What do you call your mother and father?

Don   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:22 GMT
I'm curious as to what you call your mother and father, because I know that they're are some regional differences. What do you call your parents and where are you from? I'm from South Wales and I say ''Mam'' and ''Dad''.
Travis   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:35 GMT
Here, I just use "mom" and "dad"; one note though is that I generally use each term in the place of words "mother" and "father" (not just my own mother and father) on a general basis.
Llwys   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:35 GMT
Should'nt you not be calling your father 'tad' or 'nhad', clart?
Sander   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:36 GMT
Moeder = mother
Vader = Father
Mama / Ma = Mum
Papa / Pa = Dad
Travis   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:42 GMT
Llwys, ich spreche kein Walisisch.
Travis   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:45 GMT
Ignore my above post, as I for some reason had thought it was in response to my post (which it clearly was not, after rereading the first post in the thread).
andre in usa   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:47 GMT
Mother and Dad.
Gabe   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:49 GMT
When I was really little -- until probably about 7 or so, I called them "Mary" and "Tony," lol.

Then until about 13 or 14 I called them "Mommy" and "Daddy."

Now I call them "Mom" and "Dad."

Interestingly, my sister (who's 12 now) calls our mom, "Mama."
Sander   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:53 GMT
Is that strange then?
*   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 18:58 GMT
In spain is Madre and Padre. Kids say papa and mama. An adult saying papa and mama would sound very childish
Smith   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 19:03 GMT
''Should'nt you not be calling your father 'tad' or 'nhad', clart?''

Who is clart?
El C   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 19:04 GMT
I don't have any parents!
George   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 19:10 GMT
I call my parents ''Mother'' and ''Father''. Does anyone else here do the same?
zarafa   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 19:14 GMT
Most kids in the US stop calling their parents "mommy" and "daddy" as they get older, although women sometimes go on calling their fathers "daddy" forever. But in the South, it is (or was, when I lived there) fairly common for men to continue to call their fathers "daddy." "Mama (or Momma) and daddy" was very common.
Don   Tuesday, June 07, 2005, 19:18 GMT
''Most kids in the US stop calling their parents "mommy" and "daddy" as they get older''

The same here with ''mammy'' and ''daddy''.