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What do your parents call each other when speaking to you?

Asked by JLeslie (65416points) December 22nd, 2015 from iPhone

On a Q a couple of weeks ago I mentioned I still sometimes call my mom mommy. Yesterday, I was talking to me dad and he referred to my mother as mommy. He said something along the lines of, “I don’t know if mommy is home.” Sometimes he says, “your mother…” It depends on the sentence and circumstance.

Obviously, with young children mommy would be very usual to use, but what about once all the kids are adults?

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Pachy's avatar

My folks, heaven bless both their souls, called each other Mom and Dad. Which I loved.

rojo's avatar

When speaking to me about each other Mom says “your Dad”, and Dad used to say “your Mom”. This is the way my wife and I do it with our kids too.
And, when speaking to each other of our parents, we use “your Mom” and “your Dad” too.

JLeslie's avatar

My dad even leaves off “your” sometimes. I do that when I speak to young children. If I’m talking to a 3 year old and she wants something I would say, “we need to check with mommy.” I wouldn’t bother with your in most cases with such a young child. I also do it with my sibling, but that makes more sense I think. Probably, most people do that.

marinelife's avatar

Your father or your mother.

filmfann's avatar

It was always Your Mother and Your Father.

kritiper's avatar

“Your Mother” and “your Father.”

majorrich's avatar

Mom always referred to Dad as “Daddy”. Dad referred to Mom as “your Mother”.
Dad is gone now. And Mom still calls him “Daddy” and thinks he’s alive. Doesn’t really know who I am.

Dutchess_III's avatar

The last time my mom spoke of my father was when she learned that he had died.
She said, “Was that that awful man I was married to for 23 years?”
I said, “Yes.”
She said, “And that was your father?”
I said, “Well, you always told us he was!”
Even in the throes of Alzheimer’s, she got the joke.

Other than that it was always, “Your mother,” and “Your father.”

When my father spoke of his parents he always said, “Mother and Dad.” It always struck me as kind of odd, like he gave special consideration, or respect or something to his mother. I’ve noticed many people from the south do that.

DominicY's avatar

“Dad” or “mom”, just like what I would call them (when I was younger, it was “daddy” or “mommy”, though my mom has a tendency to still refer to my dad as “daddy” with me and my siblings). If they were talking about their own parents, they’d say “my mom” or “my dad”, so there’s no ambiguity. And my parents have never, in my 24 years of life, used the phrases “your mother” or “your father”.

Cruiser's avatar

Dad or mom most of the time. Father or mother if I was in trouble.

JLeslie's avatar

@Dutchess_III Are you saying mother is more respectful? It always sounds less loving to me. Not in passing in a general conversation, but to address ones mother as mother to their face seems so cold. Also, to use the warmer and more informal “dad,” but more proper “mother” in the same sentence, it just sounds like the mother must have been the disciplinarian or something. I realize that could be a bad assumption, and just a matter of habit.

ragingloli's avatar

bitch and arsehole
I do not actually remember.

Zaku's avatar

Their first names, or “your dad” or “your mom”, generally.

Devilishtreat's avatar

No parents to speak about…

longgone's avatar

“Mama” and “Papa”. My dad occasionally says what would be “your mother”.

dxs's avatar

mom, dad

msh's avatar

Ask your Mom, Ask your Dad. But they answered to a lot of different calls; Mom, Ma, Mommy, Me-‘Mither, MAAAAAAA!!!!
Dad, Daddy, Pops, and Joe’s Pizza. Because he would answer the millions of our nightly calls, knowing it was another kid . It was mortifying. Then it was funny. Oh, and DAAAAAAAD!!!!
They referred to each other using their first names, regardless of kid presence.
I always really liked that.
Missing them.

Pandora's avatar

My dad would say tu mama and my dad mom would say tu papa, or pregunta papi.
We called my dad Papi or Pa, and my mother ma, or mami.
I think when we were little he would refer to her as mami, but it was so long ago. My dad passed away over 30 years ago but my mom still will refer to him as papi, or papa.

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