm probably one of the younger guys responding... Being of generation Y/ Millennial/echo boomer/80's Baby (which ever Wikipedia definition works best for you, I'm 29), I have and will always addressed Mom and Dad as Mom and Dad. My maternal grandparents are Nanny and Granky (had problems saying grampy when I was a little sprout). And my paternal grandmother is Mammy (my paternal grandfather died young, 6 years before I was born).

 

[rbh]

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Mom, Dad, MR, MRS, please pass the??, may I be excused from the table.

Manners were driven into us kids at an early age, they are still there I just do not use them as much as I should, slacking off in my old age of 40ish

 

[lakelover]

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I always called my parents Ma & Dad. Our kids (in their 20's) call us Mom & Dad, except once in a while when they are joking around they will sometimes call us by our first names. No harm done, because they know better than to do it in public or during more serious issues.

I've gotten so that whenever I meet new younger people, friends' kids etc., I prefer they address us as Mr., Mrs., Aunt, Uncle etc. and let them know that. I think it's important for young people today to get all the practice they can in being respectful to others, since they seem to learn so little of that outside the family.

 

[lakelover]

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kenmyfam, just wanted to note that I am in a "mixed" family - my wife is Canadian. We've always taken note that the Canadian side is much more formal with names and manners in general than the American side. Sometimes we (both sides) joke about it, but I think there's a lot to be said for that. It's been my experience that Canadian kids are way more respectful than kids here.

 

[kfa4303]

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I'm down South, so it was/is Mama and Papa at home, but more formal outside of the house, and everyone's parents, shoot everyone for that matter, is Mr./Mrs ALWAYS, without question. It was "Yes sir, no sir. Yes ma'am, no ma'am" when we were growing up.....or else!!!!! (don't ask me how I know). Shoot we even use Mr./Mrs. with peoples first names a lot of the time. As in, "Have you seen Ms.Maggie today?" I've know a lot of my friends folks for 20 + years and I still call them Mr./Mrs. Of course, we're not as formal as say, the Japanese. It's not uncommon for members of the same family to use the honorific "san" (i.e. Mr./Mrs.) with each other in the house. Can you imagine your Mom (mum) calling you "Mr. Smith" as she sent you off to school? That might be a bit much. I think it's creepy and weird when children address their parents by their first names. It seems sort of sad and cold. Of course, the real fun comes when you start talking about what you call your grand parents. That's where you'll hear all kinds of funny stuff. Down here you get lots of Mee-maw and Paw-paw with aunts/uncles, or siblings often called "Brother", or "Sister". All kinds of funny, old timey sayings. My family is German, so it was always Oma und Opa and all kinds of other weird stuff.

 

[puddle jumper]

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. My step kids call me Art, biological call me Dad, and I look forward to the day they all call me Dad.

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Don't feel down if they don't call you dad as long as they look at you like a parent. Knowing from experience with my step mother as I was growing up was she showed me a different out look on life that I would have not had if I had only lived with my biological mom. Its hard for a child to call some one mom or dad that is not and I think its out of respect for the real parent.

 

[Woodnaut]

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Mom and Dad for my parents.
Mom and Dad from my kid.
Mr. <last name here> from any other kid.

Same here, except it's Mr. <first name here> from other kids. (Not uncommon in the south)

Another peculiar form of etiquette in the south (and from a long time ago) is the "Mrs." prefix followed by the husbands first name. For example, my (cajun) grandpa's first name was Aladain. The folks around the farm called him "Mr. Aladain", and Grandma was referred to as "Mrs. Aladain". Now that's old school.

 

[LippCJ7]

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Mom and Dad for my Parents, my daughters call my parents and my ex wifes parents Grammy and Papa, my daughters boyfriends call me Sir, I had one boy call me by my first name at the front door, not sure if his nose ever recovered but the dent is still on my door, never to be heard from again, I think he got the message....


OH my Grandparents were Grandma and Pop

 

[kobe]

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My brothers daughter and only his daughter - his sons have manners calls her father by his first name and her mother as mom. drives me effin nuts! No respect!

 

[ngt]

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im 33, my son is 2 weeks old, so I cant say with that, but Im guessing he'll call me dad. I call my folks mom and dad. "pops" sounds disrespectful to me. I picture the cool kids in a 1980's movie yelling "look here pops" as they talk **** to some old drunk guy on the street. I want my dad to know hes respected and still thought of in the same way as when I was little, before I was a jackass teenager. I think it makes them happy and feel looked up to and loved, which is very important to me now.

 

[hostage]

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I try to refer to my parents by mom or dad/poppa, though I do run into a problem w/ my mom:

Me: Mom?
<pause>
Me: Mom?
<pause>
Me: Mom!
<pause>
Me: Helen!
Mom: Yes?

 

[ngt]

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I try to refer to my parents by mom or dad/poppa, though I do run into a problem w/ my mom:

Me: Mom?
<pause>
Me: Mom?
<pause>
Me: Mom!
<pause>
Me: Helen!
Mom: Yes?

reminds me of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

 

[dingbat]

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I call my parents Mom and Dad. The in-laws, both sides, are called by their first names by request.

The kids call us Mom and Dad or Madre and Padre (3-5th year Spanish students)

 

[DECK SWABBER 58]

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Born in 1958 it was Mom and Dad. When introducing them it was "this is my Mom, Ruth or my Dad, Bob.
Grandparents were Grandpa and Grandma. When addressing friends parents it was Mr. or Mrs.