What do you call your parents?

rawn

For me it's always Mam and Dad. Friend of mine calls her parents by their first names, I find it so odd. I also find it odd that it is odd, I mean, it is their names after all :rolleyes:

What dya call your parents? Anyone else that calls them by their first name? Would be curious to see

MonkstownHoop

I'm cool and hip so i call them The Rents

Cody Pomeray

Call them by their first names when I am taking the piss out of them.

It's Mam and Dad when I've broken/ burned/ lost something.

Timmyctc

Dj Daddy Jeff and M.C Mammy-kins.

rawn

Ya mean, the 'rents?

The Rents sounds like a bad movie starring Diane Keaton and Tim Allen or something

Frosty McSnowballs

Mama and papa

...and Nicole

April O Neill

Mammy and Daddy. Not even joking. I'm 29.

Vito Corleone

By their first names, occasionally "Mam".

rawn

My uncle actually calls his dad (my grandad) by his first name when he's talking about him to people, now that I think of it. Calls him da to his face cos he's he knows he'd get a clatter otherwise :P

jubella

Mam and Dad. I'd feel ridiculous calling them anything else to be honest!

rawn

Vito Corleone wrote: »

By their first names, occasionally "Mam".

Have you always called them by their first name? Why is that?

Really curious, the concept seems alien to me

Fbjm

Always been mom and dad for me.

rusty_racer94

Amma and Papa. Im a 19 year old male, and I'm sure it sounds really stupid calling them like this so it'll have to be changed soon.

Digs

Mum and papa.... although we usually affectionately call him Tones. Tooooooony Lynch....don't eat Tony he's my friend. (My dads name is Tony...in case you didn't gather that) The whole (extended) family chant this at him.

Ace Attorney

Ma and da when im with them, the auld pair when im describing them both, i dont think ive ever called either of them by their first name when addressing them tbh i think they would think that to be weird and so would i

hansfrei

Dead

HansHolzel

The majority of Mams on here is encouraging. I hate that fücking "Mum" crap.

theblaqueguy

Mummy and daddy

HansHolzel

theblaqueguy wrote: »

Mummy and daddy

Morgan, turn on the heating!

feargale

theblaqueguy wrote: »

Mummy and daddy

Apologise to Hansholzel

rawn

HansHolzel wrote: »

The majority of Mams on here is encouraging. I hate that fücking "Mum" crap.

Same. Lucky not many Irish people say it though. My friends kid is 4 and he calls her Mum, he gets it from watching Nickelodeon :mad:

LordSutch

Mum & Dad.

Several threads about this over the last few years . . .

Rasheed

The aul pair together of mammy and daddy singularly.

feargale

LordSutch wrote: »

Mum & Dad.

Several threads about this over the last few years . . .

Come here. How can you be a Lord if your father is still alive? Is your title a bogus one?

bnagrrl

I call my dad...










dad.

Vito Corleone

rawn wrote: »

Have you always called them by their first name? Why is that?

Because it's their name.

rawn

LordSutch wrote: »

Mum & Dad.

Several threads about this over the last few years . . .

I actually did search for it, just without any real effort or conviction :rolleyes:

Femme_Fatale

Mum/Mam and Dad.

Can't understand why "Mum" annoys some people so much.

LordSutch

feargale wrote: »

Come here. How can you be a Lord if your father is still alive? Is your title a bogus one?

Shush

rawn

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Because it's their name.

But but but...

I actually have no argument or reasoning as to why they should be called mam/dad or whatever. But I still find it really unsettling to call them by their names, except in jest :pac:

theblaqueguy

HansHolzel wrote: »

Morgan, turn on the heating!

The heating is on Hans

HansHolzel

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Mum/Mam and Dad.

Can't understand why "Mum" annoys some people so much.

Soapish, ad speak, very UK - except Mam is/was the norm in northern England too - but then again they are more like us than the namby pamby Southerners/Landaners.

Ihatecuddles

Mam or mother, and I call my dad by his first name which is weird!

fathead82

Call the mother mammy,dont really call the auld lad anything,if I need to get his attention,I just say "hey".
There was a mother & father & their 15 year old daughter at our house a few weeks ago,the mother kept calling the father "daddy".It was really strange. Wonder what she called him while they were doing the dirty deed.

LordSutch

I have a friend in his mid forties now, who has always called his parents by their first names. In the beginning it freaked me out a little, and I wondered was he adopted?, but no, that's just their family way, and his sister does the same thing.

I just couldn't imaging calling my parents by their first names, but each to their own I suppose.

Mum & Dad.

Femme_Fatale

HansHolzel wrote: »

Soapish, ad speak, very UK

But so what? I don't remember making a decision to call her Mum, it just happened at a very young age, so it's more natural than people give it credit for.

PizzamanIRL

HansHolzel wrote: »

Morgan, turn on the heating!

Oh Daddy!

EoghanIRL

Mum and dad.

The idea of calling them by their first name is strange to me. I'd find it rude.

siblers

I've a friend who calls his parents by their first names. I find that very odd and impersonal. I just use dad.

Teyla Emmagan

Mam and Dad. I still don't get it when I'm in a supermarket or something going 'Dad, Dad, Dad' and he doesn't realise I'm calling him. Don't know what that's all about?!

LordSutch

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Call them by their first names when I am taking the piss out of them.

It's Mam and Dad when I've broken/ burned/ lost something.

Or nicking their wine?

HansHolzel

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

But so what? I don't remember making a decision to call her Mum, it just happened at a very young age, so it's more natural than people give it credit for.

Going by my own extended family, it's a class indicator, as in it's more common among the traditional middle-class professions.

No offence intended, live and let live etc.

HansHolzel

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Mam and Dad. I still don't get it when I'm in a supermarket or something going 'Dad, Dad, Dad' and he doesn't realise I'm calling him. Don't know what that's all about?!

He doesn't fancy the paternity test?

Lots of love ;-)

kilkenny12

When i was small, i used to call them by their first names cause that's what they called each other but then a teacher told the mother it was weird so we had to start calling them ma/da.

Fuukin teacher, cause now i don't call them anything, it just feels weird.

EoghanIRL

HansHolzel wrote: »

Going by my own extended family, it's a class indicator, as in it's more common among the traditional middle-class professions.

No offence intended, live and let live etc.

No it's not . Most idiotic thing I've read today .

Ihatecuddles

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Mam and Dad. I still don't get it when I'm in a supermarket or something going 'Dad, Dad, Dad' and he doesn't realise I'm calling him. Don't know what that's all about?!

Fun filled day out for all the family in the Jeremy Kyle studio? :P

HansHolzel

EoghanIRL wrote: »

No it's not . Most idiotic thing I've read today .

How can you possibly rubbish another person's empirical experience?

Get over yourself and don't be so unmannerly.

Karl Stein

Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa. (Mum and Dad).

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

Cody Pomeray

LordSutch wrote: »

Or nicking their wine?

No, I'm an adult...

whatsthetime

rawn wrote: »

For me it's always Mam and Dad. Friend of mine calls her parents by their first names, I find it so odd. I also find it odd that it is odd, I mean, it is their names after all :rolleyes:

What dya call your parents? Anyone else that calls them by their first name? Would be curious to see

Depends on the situation, but would mostly call them by their names.

dgt

Sargent and Corporal