I don't know why this popped into my mind today, but I vaguely remember hearing my parents names being spoken by someone else and they weren't Mom and Dad.

Probably as a toddler when I was hearing my parents address each other by first name.

Put the bottle away, you've had 3nough for tonight.

^^^

I have the same first name as my Dad but his name kept changing, Sergeant First Class, First Sergeant (TOP) and then Sergeant Major. Probably around 4 when I realized they had other names with all the PCSing and traveling.

We were around big extended family all the time, plus grew up in a small town where everyone knew each other, so I don’t remember ever not knowing my parents were Jim and Diana. On a funny note, my grandad was such an asshole that when my mom was a teenager, if another kid called and asked to speak to Diane, he would tell them there was nobody there by that name and hang up. Probably why my mom liked our names - they were not easily reducible to nicknames she hated.

I have young kids and still have to laugh when I have to explain to the youngest that Pop-Pop and Grandmom are MY Dad and Mom and Pops and Nana are their mom’s Dad and Mom. They always seem confused like it’s not supposed to be that way or something.

I was made aware of it early since my cousins who lived nearby called their dad by his first name always. Never heard them call him anything else, just Frank. How that started in that family I haven't a clue. I think it was just natural for the kids and it continued.

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I'm a Jr, so it was common for me to hear my dads name at least.

The one funny thing for me when I was young though was for the grandparents. On my moms side everyone called her parents grandfather/grandmother and my dads side was grandpa/grandma. So for the longest time I would just assume if someone mentioned their grandpa/ma that it meant it was their dads parents, and other way around for grandmother/father.

When I grew up, I don't really remember any of my friends having nicknames for their grandparents either, like Mimi, gamgam, papaw, and such... But nowadays it seems it's more common than not. When my older step-daughter had a baby last year they were asking what I wanted to be called, I quickly settled on "grandpa" and never budged from it.

I don’t. But, I do remember the first time I called my father by his first name…..,,

They had names?

Don't remember the age but, it was a few years before I found out they had sex.

I can't pin down any specific age. I do recall my mom and dad calling each other Mom and Dad.

Going to school in the 1960s and 70s, I can tell you I never learned the first names of any of my teachers. As far as I was concerned, their first names were Mr., Mrs., Miss and one Ms.

My mothers name was Margaret, but friends and family called her Peg. I still don't understand how you get Peg
from the name Margeret?