Did / Do You Call Your Parents By The First Name?

[barney15c]

Considered by many to be a bit taboo, personally i never have and wouldn't , but that because of the generation i belong to.
However i have heard younger people do it, and was a bit uncomfortable about it if i am honest.

[Denton]

In the North East it is generally MAM and Dad.

[-SharonA-]

My youngest winds me up by calling me mother!!

[chrissa1]

Never!

[DarceyK123]

My sister in law who's 60 still calls hers Mummy & Daddy.

[kvalidir]

I call my Mum and Dad, Mum and Dad, unless we're anywhere for business purposes then I used their first names generally, but my mother calls her mother by her first name, no idea why really, they just do and both are close and neither seems to find it weird or disrespectful or have an issue with it.

[Jackdaw33]

As Denton says, when I was little it was Mammy and Daddy. Later it was Mam and Dad.

[jno]

just mum and dad, though I can't see what respectful has to do with it. It's just because mamamama and dadadada are the first sounds we make, it's nothing holy. If jno jnr should want to call us by our first names, he's welcome.

Slightly different question: how does your partner refer to you when speaking to the kids? Is it "Dad says it's going to rain" or "Pete says it's going to rain"? In other words, do you use your name for your husband (or wife), or your kids' name for them?

[david small]

Never, it would have been disrespectful. Always Mom and Dad.

[woofgang]

The adult sons of my best friend have called me (and my late husband) by our first names ever since they could talk and the oldest is now 30. His toddler daughter also calls me by my first name. They certainly aren't (and never have been) disrespectful. I don't think its anything to do with respect or disrespect.

[cassa333]

Always mum and dad and I’m 55?

[dannyk13]

Never

[Rockrose]

My mother yes, because I had a very strained relationship with her all my life but I only called her by her first name after I turned 21.
My father will always be daddy.

[hereIam]

Always Mum and Dad and I would have felt disrespectful calling them by their first names. One of my uncles used to call his Mum (my Nan) by her first name and I never liked it and neither did she ...