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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I (and our siblings)  - call our parents - Mummy and Papa.   We are in our 50s and our siblings range in age from late 40s to early 60s. My ILs and parents are in their 70s to 80s.

My kids call me - Mom. Mumma or Ma.    They call DH - Dad or Daddy.  They are in their teens and twenties. [/quote]

Are you European?[/quote]

No. Indian.

But it must be the remnant of the British colonial influence and also us being bilingual and speaking English.  My grandparents were called - Ma-ji and Pita-ji,  Amma-ji and Babu-ji  (ji/jee is just to denote respect) by my parents. So that was very much in keeping with Hindi speaking Indians.

I think if we would have remained in India, my kids would have called me Mom, Mumma, Ma and Mummy.  My husband would have been called Dad, Daddy and Papa. It would be a mixture of everything they know and hear because of globalization.  I remember growing up I used to sometime call my mom "Ammi" which was what my Muslim best friend called her own mom.  Or "Ammi Jaan"  which was sweeter still because Ammi means Mother and Jaan means Heart.  [/quote]

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