Calling parents but their first names….os it acceptable?

I love being called Mum. When he’s being stern with me my son calls me Mother.?

People get to an amazing age when their siblings and friends are no more, and there is no-one left to use their name. I know one old lady, she's a real love, everyone calls her the family names mentioned above, even if they're not related. I couldn't call her Ma or Gran, so I asked her what her name is, and I call her that!

When my son was 2 for some reason he started calling his dad by his first name

I wasn't sure about that so I didn't allow it

But looking back now I don't know why bitchy an issue

Theodora, maybe you and others were calling him by his name - in which case it seems natural that your 2 year old might copy this.

No. It would not worry me in the least, as it is my name.

I agree notspaghetti

It wouldn't bother me but when DD called DH by his first name as a joke, her MIL was quite upset

My son around 2 yrs also called me by my First name for ages.
Years later his little daughter called him by his name as well.
My Dad we always know by his first name by myself, sister and all his Grandchildren.
Not unusual in my family.

But looking back now I don't know why bitchy an issue
Autocorrect has a lot to answer for sometimes! ??

Our parents (well mainly our father) were terrible snobs and aspirational social climbers so we always called them Mummy and Daddy. When she was well over 90 our DM asked us if we wanted to call her by her first name. My sister and I immediately said no - she had been Mummy for over 60 years - how could we change that?

My father always insisted from the birth of the first grandchild however that they should know him as Pat, which was his name, of course.

Is it "acceptable"? - of course - why might it nor be?

Personally I don't like it , my cousins children called them by their Christian names ... although when messing around being playful is completely different ... like the time my son called his dad Francis ... I said its Frank he was Christened Frank ... he said he wasn't Christened Dad but I have to call it him !!! Answer for everything ? ? ?