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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the thread about referring to parents as "Mom" and "Dad" when talking to others, someone posted:

[quote]This is a totally different subject but I just generally dislike the idea of calling ILs "mom and dad". I have never and will never call my ILs this -- they are not my parents and I think it's useful for everyone, including me, to remember that. I don't really care what other people do but I personally think it would be very weird in my own life. [/quote]

How do you feel about this? Do you call your in-laws Mom & Dad? Do/will you want your kids SOs to call you Mom or Dad? How old are you, and do you think your answer is generation-dependent?

I'm in my mid-fifties, and my DH is in his late fifties, and DH has always called my parents Mom & Dad (my dad has since passed). He's closer to my side of the family than to his own. I generally skirted the issue by calling his parents Grandpop & Grandmom, but now that DH's parents are in their nineties, I refer to them as Mom and Dad.

I'm a new mother-in-law, and I've let my son-in-law know that he is welcome to call us Mom & Dad, but no pressure. We sign things from Mom & Dad. I've heard my daughter's new mother-in-law refer to herself as Mom, which is fine by me. 
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Of course I call my ILs mom and dad! What a question! Who else will I call 'mom and dad', if not my parents and ILs?  [/quote]

x1000  Exactly![/quote]

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