mama, mommy, nanay?

Well I call my mother : mama or mammie (pronounced Ma'am with an E), or mom. I don't see my father. I call my grandmother Granny or Mama and my grandfather Grandaddy. When I was young I was told to call them granny and grandaddy because they felt that grandma and grandpa was to old! lol! Have a wonderful and lovely day.

Hello checapricorn, I called my parents 'father and mother' in our own mother tongue language. When I first gave birth, I decided that I want my son to call me 'Mummy' and to call his father 'Daddy'. Throughout the stages, he keeps calling his Daddy with different names- Daddy, Dad, Papa and sometimes Dear (he imitates me!) And right now he loves to call me even shorter - Ami (a short form of Mummy, I guess...)

I call my mother momma and my dad daddy or dad. I feel like it is disrespectful to call my parents by their first name.

well most of the people or kids here also call their parents mummy and daddy. there are a rare few whom i have heard calling their parents mom and dad. well, it's quite rare at my place here anyway. others also call them in their own language as aama (mom) and baba (dad).

hello friend. well for me i call my mother nay, my father tay, my grand father lolo my grand mother lola. but some of my grand mother we call them inay with there names at the end. like inay baket.

I call my mother, Inay, and my father, Tatay. That is I am told to call them from the moment I learned to speak. Actually, the "Nanay" is the most common Filipino term for mother. I don't know where Inay came from. And we call our grandparents "Nanay and Mamay" while most commonly they are referred to as "Lolo and Lola". I don't really know why. But I know, calling our parents this way shows our respect for them. Have a nice day!

in my family, we should adore parents more, i think more than western people cause the root of my herritage is javanesse palace culture which means parents being frightened by their children and each word that they said become rules in family without "NO' option seeing this matter, so we should call our parents as mother and father and must obey any word of them although they were wrong. however, if later on i have children, i will try to be more democratize with them although i don't allow them to call me as my name. at least they should call me "mom" and their father with "dad"

i call my parents mommy and daddy... we had been taught since we are a child to call them like that... so me and my 2 brothers call our parents like that... for me, i would like to be called mama when i become a mum in the future... hopefully, i will become one soon... take care and have a nice day...

I try not to call her anything, I speak to her directly, if I talk to my sister I will call her mamam to my sister because my sister if french.

i call my mom "mi" (mee) short for mommy. :) we all call her that, both my brothers and i. :D

hi dear u r right , people call their parents differnt, again its culture, language and norms of society i called my father a "Abbu jee" and my mother as "Ammi jee" while my younger sis call my father as "baba" My son call me as "baba" but all matter is respect and love

It is funny how people differ in what they call their parents. I call my mother mom and my fathher dad. My husband calls his mom Ma and his dad Pop. My kids call us mom and dad. Mom said at one time I called her by her given name. She said she believed it was because everyone else called her that.

Hmm, I call my parents as nanay and tatay, Filipino version of mother and father. No other reasons behind it, it's just that it's very common in our place and were used to it. However, I call my grandparents as papa and mama and my great grandparents when they were alive as lolo and lola. :D

hi checapricorn, i call my mother mum, and my father dad.

I call my mother momma, mommy, and mom. I call my dad either daddy or dad. It's what I have always called them. My kids call my mom nany and my dad papa. I'm not really sure how that started other than it was easier for them to say when they were younger and it just stuck.

I call my mother "mama or ma" and my father "papa" ^_^ I can't really call them by their first names hahah ill get a slap if i do *_* For me respect to them is the best thing I could only show and let them feel they are much appreciated for every single thing they have done for me ^_^

i called them mama and papa too..while my kids called me as "omma" a korean name for mom and "appa" for my husband or dad.

In Bulacan, Philippines, my cousins and my parents call their moms Inang, and their father Tatang or Amang.My parents are city dwellers already..I tried to call them the same way but my mom did not like it so I call them Papa and Mommy

when i'm talking about my mama, i call her mama. when i'm talking to her, i call her mom.

well i do agree with u.its bad manners and might affect the way our children's behaviour to us.if v call ou parents by names its shamefull and in front of our kids v should never do it as they might start to do the same to us .and their excuse would be very honest and true"u called ur parents like that too".so i think v should respect our parents and call them with respect .i myself call my mom as "momy" and dad as "papa".i india its very common to cal dad "papa" and mom as "momy".thank u.