How do you call your parents?

Here in the Philippines, it is not uncommon for people to call their parents, mommy and daddy because of foreign influences like American. We were also colonized by the Spanish for over 300 years so some people, may call their parents, mama and papa with the second syllables stressed out. Of course, the mama and papa addresses to parents with the stress on the first syllables are also commonly used. But if you ask me what the native Tagalog terms for parents are: for dads, it's 'Tatay' and for moms, it's 'Nanay'. That's how I also address my own parents. But with my parents in-laws, I call them mama and papa (with stress on the first syllable) because that's how my husband call them.

I call my mother "mom". Typically my father and I don't speak. So often I don't call him anything. But if the ocassion arises I call my father "dad".

In my country, Philippines, we used to have the tagalog version of mom & dad, it's "nanay or nay" (mom) & "tatay or tay" (dad). Some usually use mama & papa or mommy & daddy.

I call my mom- "mama" and my dad- "papa" …or sometimes "ma" or "pa" for short :)

We have different names for parents here in the Philippines. We call our mother "nanay" and our father "tatay". From those words came other names for mothers such as "inay", "inang" or "nanang" and for fathers such as "itay", "itang" or "tatang". It is also common to hear people calling their parents mommy/daddy, mom/dad, mama/papa or ma/pa. For me, I call my father "tatay" and daddy. Sometimes I call him "Dadye" when I'm asking a favor from him. I call my mother "nanay" and mommy or "Momye" when I want to be sweet to her. .

I call my parents - mommy and daddy, or mom and dad. But here in the Philippines, parents are called nanay or inay for mothers, and tatay and itay for fathers.

i call them by Papa and ma. in our country also we respect parents. we do not call them at all by names.

I call them Mama and Papa. When I talk about them in discussions or with someone I call them mom and dad....There are times when I look for them when my other bros and sisters are around I ask where is ama (stands for father) and Ina (stands for mother). My husband calls his parents Nanay (Mother) and Tatay (Father)..Our kids call us mama and papa as well. I live in the Philippines and here we also have great respect to our parents and the elders.

I have always called my parents mom and dad. I have also called my mom by her first name. LOL Not out of disrespect, but because we were in a store and had separated and when I got back towards her I called out to my mom to get her attention. As that didn't work, I called her by her name. It worked like a charm! LOL She turned around and we both had a good laugh. LOL I've recently also started calling my mom, mommy, when I haven't spoken or seen her in a while, but I have to be in a silly mood to do it. I am a grown woman after all! LOL

Well i cud never call my parents by their names .I personally refer my mom as mommy and dad as papa. My son who is almost near to 3 yrs old also calls me mommy and hid dad papa too.

I've always called my parents mom and dad. It's not really me-like to say "mommy." But sometimes when I'm being silly I call my mom mama or maw-maw or something. xD

manya pearl I always called my mother mom and my dad daddy even after I grew up and my grandfather who I loved dearly was grandpa

I call my parents Maa and Papa. This is in my native language Konkani. This is ver similar to the common usage world wide

here in our country, Philippines, we call our parents in different way, our mother as inay, nanay, ma, mommy/mom, mama... our father as, pa, daddy/dad, papa, tatay, itay. but no matter what we call them we have to respect them.

i call my mother as mommy and nanay(mother in english) and dada for my father and tatay(father in english):-)

I use to call my mother as mummy and my father as papa.But when I am in a cool mood I use call my mother as ma or mumma.LOL.:)

hum,in our country,we call our parents as "baba" and "mama",how kind they sound like!

of course mama and papa !i think it's comman in the word!also the common language!

i called my parents mommy and daddy, of course because of the western influences. but now, i let our son call us "tatay" for me as his father and "nanay" for my wife as his mother. it sounded more sweeter for us, than the western counterpart.

i call my mom - "nanay" [filipino for mother] and my dad - "tatay" [father]. :)