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[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

So I was curious.  We all talk about what kinds of names we have in our family, what we would like to name a future child, what our kids names are ... but I was wondering.  What do your children call you?  What do you call your parents?  Is it regional/cultural?

When I was really young I called my parents Zim and Ter (Jim and Teri).  This was because I was the oldest and they didn't think that I would have to be taught that they were Mom and Dad.  So I called them by their given names until I was about five when my little sister started calling them Mom and Dad.

I am from Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky and most people around here call there parents Mom/Dad ... but I call my mom, Momma, not really sure why.  I just started doing it one day when I was little (probably because it annoyed her) and it just stuck.  I never called my dad, Daddy, but my little sister did when we were kids.

I was just curious!  So what do you all call your parents or get called?

EDIT: Lets add grandparents to the list!

moms side: when I was little I called my grandpa 'Baby PawPaw' because he was the smaller of the two and my grandma has always been Grandma.  My Grandpa's parents I have always called Gramps and Babsa (I couldnt pronounce Babcia - Polish for grandmother).  Only my grandma's mother was alive when I was younger and she was always Grandmother.

dads side: obviously his dad was "Big PawPaw" but now he is just Pops.  My grandma used to be GeBe (she was 'Grandma Betty) but now we just call her Grandma/Granny.  All us grandkids used to poke fun and call her Granny but now it has stuck and has become endearing.

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[happysaid.livejournal.com]

I call them dad & ma/mom/once in a while mommie dearest lol. My son (4) calls me mama or mommy. We live in PA.

[apathykisses.livejournal.com]

I call my mom that too, she hates it! lol

[stella-di-morte.livejournal.com]

Before English became the main language spoken in the house (I'm Mexican), I called my mom and dad "Ma" and "Pa." Sometimes "Mami" for my mom.

I went through a brief stint of calling her mother, or momma, and nowadays I just call her mommy.

My brother, who's 15, calls her "Mum", and my 6 year-old sister calls her "mom."

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I've called my parents Mom and Dad for as long as I can remember. I hope my kids, should I have any, will call me the same.

I was born in Kansas. Also lived in Florida, Colorado, and Indiana while growing up.

[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

my parents would always freak out when people overheard me calling them Jim and Teri - and they would get so many looks when I would introduce them in preschool. they kept trying to get me to call them Mom and Dad - but in my young person head I didnt understand why they wanted me to call them something that wasn't their name!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I call my parents Mum and Dad. Not very exciting, haha. I'm from Southwestern Ontario, Canada.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

Mom and Dad. Pretty boring. If we are writing down their names like for gifts, I call my mom Mommee. It's an inside joke because my sister spells her name Mandee, so we add EE instead of Y for things.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

My son, who just turned 2, recently started calling us Daddy and Mommy. We still call usually ourselves Mama and Dada (how he used to say it) to him, so I guess he just picked that up on his own.

I call my parents Mom and Dad, and when I was little I would've said Mommy and Daddy. I'd only ever say Mother if I was referring to her when talking to someone else, although I don't think I ever use Father.

I think Mom and Dad are pretty typical American. I haven't really heard anyone call their parents anything else. What people call their grandparents is where it can get interesting!

[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

I agree, Mom and Dad are typical. I notice though that second/third generation Americans are more likely to have names for their parents/grandparents that reflect the 'old country'. I am a second generation American and I call my grandma a butchered version of Babcia (which is Polish).

[wolfbane.livejournal.com]

I have always called my mother Zosie, not sure why or what it means. It was just a nonsense nickname that I made up when I was little and it's always stuck. I vary between that and Mom. I call my father Dad, or sometimes Fatherly One when I'm being silly. My moms' parents are/were Grampy and Grandma, and my dads' parents are/were Nana and Grampy. My mom asked the grandparents what they would prefer to be called and that is what I called them growing up.

[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

My grandma always says that she tried to get me to call her Nona which is what she called her grandmother but I insisted on GeBe.

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

My brother and I call our parents a mish-mash of things. We're of Italian, German, and Irish descent, so while we say Mom/Dad, we also call our mom Madre or Mutti and our dad Padre or Vati. Recently, I've gotten in the habit of saying Mother when my mom's acting crazy. And my bro still calls her Mama sometimes. Ahaha.

Rambled a bit. We're from NY.

