Tell me what do you call your parents?

[Clairity]

When I refer to my parents, it's mom and dad.. but when I speak directly to them.. it's mama and daddy. I'm from Iowa originally so it may be a midwestern, girl thing. What do you call your parents when you're speaking to them. Please select only one word for each parent and those who don't speak English to your parents, please try to find the closest English word.

[apachama]

Mum and dad to them. Sometimes "my mother" or "my father" in conversation.

[Marvo]

Mom and dad, in all situations. Mother and father are kinda lame words in danish and they are hardly used.

[Man of Steel]

When I refer to my parents, it's mom and dad.. but when I speak directly to them.. it's mama and daddy. I'm from Iowa originally so it may be a midwestern, girl thing. It's not just a midwestern girl thing, I'm the same way. Mama and Daddy in person, usually reference them as my parents or my mother or father in conversation to someone else. It's a southern thing too.

[Kushna Mufeed]

I call my mom 'Mama' and I call my dad 'Baba'. I don't tend to use those when referring to them in conversation, though.

[ThePhobiaViewed]

I've always called my mom mummy and my dad deed. My mom is mummy because thats what she called her mom so I guess thats what I was taught to call her and deed was probably because I couldn't say dad correctly or something when I was young and I just never changed that. I don't talk to them much anymore and if I do I usually don't call them anything. When I talk about them in conversation its always just mom and dad.

[marlie]

I call my mother ma and my dad just dad but in say a birthday or fathers day card and sometimes when talk to him i call him raymondo ( his names raymond and i added the o when i was like 5 and it stuck) when talkin to others i refer to them as ma and dad.

[Techno]

I call my dad 'Tati', which is the Romanian word for dad, and I used to call my mom "Mami", which os pretty much the Romanian way of saying it.

[Ryles]

Mom & Dad for me. Maybe when I was way little it was something else, but not in a long time.

[kichu]

I guess the relationship i have with my parents isn't exactly what you'd call close. Oh, I see. Ok, well that makes a little more sense. Sorry. The whole title thing sickens me, no offence. Might as well address people by their actual names. And I do understand the idea that people should just call people by their names. Well, I understand someone not being close to their parents and feeling that way anyway.