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What do you call your parents?? Although I am 57 y/o my momma is still my momma even at age 80. My daddy will always be my daddy and he went to be with the Lord 15 years ago.I know I have been truly blessed,but I get so upset with the way some people talk about and even abuse their parents. Mine were/are the best I Thank God for them. Hope I never take them for granted or use them as a meal ticket. Just a thought I wanted to share with all of you. Oh, by the way, they raised 8 of us 4 boys ,4 girls and we all still call them momma and daddy. God is Good. Carol

Sounds like you had terrific parents. Feel blessed, I will always call my mother mom. And be glad you got to see your parents grow old, not all of us get that blessing. My mother died in a car wreck about 11 yrs ago. I love my mother very much and as I get older I appreciate her more and wish she was still with us. And when my teenagers are being mean and nasty I wonder if I was the same way toward my mother, I bet I was, teenagers are in their own world. We all have to learn to appreciate our parents in our own way. and to realize they did the best they knew how. bye marie

39 here and I call my mom mama and my dad was always daddy. He died 5 years ago

MY PARENTS DIED WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG. MY DADDY DIED WHEN I WAS EIGHT AND MOMA DIED WHEN I WAS FIFTEEN. AND YES, PEOPLE SHOULD THINK MORE ABOUT THE WAY THEY TREAT THERE PARENTS AND TALK TO THEM. CANT TAKE THINGS BACK WHEN THERE GONE..... HUGS MARGARET

I call my parents many things. Basically when I'm talking to anyone besides my brother, my niece, and my mom and dad directly, I call them mom and dad. When I talk to my brother or my parents directly, I call them by their first names or mom is mother and I refer to my dad by a nickname that has nothing to do with fatherhood - don't know where it came from exactly. When I talk to my niece, I refer to my mom as grandma and my dad as grandpa (makes sense - huh?). I love my parents, and I know they love me, but we've been through some rough times. All of us in our family have difficulty showing affection, either physically or verbally, but emotionally, when one of us needs support, we are there. I certainly don't take them for granted because I know how lost I would be without them, and I have told them that. Strangely enough, though, after surgery, when they brought me to my room from the recovery room, I was in great pain, and I was crying, and my mom was there, and I called her mommy. I don't remember ever calling her that before, but coming out of the anesthesia could have had something to do with it . Take Care, Tanja

Carol, I have wonderful parents who taught me the value of dollar from the get go. They raised 4 girls and 3 boys we generally called them mom and dad.However now that they are grandparents and you are trying to get their attention you have to call them grammy and papa otherwise they would never answer you.My mom and Dad have been married for 37yrs. I hope to have that myself one day. Connie I do agree kids should be more respectful to their parents mine are my own little chunks of gold and I know their value.

momma will always be that and daddy will to have the add gift of step-mom and dads so that make it better they were not always the best did not always do as they should have but I do have to say I love them and dont know what I would do with out the phone calls I make when I am down and they listen or just when I want to vent they are there to listen to me I miss them so much they live far away and I dont see them much but they always know I love them love you guys shelley

Carol, I guess I am boring... they are just Mom and Dad... I don't really think I call them anything else. We are very close and I talk to them several times a week (Thank God for cell phones and free long distance). I have lived very far from them since I graduated highschool in 1987 and the older I get the harder it is to live far away (I am in Virginia and they are in Montana so it is about 2,800 miles). I hope to some day live in Montana again but who knows how life is going to go... I have been gone for 18 years and haven't made it back there to live since... the closest I was was when I lived in Washington State for 5 years and was only 200 miles away... I LOVED it... I could see them at any time!!!!! They just celebrated their 51st anniversary (last year we took them on a huge family cruise for their 50th... it makes me proud to have parents that have made it that long thru some pretty rough times!!!!) HUGS Patti

Well, I am 30 years old, and I call my Mother Mommy. I don't call my father anything because, he hasn't been in my life since the age 11. *smoochies* ~NEVER SURRENDER~ ~T~

My dad died in 1974 when I was 24 ... and I called him "Daddy" every day of my life and will always think of him that way. He'd be 87 years old now, and I love to imagine him as he would be ... still my Daddy, cute and cuddly. My mom (now 82) is "Mother", or if we're in a crowded and noisy public place it's "Mary!!" (she's hard-of-hearing and it's the only way to get her attention! LOL) I always wondered how it happened that Daddy was Daddy and Mother didn't get to be Mommy ... but that's how it turned out. **sidenote: when my kids were born, Mother said she was wayyy to young to be called GrandMa and stated she'd be a Nana, and that's who she's been to my kids all their lives. Daddy and I were very alike in personalities so we were very close and enjoyed the same humor ... Mother and I became closer after I was an adult, and grew very close after Daddy died. She's been like steel for me ... totally supportive and strong, even if she IS only 5'2" and light-weight. I think about Mother's age now, and know I've only got so much time left with her ... so I'm trying like the dickens to make every bit of it count. We lost my dad very suddenly when he was only 56 ... had a stroke while driving and crashed. I lost my older brother (he and I were close) 3 years ago when he was 53 to a massive heart attack. Facing up to the fact that life can be taken away so suddenly, makes you grateful for the time you get ... and the time you get with others. (((hugs all))) Myra