Poll: Calling your Parents by there First name?

[go-10]

always have always will
growing up with military parents and eventually joining the military you get costumed to calling people by their last name and the people closest to you by first name. Close friends will almost always have a nickname

I guess its sorta like in Asia

 

[dvd_72]

well I started calling my father by his first name at a very young age. Heard mom call him by his first name and I guess I sotra immitated. just feels normal.

My mother, on the other hand, I call mom. Bizzare I know

 

[Auninteligentname]

Calling your parents by their first name is unholy, and should never be done! Ok, I'm joking. However, I, always say mom and dad to my parents (mamma and pappa in norwegian). Also, for some reason, I've always called my sister; Dadda.

 

[Brandon237]

Only to get my parent's attention, as for the rest "mom" and "dad".

 

[RagnarokHybrid]

Despite how much I respect parents, I don't think there is enough power in a name for it to make a difference. For the sake of their emotions, I call them mom and dad. However, if I have kids I don't need them showing "respect" by robotically including a title. If they want to call me dad, fine. But I'm not going to punish them for not saying it. If I'm a good father, they'll remember me regardless.

 

[SwimmingRock]

I personally say it because i don't see my mother as a mother figure. Nor do i respect her enough to call her 'mum'.

It's really disrespectful to call your parents by their first name instead of an appropriate title in most cultures.

See, that's how I was raised as well. If I were to refer to my mother by her first name, I could expect a smack upside the head from my father.

Yet, upon moving to Holland I encountered people who called their parents by their first name not to show a lack of respect, but because the parents demanded it. The logic for this seems to be that 'mom' and 'dad' (or the local equivalent) are generic terms and therefor less respectfull than actual names. I don't really get this line of reasoning, but apparently there are people who live by it.

 

[Dalek Caan]

I did once call my dad by his first name. It sounded odd so know I stick to Mon and Dad.

 

[IceStar100]

only if I can't get her attition

 

[SckizoBoy]

I call my Mother by her first name and she gets quite upset when i do it. [even thou she gets my name wrong on a daily basis]. Strangely thou she won't get upset if my brother calls her by her first name.

Is your brother older, financially endowed and got a list of academic titles the length of your arm? If yes, then that's probably why... (no disrespect)

OT: No... I just call them 'Dad' and 'Mom' like any good middle class New England kid... though I occasionally call my old man 'Pops'. It also depends on the language I'm speaking, though even then, I rarely refer to my parents by name when speaking Chinese.

With us (by 'us', I mean Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, not sure about the southerners) it is a cultural thing that if you're close enough to someone, you can address them in a familial manner. Friends who aren't related at all will be addressed as 'brother/sister/aunt/uncle', so addressing a close family member by name without signifiers is actually quite cold and rude.

 

[marscentral]

I've always called my parents mum and dad, it would just feel weird to use their first names. I don't even like doing it if I'm talking to someone else.

 

[DanielBrown]

Only my father. Probably because I never knew him.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Mom's Mom and Dad's Dad, except in situations where all three of us goof off or crack jokes at each other. If I want to sound extremely appalled by something they've done (which is usually part of a joke), I use their first names.

Beyond that, when the first names come out, it's usually serious stuff. The rest of the time we use nicknames for one another, and I use Mom and Dad.

 

[MasTerHacK]

I've been calling them by their first names since I was 13.

 

[RoyalWelsh]

I have always called my folks Mam or Dad. I think it will be a little weird to call them by their first name.

 

[instantbenz]

If I'm joking around with them then, yes. Otherwise, I say mom and dad. When my mom is being crotchety or ocd I call her mother because it strikes a chord.

 

[trollnystan]

My father was the major reason I'm a basket-case today, but I still called him Dad/Daddy till he died. My mother died when I was seven but I think I'd still be calling her Mammy even now.

My four year-old nephew calls his parents by their first names occasionally, don't know why. It's kind of cute though.

 

[BringBackBuck]

You call your friends, acquaintances, or even people you just met by their first names. Surely your mother deserves something a little better to indicate she has a more special and intimate relationship with you considering she provided your genetic material, grew you, pushed you out in what was almost certainly an excruciating experience, and spent the next few years cleaning up your spew and wiping your arse.

Though clearly she did not spend enough time teaching you spelling or grammar.

*you
*parents
*their
*name

 

[floppylobster]

I wish I had have called my dad by his first name before he died. I think it would have been the final step in him seeing me as a person and not his son. Can't do it now though. Once you feel you're an adult I recommend doing it at least once.

 

[Drake666]

Since I'm from Quebec (Canada) and I'm coming from a French-speaking family, everybody's thinking I'm weird because I call my parents "dad" and "mum" (in english). I always though that sounded better then "papa" and "maman"...

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I call my Mother by her first name and she gets quite upset when i do it. [even thou she gets my name wrong on a daily basis]. Strangely thou she won't get upset if my brother calls her by her first name.

But what do you guys think about calling your parents by there first name.

I personally say it because i don't see my mother as a mother figure. Nor do i respect her enough to call her 'mum'.

I don't

Then again, I generally don't call adults by their first name unless they request that I do.