[frost.livejournal.com]

I call my parents Mom and Dad. I use Daddy, too- usually when we're joking around and I need to whine at him to stop or when I call for him across the house.

Hmmm...I used to use Mum sometimes, but we no longer live in England so it has been phased out.

My brothers call them Mom and Dad. My half-brother, my mom's latest, calls her Mama.
My grandparents are just Grandpa/Grandma [insert name here].

[sal_amanda]

I guess I was pretty boring growing up. My parents have always been Mom and Dad and both sets of grandparents have always been Grandma and Grandpa. We would identify them by their last initial. The set of grandparents that my husband's really close to are Grandmom and Granddad.

My daughter is a little different. Both grandmothers are Grandma, but my dad is Papa, I guess because she couldn't really pronounce Grandpa and he's the one that lives closest to us so she had to say his name more often. She also likes to just generally be silly and add syllables and words and change things up. So for the most part, we're Mommy and Daddy, but sometimes I'm Mimi or Mommy Moomy or something similar and sometimes my husband is something like Daddy Doodoo. She's a goof.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I'm 21 and I still call my parents silly names on occasion? ;-)

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

When I was really little I used Mommy and Daddy, but now they're just Mom and Dad. And all of my grandparents on both sides were Grandma and Grandpa (though the pronunciation came out more like Gramma and Grampa). However, I knew a LOT of people who called their grandmothers Nana. I'm originally from the Midwest, by the way.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Oh, I should add that I occasionally call my mom "Mother"...but only when she's irritating me. :)

[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

oh same. she is Mother when she is being irritating but... if I am really made at her I call her Teresa (not Teresa but Taraysaaaaaa) because it makes her so angry.

[lilmizmombassa.livejournal.com]

This thread really interests me, actually. I have a friend from backwoods North Carolina that calls her parents Mama and Daddy, and I just chalked it up to where she was raised, but I'm seeing that it may not be the case.

I call my parents Mom and Dad. I think when I was little I called them Mommy and Daddy, but i'm not sure on that one. My dad's parents are Granma and Granpa, which I know is different because of the "D", but my granma always says we don't call her "grand-ma", instead we skip the D entirely when we say it so shouldn't she spell it like that? My mom's parents are my Nanny and Poppy, which is different and fairly uncommon to have grandparents called that in my area, Southern New York State.

[b-gum.livejournal.com]

i called my mom "mom" and dad "dad"... pretty typical :) i had grandma Dot and Papa (prounoucned peh-paw) Lyle, and on my dad's side i had Grandma Harned - why i called her by her last name i'm not sure. they originally tried to get us grandkids to call my grandma Dot "mamaw" (pronounced meh-maw) but we already called my grand grandma "mawmaw" - it was too close and caused too much confusion when we couldn't hardly talk yet anyway - lol!

my neighbors (basically my extended family) calls the grandparents in the family "gong gong" and "pong pong"... honestly, not sure where it comes from. whenever my dad hears it he goes nuts though... the other day he was like "a grandchild of mine will never refer to me as 'gong gong!'" I said "of course not! you'd be 'pong pong!' gong is the feminine version of pong, silly!" ;)

[b-gum.livejournal.com]

o! we're in KY, btw

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Mother = Mum
Father = Dad
Paternal grandparents = Grandma & Grandad
Maternal grandmother (and her SO) = Nan & Don (as little kids we called her Nanny. And yes Don is his first name.)

My parents have requested that they be called Nanny/Nan & Grandad by their [hypothetical] grandchildren. I'd prefer Mummy/mum, Mama, or Sage from said offspring; but will see how it goes.

I'm British. :)

[mrssubee.livejournal.com]

nothing unusual mom and dad
my daughter (preschool age)though usually calls me Mama
she calls her grandparents Nana, Papa(my parents), Saba, Savta (Hebrew)

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Mostly I call my parents Mom and Dad, occasionally Mama and Daddy. My mom's parents and my dad's dad died before I was born, and my dad's mom died when I was 3. I just call them "Grandma Peggy(mom's)/Helen(dad's)" and "Grandpa Craig(mom's)/Sidney(dad's)" if I talk about them at all. I almost never mention my mom's parents because I know next to nothing about them. I was born, raised, and currently reside in Georgia; my parents and grandparents are/were from New York.

