Poll: What do you call your parents?

[w9496]

I call them mom and dad when I'm speaking to them directly. I refer to them as mother and father when they aren't present. I don't know why I do, but hey, does I really need a reason?

 

[Kailow Krow]

s the "parental Units" Other wise it's just Mom and dad or Papa

 

[Ambitiousmould]

Usually 'Mum' and 'Dad', although occasionally I'll say 'Mam' because it's a dialect thing (I'm from Yorkshire).

Obviously I'll call my dad names, in a friendly, banterish sort of way. He might call me a 'greasy, long-haired skipper' so I call him a 'chrome domed, witless oaf'.

 

[Godhead]

Mom and Dad. Unless I get upset with my Mom, then it becomes Mother.

 

[smokingplane]

I'm dutch so ma en pa for me, the dutch version of mom and dad.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I used to call my now late mother mummy up until around the age of 8 or 9 while I started calling my father dad instead of daddy a little bit earlier. I still call my old man dad nowadays. Back when my mother was alive I'd sometimes call her mummy even as a teen but that was usually when I wanted something =D

 

[RealRT]

Mom and dad. I know, original. I call my dad "father" when not talking to someone else about him.

 

[Kae]

I use their names, I've never really liked them all that much and they used to get really pissed off that I didn't call them mom and dad when I was 5, I remember my father slapping me once for it but they eventually got used to it, they still don't like it but they won't get mad or anything, I don't talk to them all that often though.

 

[clinicalPsychologist]

Mom and dad. Though funny thing I only noticed a few years back, they also call themselves mom and dad when around myself and my brother. My mom will usually revert to calling my dad by his first name in public, but otherwise when I'm around she calls him dad and he calls her mom. And I think I really like that, it's really endearing.

My parents do that too!
Only it's "Mama" and "Papa" instead of Mom and dad, but it's roughly the equivalent in Germany.I call them Mama and Papa except when I'm talking to other people about them, then it's "meine Mutter" (my mother) and "mein Vater" (my father).

 

[Malpraxis]

Mother. Father.
To them and to other people when talking about them. People find it weird, since we're stereotypically warm around here, but I always thought mom and dad sounded childish and calling them by their names sounded disrespectful.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Footman and 'Indisposed'.
I shall leave it to your own imagine as to which is which.

 

[Guffe]

Not sure if I should choose mom/dad or mother/father...
I use different languages with my mom and my dad and basically one for the other and the other for the other. Ah hell, mom/dad is what I'm going for!

When I was younger I called my dad with the name his friends called him, then when I became a teenager (or there around) I starting calling him dad. No idea why it was like that, I think I either saw him more of a friend than a parent or then it was the fact that it was a easier word than "father" and could be said faster.