Poll: Calling your Parents by there First name?
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I call my Dad "Dad". I call my mother by her first name.
Same reason as OP.
I think it can be fine if you're either a) an adult (or close to; like 16/17), b) a hippy, or c) not treated like their child so much as a person they live with and look after.
Same reason as OP.
I think it can be fine if you're either a) an adult (or close to; like 16/17), b) a hippy, or c) not treated like their child so much as a person they live with and look after.
Kinda reminds me of this, about 1:00 in...mysecondlife said:
OT: Nah, it's Mum and Dad for me. I call Mum "Mother" if I want something or if she's being particularly annoying. I have used their names on a handful of occasions but only to be annoying in return or to make a bad joke.
I can honestly say I don't think I've ever called my parents by their first names. The only time I need to use their names is when I'm talking to someone else outside of the three of us. So, I use Mom and Dad with them, and even with my roommate, and with her, it's just "So, I talked to Mom today," or "Well, Dad's being stupid again," because she's practically family and does the same to me.
When I'm hanging around like...aunts and uncles, or strangers, then I use their first names. But even then, with aunts and uncles, it can occassionally be "my mom."
When I'm hanging around like...aunts and uncles, or strangers, then I use their first names. But even then, with aunts and uncles, it can occassionally be "my mom."
Nope, but I don't call a lot of people by their first name. I even refer to some of my friends by their surnames, so yeah.
It sounds weird to even say their name- Angelo and Iris? Seriously, it's weird even to write.
Still, I guess that it's an habit rather than some kind of respect- I have spent all my childhood calling them "mamma" and "papà", after all, to stop going with those nicknames would be an hassle.
When I'm angry at my mother I go with "mammina" ("Mommy"). It does get across the anger pretty well.
It sounds weird to even say their name- Angelo and Iris? Seriously, it's weird even to write.
Still, I guess that it's an habit rather than some kind of respect- I have spent all my childhood calling them "mamma" and "papà", after all, to stop going with those nicknames would be an hassle.
When I'm angry at my mother I go with "mammina" ("Mommy"). It does get across the anger pretty well.
No, it seems disrespectful to me. Honestly I more often ADDRESSED my parents as 'sir' and 'ma'am'. I might call them by their first names when introducing them or when i was a janitor at the steel mill my dad worked at... that was weird. Especially since my oldest brother has the same name as my dad. (though my brother has almost always gone by KJ)
Step-parents you get when you're over a certain age, i can see that making sense, though I never had any.
Step-parents you get when you're over a certain age, i can see that making sense, though I never had any.
Nope, never. Call me old fashioned (in this instance alone) but I think it's pretty disrespectful to adress them by their first name and just...rather wierd too, I don't really get why you would unless you were intentially trying to irk them.