I think when/if I have kids my parents will just be Grandma Ann and Grandpa Paul, although I joke with them that my kids will call them GrandmAnn and GrandPaul because they hate names like "Maw-maw & Paw-paw" and "Nana & Poppy" (which is what my ex called his grandparents). My mom's absolute least favorite is "Me-maw" which is what my sister's friend Christopher called his grandmother. It used to drive my mom crazy.

[b-gum.livejournal.com]

I think when/if I have kids my parents will just be Grandma Ann and Grandpa Paul, although I joke with them that my kids will call them GrandmAnn and GrandPaul

hehe - cute!

it took me reading this sentence three times to finally stop pronouncing "Grandpa Paul" as "Gran Puh-Paw" in my head. :) i could see that being a tricky pronounication for little tongues :)

[purple-dragon88.livejournal.com]

I call my parents mum (we're English) and dad, dad was my first word. I call my maternal grandmother Nanny and I called my maternal grandfather Grandpa and my paternal grandfather Grandpa Lastname.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

My parents are Mom (pronounced Mum) and Dad. Sometimes Mommy, even now, but NEVER Daddy. He would never answer if you called him that hehe.

Paternal grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa, maternal ones are Oma and Opa. When my great-grandmother was alive, she was Granny.

[fangirlism]

My parents have always been Mom/Mommy, or Dad/Daddy. Sometimes Momma because that's what my stepdad calls her when referring to her to us. I didn't catch on, but my sisters sometimes call our dad Papi/Papito to be silly.

My paterntal grandparents are Grampa Bob and Granny Ronnie, and my maternal grandfather was Grampa Hal. But I never used my maternal grandmother's first name. None of my cousins did. My older cousins (all her grandkids from her kids with first husband) called her Grandma, and then me, my sisters, and my younger cousins (all her grandkids from her kids with her second husband) called her Nanny.

I'm from CA/AZ.

Edit: Also, I don't have kids yet. I haven't thought about what they'd call me/my parents. As much as I think about it, that's one bridge I'll cross when I get to it.

[gipro2003.livejournal.com]

Mine have always been Mutti/Mother and Dad/Daddy. (My mother is German and my father is American.)

My grandparents on the German side are Oma/Omi and Opa, and Grandma and Grandpa on the America. My German great-grandparents have interesting names: Tic Tac (in German great-grandma is uhr-grossmutter and Uhr translates to Clock, so we call her the sound a clock makes: Tick Tock haha.) and Baps. (Not sure why we call him that.)

[itzsolastsummer.livejournal.com]

generally, i call my parents are mama and daddy. but from when i was about 12-present, i've called my dad arnie more than anything else, after the character from what's eating gilbert grape.

my maternal grandparents are grandma & pop-pop, but right before my pop-pop died i got into a bad habit of calling him eugene, just because he responded to that more frequently. my paternal grandparents are grams and pal. not sure why though, my older 2 cousins called them that. my pal didn't want to feel old and hated when we called him grandpa and when i was little, i called grams "grumps" because she was always cranky haha.

and i'm from long island, ny.

[greyhowl.livejournal.com]

I call my parents Mom & Dad.

My youngest son (17 months) calls me Ma-ma and my 3 year old calls me Mom, Kay (my name) and Gem (what my husband calls me). He will also call his dad, Dad or Jacob. We think it's cute when he calls us by name...and it's a good thing to know!

My kids have 4 sets of grandparents...they are
Nanny & Poppy
Bubbi & Zaida (jewish)
Grandma and Grandpa
Vuvu & Vovo (phonetically written, portuguese)


I called my Grandparents Nanny & Grandpa (I only had one set of grandparents growing up)

[apathykisses.livejournal.com]

Mom/Mum/Mummy and Dad, who sometimes gets called Pops. My grandparents were always Grandma/Gma and Grandpa/Gramps.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

Mom and Dad have been the names for as long as I remember.

As for grandparents:
Maternally it's Grandma and Grandpa.
Paternally it's Pop Pop and GrammaMerle (Her name is Merle, but I always say it like it's one word).

For more extended family, i.e. aunts and uncles: maternally it's always Aunt/Uncle nick name (Jenny, Bobby etc) paternally it's Auntie fullname.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

Oh - and I was raised in Connecticut and Westchester NY, but all the rest of my family is in NJ.