Mum/Dad

[InstantDestiny]

Just was thinking how weird it is that we never stop referring to our parents as mum/dad.

I have three adult children and they will never call me.by my Christian name.

Wonder where it stems from.

My kids called me by my Christian name for the whole oc their childhood! It was only in their teens they started calling us mum and dad.

My mum calls her parents by their first names. I think it varies so much family to family, there’s no ‘common’ way.

My friend told her son, an only child, in his late teens that he could, if he preferred, call her by her first name, and was rather touched by his answer; "anybody who knows you can call you "Maggie", but I', the only person in the world who has the right to call you "Mum".
Big old softie that he is.

That’s so lovely

it's really disrespectful in both mine and husbands family to call your parents by their first name. i just can't imagine calling my mother by her first name

I have three adult children and they will never call me by my Christian name.

Because you are their mum? You don't stop being their mum just because they are grown up.

My DH calls his Mum by her first name but in a jokey way, not all the time.

I wouldn’t want my DC to call me my first name, they know how much I hate it anyway. I am their Mum and they can call me Mum.

Mine call me mama they are adults. It's their choice

Different strokes for different folks! We always alternated as in her name in person her title , mum, in cards.

Her mum did the same , as did her mum. My great grandmother used to say I am "her name" first. All were very much engaged and loving mum's.

Just wondering if you can explain why it's disrespectful? I alternate as do my children to me, it's never been something I've considered and now I think about it I can't see how it would indicate a lack of respect.

My grandad called his parents by their first names back in the day when he started working at the same shipyard as his Dad. That was a long time ago mind. I worked with my Dad briefly and called him by his first name at work but it was very odd!

I've never met anyone who calls their parents by their names

Never thought of calling my parents by their first names, they're my parents and will forever be known by mother/father, mummy/daddy depending on mood. Calling them anything else would feel odd.

Just like my grandparents were always Granny and Grandpa.

When I spoke at my DF funeral, my opening line was that I was the only person in the world privileged enough to call him Dad (I'm an OC). I could never imagine my DD calling me "Julie"